Some interesting books…
 Cordelia’s Honor by Lois McMasters Bujold is two books…Shards of Honor and Barrayar. Its set in the Miles Vorkosigan space opera universe. A number of her MV books I’ve reread three times. One of her books made me laugh out loud and cry in the same book.
St. Valentine’s Night by Father Andrew Greeley [...]

A critique of the replacement theory of time travel
The replacement theory of time travel was developed by Mark Joseph Young to sort out various anomalies appearing in time travel stories. It is described in detail on his website Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies and illustrated by logical reconstructions of many complicated movie plots. [...]

The author is known for, among other things, his web site Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies, and its exposition and defense of the Replacement Theory of time travel.  In this article he explores the possibility of an alternate theory of time.  The article is presented here at Gaming Outpost for comment and discussion, [...]

I have of late been ignoring the role playing theory discussions on the Web.  This is not because I chose to leave them but that they left me–the places where I was participating shut down those parts of their discussions and recommended that those interested in continuing the discussion do so in other places.  My [...]

We goofed about for Saturday morning, with the Ladyfaire getting three hours of sleep. And then it was off to the Tiger Cub hike.
The local area is ridges, hollows, and ravines.
So the hike starts with a steep, multiple switchback down several hundred feet. And then across river bottom woodlands which had [...]

I’m still coughing, but I’m better. Got Mr. C to school, and was halfway to Wally world with the Cuteasaurus before the first cough this morning, I guess. Maybe if I do another day of mostly goofing off, I’ll finally be on my feet sorta. I have the fearsome example of a [...]

Out here in Hohenwald (sounds like ‘hole-in-the-wall’ or close to it), we have a week-long yard sale running down State Twenty. It goes along with the celebration in town called ‘Oktoberfest’ which since this is a Swiss-German community makes sense (hey, we have a cemetery labelled the Swiss Cemetery which I drive by every [...]

Mr. C and the Cuteasaurus had a week off from school for the Fall Break. Of course, Mr. C was supposed to go to school for an hour and a half on Monday morning, but that was ridiculous. Besides, it spoiled our plans to go to Chattanooga for a very long weekend.
So, no [...]

McCallister said in response to my asking for ‘Bug World’ weapons—
Ummmm, you could have fly cruisers. Gnat personal transports. The outsider Moth-nectar collector teams. Spider-tanks. Beetle-class destroyers. Wasp pirate-vessel
====I’m not at all sure how you’d build a vehicle. Much less how you build an animal.
Also, these strengths and what not would have to be [...]

I’ve begun The Templar Legacy which is yet another of the Da Vinci Code style books. And it occurs to me that flipping this attempt at subversion around would be a good idea.
Such books tend to start in the Middle Ages with some esoteric conflict between powerful men with the hero dying, but his [...]