(also read "re-read when I get home")

Mostly know the content of this already, but it's always good if I want to teach/link to someone else.
http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/armour_dishing_bowling/

This one is a bit more "how this works" and useful!  
http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/planishing/

That's how!!!
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I'm getting burnt by playing with Tir Ysgithr anymore:  I'm tired of showing up, putting myself out there, carrying myself with an optimistic demeanor, and being avoided, received without any enthusiasm, seeing an absolute lack of want for my presence, or having an elephant in the room for almost every conversation.

SO I DUMPED THE NEW BARONIAL ( Read more... )

I'm frustrated by the recursion of women and photographers insisting I must be a model or should go into it.   Every time I talk to photographers, it never pans out, and if any of these people felt strongly enough about it, why don't they hire me (I do deal with several millionaire business-women each week).   I could go to a "modelling school" and ( Read more... )

Well, it could be...   My throat has ached (not stung, scratched, or hurt) increasingly over the past two weeks.   At first, I thought nothing of it - a mild cold - but the last few days have been akin to strep throat in discomfort.   There's no contiguous symptoms, currently (drainage, fever, etc....).   But this has prompted me to start taking ( Read more... )

On Saturday morning, I brought my romantic relationship with Joanne to an end.

[... waiting for the cacophony to die down as numerous cheats, smarms, and creepers start to line up]

I apologize to anyone who felt misled by my omission of this change from conversations over this past weekend, or perhaps confused by other behaviors.   Historically,   ( Read more... )

Swords are awesome!    Heck, that statement is practically a tautology to some of us.   Sword.  Awesome.  This is an essential reality - an assumption ubiquitous in modern fantasy (and masculinity).    These things can do anything from binding legions of the undead to cutting bullets in half ( Read more... )

"... when he's trying to help 15 customers and then asks me to do something while he runs back to grab a bolt.    That's very bad ( Read more... )

You know what the great gonzo-journalism writers of the 1960's had in common?   Honesty, followed closely by alcoholism.    They wrote about who pissed them off, why, and everything else that it would have required bulky recorders or on-the-record conversations to prove.    And the red tape?  Did they give a shit?  No, they published it anyway, and ( Read more... )

What traits, advantages, or disadvantages are innately human?    Before you take recourse to the writings of St. Augustine or Francis Bacon, I should contextualize the question: video games ( Read more... )

I'm wondering what to make or work on, today.   :)