piratical philosophy

Welp

Posted by on March 12, 2013 at 3:46 pm

The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ’men Gang aft agley, An’lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! -Robert Burns Half the time I couldn’t understand a Scotsman if you offered a million bucks to me to do so. Other times, I understand the bastards far too well. It would seem that my tumultuous entry into internet spaceships politics is at a close, [...]

Beginning the Campaign in Earnest

Posted by on February 12, 2013 at 5:02 am

Having been waylaid by RL events and a killer cold shortly after making my first couple of posts, I’m now back in good health! I now have a forum post up on the Jita Park Speakers Corner forum, which you can view here. Here’s the full text: I would like to take a moment here [...]

Bidding Tuskers Adieu

Posted by on April 8, 2012 at 9:48 pm

While I am giving the whole ‘space journalist’ thing a go (look for more ‘article’ format posts on current events and such here soon), this post is a bit different and deals solely with Marc Scaurus the Eve Online pilot. If you don’t give two shits, please visit later when I will resume regular posting [...]

Lowsec is the Happiest place in Eve…

Posted by on February 16, 2012 at 8:29 pm

…if your idea of happy is blowing shit up. Turns out Twin Turbo (aka CCP Diagoras) was not ignoring me. Instead, he was marshaling his army of spreadsheets to churn out my requested information. Here it is: Total Kills by Security Status Group for 2011. At first glance this is just absolutely flabbergasting. How in [...]

Lowsec by the Numbers

Posted by on February 15, 2012 at 7:31 pm

Everyone’s favorite disseminator of statistics, CCP Diagoras (aka John “Twin Turbo” Turbofield), loves to spam #tweetfleet with various number porn things like the number of combat probes vs. core probes built in a given month, or the velocity with which 7 million missiles can impact the sun, or the number of Spartans required to withstand [...]