October 2011
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February 2011
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“It is one of the few universal things about people – we love to play games. Not...”
– kirbybits aka Courtney Stanton on her blog, Here is a Thing
December 2010
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Gender Politics
I want to say this: I am a cisgendered, (at least) bisexual man. Gender politics is mildly important to me — I’m not transgendered or even questioning of my gender. In that I am lucky.
But the most valuable thing I got from reading and being with people who really care about gender politics is this: No one gets to define what it means to be your gender,except for you. You define...
November 2010
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snakelinksonic:
necromancetheatre reblogged your photo: I ONLY HAD TO GO BACK THREE PAGES BEFORE FINDING…block
What’s this from? looks like my kind of anime ;)
Here you go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Scroll
“The company lesson is that addressing diversity issues isn’t a burden or a duty,...”
– Alexis Kennedy of Failbetter Games, in an interview at Border House about their game (which I am playing) Echo Bazaar and diversity in games.
August 2010
5 posts
“What I mean to say is that it will be a source of happiness for happy people and...”
– From Slacktivist. I’m more interested in the intent and worldview embedded in that statement than the actual text of the entry (which I’ve not yet fully read). Happy people are happy, but unhappy people have chosen unhappiness.
Of course, I think we choose happiness, as well. A lot of...
More and more years keep pilin’ on me, too....
Prop 8 Decision, 8/4/2010 →
“The evidence shows that the movement of marriage away from a gendered institution and toward an institution free from state-mandated gender roles reflects an evolution in the understanding of gender rather than a change in marriage.”
July 2010
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May 2010
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“Thus it will be a simple matter to keep the uttermost parts of the world in...”
– Nicola Tesla, Popular Mechanics, October 1909
April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice...”
– Geoff Dyer, also from Ten Rules for Writing Fiction. This is particularly appropriate for me today. The more I need to be working on coding projects, the more I want to write fiction. The more I need to write fiction, the more I do blog posts. And damn if those coding projects don’t tempt me...
“A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long...”
– Helen Dunmore from Ten Rules of Writing Fiction. Nothing truer said. I write so much better when I’m also walking.
“These are the people Amazon pissed off. Which was not a smart thing, because as...”
– John Scalzi, from All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend
January 2010
7 posts
Future Missive, 2
Tablet? You’re still hung up on physical devices?
And Google vs Microsoft vs Apple? Pshaw. You won’t even see opposing sympathizers once you have the implant.
Future Missive, 1
I’m here from the future to tell all of you that Mass Effect 3 totally blows the water out of Dragon Age: Retcons’ success. Of course, EA’s Simon Sez game for Wii+ continues to outsell both, combined.
“Science and religion always went hand-in-hand in my house, and things like God Creating the World and Evolution weren’t contradictory. They flowed into and out of each other, and that made sense to me. It still does.” — Teresa Jusino, from Religion and Science Fiction: Asking the Right Questions
I’m not Christian anymore, and I don’t believe God Created the World. I...
December 2009
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August 2009
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“Nothing’s gonna rile my cool.”
– Jive Guru Davey Ohlm
Thought for Today:
Compersion is the opposite of schadenfruede.
Polyamorists wand compersion to be the opposite of jealousy, but it isn’t.
It’s still a wonderful emotion to feel.
So,
today, I will feel new again.
“Now, I only feel that wonder when I’m creating art, or forcing myself to...”
“She let out a wail as though she’d been wounded by an oncoming train. She...”
“it bobbed and swayed in the air, and I remembered when she was three and she had...”
“Then there was that thing last night, where…”
“Still, I wouldn’t give up my night in jail. It has made me who I am.”