Boethius

November 8, 2018

How to Host Your Own Debian Repository

With Linus surrendering to the forces that will consume Linux, it’s time to rethink a few things and make some decisions now that could save our nerd bacon, at least locally. This

December 20, 2016

So you bought your first handgun, now what?

You did it. You studied the models, talked to friends, dug into online forums and picked the handgun you liked the best, found a deal you liked and now have joined the ranks of men. Now what? In some ways

May 5, 2017

Modern Art Is Crap

November 3, 2016

First look at the Springfield XD-S

History

Poles Vs Germans: The Battle of Wizna

November 29, 2016

When the Germans rolled into Poland with over 40,000 troops, they were expecting little resistance from the Poles. What they got instead was the Polish Thermopylae. The Polish army had been building

Culture·Literature·Philosophy

Western Canon: Anabasis by Xenophon

November 26, 2016

Or, How to Succeed When Everything Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong In Every Way Possible. Xenophon may have embellished a bit to cast himself in a better light and the situations direr, but

Culture·Literature

Western Canon: Two Years Before the Mast

November 22, 2016

The vast body of Western literature is replete with many marvelous gems. Some are well known, some are forgotten. This is one of the forgotten gems. Written by a young man who

Culture·Family

How to sharpen an axe with a file

November 20, 2016

You do have an axe, right? Even just a camp axe? No? Get off your ass and buy one. The axe is one of the most useful tools a man can own.

Culture

Titus Andronicus

November 18, 2016

Sometimes doing your best leads to spectacular failure. Shakespeare’s tragedies are always marked by death. Hamlet ends with most of the main cast dead. Macbeth sees everyone important killed off, including the

Philosophy

Aquinas' Five Ways

November 13, 2016

By Boethius I’m not an expert on Aquinas. Any faults about his Ways are mine, not the good Doctor’s. This is a quick overview of his more famous arguments for the existence

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