- First, he has some thoughts about cloaks. Largely that they're terribly useful and possibly there is some reason that people used them for the most of human history.
- Next, he thinks about leg hold traps and how it's fairly likely that historians keep holding them upside down. I don't have any expertise to assess his theory, but I do have to say that it looks to me like Occam's Razor applies well here, what's the simplest way to use the object that doesn't require us to make up anything else to make it work.
- Finally, Lloyd thinks about quick draw bazookas ... or what people actually did with two-handed swords, when they actually used them.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 111)
In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we meet the very interesting Lloyd "Lindybeige", so named because he's terribly fond of beige and the Lindy Hop. Beyond this he spends an awful lot of time thinking about things and also doing things. I don't always agree with the thoughts he thinks, but most are pretty interesting. Here are some of the things he's thought about:
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