No matter where you go, you'll always find someone who has a large need to be right about a thing, but this emotional disease is most prevalent in academia. Even more so with the subjective ones, anything ranging from literature to history. Science mostly tends to shy away this arrogance because facts are facts. The focus on raw data does not leave much room open to debate. But where there is more opinion than fact, you leave open the possibilities and people can become entrenched in what they b
Woke up this morning to a fright. My computer would freeze itself in a thinking mode while I got to stare fruitlessly at the icons on my desktop. After finally getting through to the Microsoft Indian technical support, it corrected itself.
Truth be told, in the back of my soul I was hoping it would stay that way. Then Lady Tania would not have a problem with me dropping a grand on a new system. I would just need a new motherboard, chip, tower and a nice big harddrive. Problem is I have that
I got me a pint of Boddington's, a loyal dog at me feet, a loyal and beautiful woman in me bed, and more Roman history than I can write in a life time; what more can a man ask for?
Wow its been a while eh? Finally I have a break from both RV and work to be as bad as I want to be. Well, tonight I drank the best of both Italy and Japan to come to this conclusion: watch Conan the Barbarian.
No really, I bet it's been a while right? Just trust me. This is what adventure was founded upon.
I had a Eureka moment today at work, one of those once-or-twice-in-a-year breakthroughs in an experiment that remind you why you put up with the endless drudgery, thankless sacrifice and at times mind numbing boredom.
I'd like to thank Apollo, Mercury, Angita, Felicitas, Aescapulus and mom without whom none of this would have been possible.
I have always been one to want to do a million things, and thus naturally have no time for anything. My Roman related wish-list activities include:
1. Reconquer the world in Barbarian Invasions using Western Roman Empire.
2. Conquer the world using RTW:RTR.
3. Experiment with barbarian factions in BI.
4. Read every last original source of the histories of the Roman Empire, itself a worthy venture but in order to:
5. Make a grand list of every last civil/religious/military office holder f
This is the third week now trying to get this Rome Total War Barbarian Invasions to work. I have patched, driversized, reloaded and rearranged every possible iota of my computer to no avail. One last resort will be tested tonight: perhaps my vid card and computer need a better or new powersourse. Please deliver me from my pain oh mighty and new 650W PSU!
I swear, the west shall not fall. The barbarians shall not pass!
And what would you do, thrown into the world with a large family name, the over-reaching demands of a brilliant intellect, and the restless energy of a robust body? If life was as fleeting and uncertain as it was in the first century BC, if the body so easily destroyed by casual disease and violence, or perhaps the whim of an uncaring neighboring nation or near unimpeachable gods, would you not live a life of risk?
I think men were made for that. The unnatural extension of life by progress w
