Captian's Log State of Things 29 Nov 202426 Nov 2024 Do I want to do this? That is the question I avoid answering again and again. With myself and my family, I have been far more explicit in response: "No.…
Captian's Log Drive Home 3 Dec 20232 Dec 2023 As I drove home, a slow malaise crept over me so that even the insanely contorted plot of the Wodehouse audiobook I had playing turned from a delight to an…
Captian's Log Now Listen to This Carefully, Norman 28 Apr 2023 It comes to me that there is a difference between "This statement is a lie" and "This statement is false" merely for the fact that a lie can be true.…
Captian's Log Life and Death 20 Nov 202219 Nov 2022 The dead are dead, but the living are dying. Life is inescapably change. Unchangingly change, we might allow with a wink. Life is waking and sleeping, eating and shitting, and…
Captian's Log Forget 15 Oct 2022 So, a friend of mine on twitter gave me a "Would you rather…" scenario, and I found it very insightful, partially because I knew my answer immediately, and partially because…
Captian's Log Death of Freedom 17 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 I find two tigers circling each other, each growling terrible threats. One says it undermines our freedom, to take the symbol and destroy it. I tremble, seeing its fangs bared…
Captian's Log My Dilemma 22 Nov 2017 ~Be Ye Warned: Spoilers!~ You remember the short story, The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton? I want to talk about the ending, or lack thereof. You see, there…
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