Posted this Pungenday, the 35th day of Discord in the YOLD 3190
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Fun Fact: American Cockroaches like beer.

“We’re keepers or kept from, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that’s what will be left at the end of it all.” -– Maggie Stiefvater

St. Gulik is the Messenger of the Goddess. A different age from ours called him Hermes, another Mercury. Many people called him by many names. (What's in a name?) He is a Roach.

Actually, the amazing thing about Saint Gulik is that he's really all roaches. Remember that bunch you saw a few weeks ago? That was all one roach moving really, really fast. Fact of the matter is, whenever you "step on a roach," all of what's happening, in reality, is that Saint Gulik sees your foot coming (

panamaus. The true story of David Cholmondeley Palmer^†

As I recall, I first met panamaus at a cryptography conference run by my then employers. At the time he was teaching number theory at Manchester University and I was doing data meta-analysis for Her Majesty's Government in Cheltenham. I was at the conference as part of a GCHQ group who were looking for talent, head-hunting if you will. When I hear stories of how the government recruited people for the WWII Code

I've been having a lot of nightmares lately. Not just the waking nightmare of watching the conspiracy theorists slowing taking over the public political discourse, but actual nightmare dreams. The worst involved me rescuing Tessie, who'd been kidnapped and taken to New York City's Chinatown with a ridiculous and scary Big Trouble in Little China plot. Other events included me being sexually assaulted and having to to kill one of my torturers (a scene reminiscent of