Author: Auz

Austin Bunton Designs is ABD.  What, as a company, is ABD all about right now, and what is ABD going to be doing, moving forward?  We’re going to maintain the momentum we’ve established with our Read more…

                You’ve probably seen my long list of completed trips, expeditions, and other outings.  If not, scroll up on the Home page to the Expeditions link and go check them out. That’s just the ‘tell’, though; Read more…

Humanity has been dumping things, by mistake and on purpose, into the oceans for decades upon decades.  This whole time, all their trash has just accumulated there, clumping up into giant floating islands (some, the Read more…

First of all, for those who don’t yet know that abbreviation, MMORPG stands for Massively-Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.  That’s a mouthful.  It basically means a video or computer game connected to the Internet, where Read more…

“All things happen in threes,” the Chinese say.  So easy is it now for me to see my three very distinct phases of life, and where I am between the latter two of them.  The Read more…

Each time I go explore somewhere, it starts off rough, and I am rarely there more than briefly.  Things don’t go anywhere near as well as I would have liked, but I learn a lot, Read more…

Millennia ago, the Universe and its many neighboring realms (yes, there are things beyond our known Universe, collectively called the Megaverse) began to separate, natural borders between them appearing and becoming more distinct.  Contact with, Read more…

I am happy to announce that the rebuilding of my online presence is complete; the previous website we bid farewell to a year ago has been fully replaced, this new one you are reading from Read more…

Why is everything from ancient times always assumed to be, and labeled as, a temple or a tomb?  Even Stonehenge was assumed to be just a circle of big rocks to serve as a farming Read more…

sar·coph·a·gus /särˈkäfəɡəs/ noun noun: sarcophagus; plural noun: sarcophagi a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece. Sarcophagi have been found around world; the pharaohs Read more…