This mostly a rambling, vaguely stream-of-consciousness, discussion on combat and mental state. Triggers: lots of talk about medieval versus modern combat in S.M. Stirling's A Meeting at Corvallis, and some chatter with Josh on "keeping your cool", and a little bit of watching action flicks with Hollywood combat on the very long plane flight home ( Read more... )

"I love her so much, I think I want to marry her ( Read more... )

I should fill this out into a proper essay sometime, but given that it's completely self-centered, that is probably a bad idea ( Read more... )