They have about forty oil refineries. Haven’t been counting but I think they hit at least ten by now, and the one most recent accounted for a full 10% of production. Built with irreplaceable Western technology and software. In other news, a nation effectively without a navy has driven the russian navy out of the black sea and sevastopol with small sea drones, sinking many ships, and can freely export grain and prevented the weaponization of food inflation, crisis, and famine by russia all over the world.
Category: writing
“The Predator in the Darkness” an unrevised creative nonfiction paper about mountain lions
I would like to say that I had an encounter with a mountain lion, but in truth, I can’t say what it was. I think the beast was within about 10 feet of me, 20 at the most, but I never saw a thing. I was sitting by a campfire, alone, in a dark forest […]
Purge: from 1100 posts to 121
I’m updating and improving my blog. A lot of that so far has consisted of purging the archives of poor posts (and many reblogs and others that looked like I didn’t mean to post them at all). I’ve also edited a few dozen of my posts, and kept maybe a couple dozen reblogs. That which […]
Is what we do in service of our true desires? When and how do we reassess?
A post on what I’ve gained from blogging, and what it has failed to give me. And on the challenge of investing time and energy in well-defined plans with endless distractions so easy to come by.
A note on the utility of gender-free pronouns in literature
Consider the phrase “the Raven of Stars begins xyr dance” which is what I was writing (for the Discordian Postcard Conspiracy) the first time I decided I required a multiple genderless possessive. In my case, I wanted to specify that despite being a ‘the’ the Raven of Stars was not-singular yet not-separated entities, and also that […]
Must Reads or Junk?
IMG::: http://sumthinblue.com/house-of-leaves/ Don’t close tabs and minify windows.. Copy all into a .txt – Trying to close without copy, Ever a spiral of distraction Let be let be let be let do See if, at the end, you have a ‘MUST READS!!!’ section? Or was it a lot of junk? MUST READS , polish the […]
Steps to Philosophy, Steps to the Central Loop of Human Concepts
An interesting wikipedia clade: “Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article that isn’t in parentheses or italic, and then repeat, you will eventually end up in “Philosophy”. from the mouseover text of http://xkcd.com/903/ which the picture for I can’t post for some reason. I find this fascinating and […]
Lost in Mist 