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Well, that narrows it down very little.  ;D One of the things that I love about Asia is that their city layouts are almost alien, and have a beauty all their own. If you can tolerate the population density. That's probably the biggest hurdle, isn't it?

Quite. That's why my response to the "Black Lives Matter" statement is simply "Your Life Matters." It makes it far more personal, and takes it out of the abstract. How many black kids grow up with some level of an intrinsic fear of white people, and vice versa? How many of them develop anger...

Probably the most comment sentiment in the world, that.  ;D

My sister-in-law is Kenyan, and she has been quite vocal about letting the family know when she's had negative interactions. I will tell you, nothing will spark me to violence faster than seeing someone making a racist remark about my cute little 2 year old niece. The interesting thing is that...

I actually do greatly appreciate Trump. Not because I agree with him on particular matters, but because he has proven himself to be something of a necessary evil. I watched a decade ago as my father went through a particularly harsh and lengthy treatment for cancer (which had very briefly...

As a person with significant evidence that my direct ancestors were largely responsible for setting off the legendary collapse of Mediterrainean (can never spell it, really) civilization at the end of the Bronze Age, I am quite certain that there is nothing new going on with this unrest. Humans...

I love where I live (Note - Donovan Bailey, the sprinter, used to be a neighbour when I was very, very young) because when my grandparents moved into the house they lived in for 50 years (and was located a mile down the road from my front door), they were technically outside of town, surrounded...

Well, that's a perfectly fair complaint..

Well.... A certain Roman returning from campaign comes to mind...

The first moment my grandfather began teaching me history, I became convinced that civilization itself has always been a polite fiction, a thin veneer over a slowly rotting and poorly bound structure primed to collapse with any sudden strong gust of wind. While there is some truth in that, more...

I got the letter which outlined the reasons for my medical rejection in January 2019. Having been working on sorting out the primary issue and other necessary things which would leave me with no loose ends related to it for the bulk of the past year, I am now in a position to again look into the...

When people make arguments along the lines of claiming that the sitting president is the worst one the United States has ever had (although the term "will ever have" is more accurately the thought being expressed), I take a rather perverse pleasure in pointing out that history is not over, and...

So other than reaching out to the recruiter, given that I recieved the letter outlining the reason I was found unsuitable in Jan 2019, what would be the best way to get started on resuming the chase?

Easiest to do when one is a twin. But in all seriousness.... that's kind of part of the way our brains actually work. So many things are immediately percieved as being binary that we tend to overlook the fact that most of those.... are actually Boolean. Whether we like it or not, a human...

John Kelly's The Great Mortality is an excellent and rather unsettling book to be reading given current events, as it is a history of the Black Death. I always find it interesting that it was in part the product of biological warfare as a result of a Crimean port being put to seige. Sun Tzu may...

The cheesecake my twin brother and I made for Mother's Day (as we have been living with our parents for a number of reasons during this pandemic, the largest being the fact that my father is a cancer survivor with other health issues) was simply the no-bake jello mix with fresh homemade whipped...

I received a letter outlining the minor medical concerns which render me currently unsuitable in January of 2019. Having been working to resolve those issues, I was going to start the process of trying again this year, but for the pandemic. At least that gives me time to be absolutely certain...

To quote one of my favourite webcomics: "All Conversation is Psychological Warfare."

Busy reading to my niece. Most recent book I've read is this lovely little story: Fox And the Jumping Contest Just because she's only 16 months old doesn't mean she doesn't have an appreciation for silly stories being read in silly voices - she apparently finds my Mad Scientist voice an utter...

I run a game development studio which exists entirely in cyberspace, we have about 90 people scattered all over the world (with the majority in the United States). It's just that as a start-up, I don't get paid until we ship our first title. We're on year 7 of a 7 year cycle, so while it's...