Monthly Archives: October 2019

The new, fancy-dancy modern version. And the original, of my 1977 youth. A nice approach, here!

Just a visual guide for Referees, describing the sky in certain situations.

Just picking up a few ideas from LewRockwell’s The Fascist Threat, delivered by Doug Casey in 2011. In the meantime, almost everyone has forgotten that there are many other colors of socialism, not all of them obviously left wing. Fascism … Continue reading →

Because we believe all power and authority is Christ’s, we seek freedom from the tyranny of men, whether wicked or righteous. The Christian and the Cultural Wars by Mark R. Rushdoony Augustus, Reborn One interesting way to envision the Imperium … Continue reading →

This would make a good backstory/origin story for a PC. (Don’t get hooked on the series, as it stops at 12/25, last release in 2017.)

As Travellers are often trying to get a grip in new situations, they are especially vulnerable to scams. And usually, the local officials just blow it off: “Who cares about some powerless visitor without any local pull or protectors?” Behold, … Continue reading →

Fascinating! And the kind of knowledge that separates ordinary Travellers (“Tourists… in… SPAAACCCEEEE!!!!”) from the Traveller Lifers (“You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it.”) Extras CGP insights. The video that started it all. Aside: … Continue reading →

I had always thought that “dressed in sack cloth” was a strictly Biblical thing (not even medieval!), but this interesting article about depression-era clothing broadened my mind. Poor women & country women especially made use of the sack cloth in … Continue reading →

So, if you want to talk about a wildly wealthy Imperial Noble and the private planet he owns, you can start here. Just scale everything up to the interstellar scale. You know: almost uninhabited, kilometre-wide arcologies… entire islands covered with … Continue reading →

The folks at Uncommon Descent gave a post about hyperreal numbers, as an alternate way to do calculus. It’s easier to use, more natural, and so can open up more math to more people: a good thing! I find the … Continue reading →