Unsupported Speculation

March 26, 2024

The Delayed Origins of Bronze

Before the Bronze Age, people lived in the Copper Age. The problem with copper is that the metal was too soft to use for weapons or for farming tools. What the people back then really needed were plows, but copper was too soft to make them, and thus when they attempted to drag a plow Continue reading

Metallurgy

Agriculture, bronze, Bronze Age, copper
March 26, 2024

The Preponderance of Russian Gimbal-less FLIR Systems

One rather interesting thing about Russian FLIR systems on their aircraft is that they tend to only point forwards, and that they do not tend to be the gimbal types used by western aerial platforms. The reason isn’t necessarily because of ‘Protected Gimbal Technology’ that the West is guarding jealously from Russia, but instead a Continue reading

military

aviation, russia, technology, ukraine, war
March 25, 2024

Brief Comment on Zen Buddhism

I meditated everyday for five years while facing a wall in sessions lasting approximately 40 minutes a day, and for much of the first two years would often meditate twice a day as well. My opinion on Zen Buddhism is that no matter how long you sit, nothing will happen. There is no enlightenment whatsoever, Continue reading

spirituality

buddhism, enlightenment, meditation, zen

“Some blessing in it lives; it heals
Through words’ harmonious sounds.”

–Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

About Me

Former crewmember of a maritime service, who after leaving ages ago, taught myself to program in Python and code rubbish encryption scripts. I’ll pontificate to any unfortunate soul I capture on the finer points of hydration and a proper diet. I also exercise like a demon, listen to amapiano music, and spend way too much time on the internet looking at only the very best stuff.

Started writing over a decade ago, and gradually fell ill to a deadly and little-known variant of writer’s disease, when the writer begins to care less and less about whether anything he writes is actually true. After eventually losing my battle, I now write about basically anything I want to.

“Don’t get it right, just get it written.”

– James Thurber

The Delayed Origins of Bronze

The Preponderance of Russian Gimbal-less FLIR Systems

Brief Comment on Zen Buddhism