Author: Shovas

Universal patterns are descriptions of reality as such and how reality and being play out fractally at every level. Their value is not just in showing us how reality plays out but in showing which patterns produce optimal results. In this way, universal patterns are something like vectors in mathematics in that they can be…

Grim was the world, and grey last night. All ways and paths were wild…

A small Christmas tale deep in the winterwoods where a little pixie named Nim embarks on a journey to a human settlement. Also known as Nim’s Vintersaga or Nim’s Winter Journey, this is a high quality QHD 1440p 60fps OBS capture for posterity from a source that appears to have captured the original high quality…

The Psalms are talked about as some of the great poetry of English literature and yet I have always wondered if something was lost in translation. Were we hearing what the original hearers were hearing? So, I asked ChatGPT to help English speakers hear it in a new way. Here are those results. Contents1 Psalm…

If God told you to kill a baby, would you? What kind of a question is that? Good question. The following is a re-post of a Twitter exchange of someone trying a ‘gotcha’ moment on a pro life post. The idea would be to catch someone in a trap if they are pro life yet support the death of children as commanded by God and recorded in the Bible.

With just a USB drive, PortableApps, and VeraCrypt, you have what you need to create a portable, encrypted file and password manager that works on Windows and Linux using simple plain-text files. PortableApps provides a Start Menu-like GUI interface and selection of apps that can be installed. PortableApps is a convenient way to carry the rest of the apps with you, usually on a usb stick, that are used to create and use your own portable file and password manager. While I’m also referring to it as a ‘password manager’, it’s just a file system with files and folders and, so, with VeraCrypt or other encryption you can create a password manager or secure anything else you’d prefer.

Steve McQueen’s Le Mans (1971) was a commercial disaster and, by all standard interpretation, an objectively bad film. It’s slow, self-indulgent, woodenly acted, sparse in dialog, and even sparser in character development. And, yet, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of movies I’ve watched more than once and McQueen’s Le…

I crafted the thought below as an poetic experiment to understand illustrate how generations affect subsequent generations and to provide an illustration of how it is we got to this point.

Woke is 2 + 2 = 5: A poetic attempt to understand and illustrate the vices and excesses of woke.