Do you freeze up in front of them and NOT LET ME OUT? Because if you do, I'm afraid that you won't be able to get revenge for that earworm because I'll have to kill you.

Since I didn't freeze up at the Giant Revolving Door of Death at the Hyatt, then I think I've justified my continued survival. Really, though, I think that door was trying to do us a favor by keeping us out.

Since it's a drafting class, I'd just go with, 'if you're going to draft it, you'd better understand it." And also, being able to see how these processes/machines/diagrams are drafted gives you great examples of How to Draft.

Batman by Dostoyevsky

Time for another forgotten classic from the vast Again With the Comics archives. Here we present Dostoyevsky Comics, originally printed in Drawn and Quarterly #3 (2000), and currently out-of-print, as far as I know. Crime and Punishment, originally written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was brilliantly adapted here by R. Sikoryak, as seen through a Dick Sprang Batman filter. This marriage of Classic Russian Literature and the Caped Crusader of Gotham also serves as further proof, if any were needed, that everything is better with Batman.

Heh. I have the D&Q #3. It's about ten years older than they say it is, though.

What's next - Superboy by Kafka?

In the same vein, Sikoryak did a comic strip of Camus' The Stranger with Superman as the protagonist.

RIP Jane Wyman.

One of my neighbors was explaining to me how she can astral project.

My head remains intact.

One of my neighbors was explaining to me how she can astral project.

I had a roommate who claimed she could too. Of course, she did a lot of LSD.

I used to read up on astral projection a lot as a teen. I really wanted to be able to do it. Also some Lobsang Rampa (I'm scared to look him up now) and the magical restorative power of the pyramid (it sharpens razor blades!)

God, my head hurts.

I had a friend in university who was working on shunting her mind to her navel, instead of up in her head where we all keep ours.

I mean, I guess we do. Mine's gonna be pretty much behind my eyes and between my ears. If I were blind and deaf would it still be there?

The way that technology is tied into tactics is something that is never discussed in history classes at the K-12 level, and probably should be. Otherwise, you end up thinking (like I did) that the British line, the Civil War bayonet charge, and the trench warfare of WWI were just stupid, but viewed in combination with what they had on hand, they either make sense or explain why the death rates were so high.

Yeah, one of my pet peeves as a black powder-era geek is when people seem to think the British were too dumb to realize that red is a highly visible color! Which is not to say that armies don't get in trouble by fighting the last war. One of the reasons Civil War battles were so lethal is that the officers had grown up learning about Revolutionary and Napoleonic-era tactics, and in the intervening decades it *did* become practical to arm your entire army with rifles--and those rifles were firing modern-shaped bullets as opposed to round shot, which IIRC gave them three times the range of earlier rifles. So instead of having mostly muskets with ~100 yards' range and a small number of riflemen with ~300 yards' range, you suddenly had a whole army of men carrying guns that were lethal at 1000 yards. (All ranges are pulled from memory of a book I read over a year ago, so don't quote me on exact numbers!)

Such a strange thing to be expert on, I know, though it's entirely practical for the kind of writing I do! And if I'm every flung back in time 200 years and given command of an infantry division, well, I'll know how to fight it!

Giant Revolving Door of Death at the Hyatt

That thing was evil. The revolving doors might as well have been blades. Woosh! Woosh! Thunk! "Only the penitent geek shall pass!"