A motion to adjourn is always in order.

—Lazarus Long


Archive for May, 2006

I have received a death threat

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Well, this is novel. I’ve just received a terroristic death threat. From
an idiot who failed to obscure his return path. Here it is, precisely as
I received it mere minutes ago:

From salehizadeh_atc@yahoo.com Sun May 21 22:44:42 2006
Return-Path:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on snark.thyrsus.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,
DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS,UPPERCASE_25_50 autolearn=no version=3.1.1
Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (localhost [...]

Testosterone makes people stupid

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Yes, testosterone makes people stupid. No, I’m not talking about the
men who secrete and metabolize it, I’m talking about the nervous old
women of both sexes who pronounce upon it as though it were some sort
of demonic drug.

Animal imagination?

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

About a month ago, one of my regular respondents asked me to blog
about self-awareness in animals. I’m doing so now because it will be
useful for an essay I’m planning to write about ethical and legal
definitions of humanity.

The Eurogame Phenomenon

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

I enjoy strategy games. I’ve been playing them since the heyday of the elaborate hundreds-of-tiny-counters hex-map historical-simulation wargames in the 1970s and early 1980s. But those games don’t get played much any more, largely because they took so long to set up and
learn; after 1985 or so younger gamers moved to computer simulations [...]