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Odysseus, Faust, Hannibal Lecter, and Reverse Meanings
“All that glisters is not gold“ – William Shakespeare I have this funny idea that the previous centuries and even the ancient world, used to warn of a type of vanity by describing how it seems, rather than how it is. Now imagine this: Say that Odysseus of The Iliad was not as smart as… Continue reading
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Not As Wordsworth Intended
I just finished a poem by William Wordsworth called ‘Lucy Gray; or, Solitude’, and was reflecting on it a bit. Taken literally, a wonderful little girl goes missing in the snow, and they search for her, find her footprints in the snow, follow them to a bridge, and then the footprints stop precisely halfway across… Continue reading
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The Biltonganator Mark III
I first learned about Biltong, which is a kind of dried and preserved meat in South Africa, from a video on YouTube by a chef named Ben Kruger. In the video, he shows how to make a biltong drying box that uses a computer fan to circulate air inside the box, and the drying is… Continue reading
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Speedy Turkish Coffee
These days I prepare Turkish coffee in the morning, which tastes much better than my ordinary coffee, and is easier to make because only the Cezve (Turkish coffee brewing pot with a long handle) needs to be rinsed out to make it ready for brewing again. I had been making coffee with a Vietnamese Phin… Continue reading
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Crops and The Royal Game of UR
To begin with, many people ask me what UR means. It was an ancient city called Ur in the Babylonian Empire. This empire existed during the Bronze Age, which is related to this post. Babylon existed in what is now Iraq, and the city of Ur was at a place that used to be coastal,… Continue reading
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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
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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
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