As I sit here on a cool, almost to the point of cold, Sunday afternoon I am reminded of a recent conversation that I had that may very well prove relevant for today. The recent conversation started with a question from a friend of mine, who is often challenging my mental capabilities and between us there are many theories exchanged though often questions left unresolved. This particular one though has an answer. The question was something to the effect does a ice cold glass of water use more energy from your body that one served at room temperature? Read more…
Some few of you that have been reading for a bit have noticed no doubt that I have started moving specific topics out of this blog to other sites. Part of that is because those are old sites that I have owned for some time that were definitely the heart and soul of the subject matter that are having the blog postings relocated there. But beyond that, I am also moving more toward the dark side. By that I mean that I am positioning some of those things to potentially and hopefully to be a little bit better at monetization. Read more…
Medieval vs Technology
Posted in: Frustrations, Medieval, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 2 | Date: 24 March, 2009
So some of you probably wonder why for my escape I prefer the idea of, as someone recently put it, “dressing up and pretending be a guy swinging a sword around.” If you take a look at my daily dose of technological woes and worries it is no wonder I would prefer for my relaxation time to move back 600 to 700 years away from computer and find a time when technology was in general much simpler. After all the technology level of armor or weapon, while advanced for the time, generally either worked for you and you did well or it did not and you died. No gray areas or dumb things you have to do to get them to work. Yeah, for those wondering, I am about to gripe a bit about some technology issues… Read more…
As many of you know I have been gone the last several days and prior to that I had not done much in regards to blogging for a bit, both in getting ready for heading out, being busy in general and a good deal of lazy thrown in as well. But I am back and have a few hundred blogs to catch up on and post.
As I am coming back I want to shout a big THANK YOU to everyone Read more…
So I am mulling over this blog in my head for the last couple of days and I finally have decided to put proverbial pen to ink. I kept trying to think about just exactly how to start this blog and finally it dawned on me, as it is definitely hitting the way I am feeling right about now. “Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headed for the trains, feeling nearly faded as my jeans…“ – which we all recognize as the famous opening to Me and Bobby McGee, much more famous because of the version that Janis Joplin did, but in fact it was written by Kris Kristofferson. Oddly enough, while Kris himself did have some short lived fame, his own musical career was probably eclipsed by his songs being performed by others. Read more…
It occurs to me that today I am engaged in what is probably one of the most expensive hobbies a person can have. I realize this after fighting on the ground Saturday and thinking about how many cool bits or updates to armour I have that I would like to make part of one of my two kits (like the used Salet Helm, a mere $300) but especially when I think of today and know that I have both the vet and the farrier coming out to deal with Angel and Jack this afternoon.
I look back over the last month and I realize that I started out the month like a lion on prowl for prey with my posting and was well on my way toward getting a post everyday. Then I had hit a snag or two and before I knew it, I was three or four days with out a post. Then it go worse, I finished the month with one post in ten or twelve days. What whimpering finish to the month.
