Unholy Missives Delivered by Tortoise

This expression is because he knows the Island Princess is...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:32:39 -0400

This expression is because he knows the Island Princess is coming to visit him tonight.

MOONLIGHT ON KU
Acrylic on 8x10 Wood Panel

"It is one of the few universal things about people – we love to play games. Not just people like..."

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:06:35 -0500

“It is one of the few universal things about people – we love to play games. Not just people like you, whoever you are, but people the opposite of you. People who disagree with you politically, people who hold entirely different belief systems than you. People who’ve lived thorough things you haven’t lived through. There are people in the industry that I don’t see eye to eye with on a lot of things, but they make great games and I love playing them. For me, the whole point of gameplay is to be able share experiences with others and allow them to do and feel things they couldn’t otherwise do and feel in their non-gaming lives.”

- kirbybits aka Courtney Stanton on her blog, Here is a Thing

Gender Politics

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:57:27 -0500

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 what it is, and what it means, and how it is.

When I accepted that, I worried less about my manhood, or appearing silly or effeminate. It doesn’t matter. I am a man, and that means exactly what I mean it means.

It’s freedom, just like this man says here:

Reply

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:28:01 -0400

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, it’s a fantastic..."

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:56:48 -0400

“The company lesson is that addressing diversity issues isn’t a burden or a duty, it’s a fantastic opportunity to make our content novel and unexpected.”

- Alexis Kennedy of Failbetter Games, in an interview at Border House about their game (which I am playing) Echo Bazaar and diversity in games.

"What I mean to say is that it will be a source of happiness for happy people and a source of further..."

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:47:18 -0400

“What I mean to say is that it will be a source of happiness for happy people and a source of further unhappiness for those who have chosen to be unhappy.”

- 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 whether we are happy or unhappy is in the magic of how we interpret events. We get to choose and control that, and this quote tells me that I’m not alone in that view.

Which makes me happy. (Or rather, which I choose to interpret in a happy way.)

Ditto. mittense: true.

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:19:46 -0400

Ditto.

mittense:

true.

More and more years keep pilin’ on me, too. Doesn’t...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:12:20 -0400

More and more years keep pilin’ on me, too. Doesn’t make me less weird.

The answer, or rather the Question in 7 days. (no, not 7.5...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:26:32 -0400

The answer, or rather the Question in 7 days. (no, not 7.5 billion years. I’m more efficient than that!)

Prop 8 Decision, 8/4/2010

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:33:52 -0400

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.”

The best part of this chart is the center box: “Offer her...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:05:33 -0400

The best part of this chart is the center box: “Offer her an ‘equal’ Relationship”.

IME, adding a third almost never works, and the assumptions in this chart are why.

ilovecharts:

Looking for a third?

"Thus it will be a simple matter to keep the uttermost parts of the world in instant touch with each..."

Mon, 10 May 2010 14:16:39 -0400

“Thus it will be a simple matter to keep the uttermost parts of the world in instant touch with each other. The song of a great singer, the speech of a political leader, the sermon of a great divine, the lecture of a man of science may thus be delivered to an audience scattered across the world.”

- Nicola Tesla, Popular Mechanics, October 1909

dariuswhiteplume: tas33: Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Coolness:...

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:13:08 -0400

dariuswhiteplume:

tas33:

Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Coolness: Nothing Warmer Than A Turtle Cozey

(via ilovecharts)

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:28:02 -0400

(via ilovecharts)

erotiterrorist: dariuswhiteplume: fearisouronlyg0d: This...

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:24:43 -0400

erotiterrorist:

dariuswhiteplume:

fearisouronlyg0d:

This shirt says it all.

I avoid political posts on Tumblr but man, that made me smile.

Want.

This is why you need to read The Unwritten (from the first...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:32:01 -0500

This is why you need to read The Unwritten (from the first issue,mild spoiler for that issue)

"Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:00 -0500

“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It’s only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I’m bunking off from something.”

- 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 away from blogging.

"A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:52:34 -0500

“A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.”

- Helen Dunmore from Ten Rules of Writing Fiction. Nothing truer said. I write so much better when I’m also walking.

This dueling analogs strip sat there for a moment, then made me...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:09:12 -0500

This dueling analogs strip sat there for a moment, then made me laugh aloud, realizing how true it is for me. I suspect that those who bought a PS3 first and then a 360 may do the same thing, in reverse. But the 360 is comfortable, and typically preferred. Bayonetta I got on 360, because it’s technically better (I will be getting the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII, for similar reasons).

But the simple fact is that my PS3 was upstairs connected to an SD TV so my GoddessDaughter could watch iCarly on Netflix, and only got brought down because I had rented a PS3 exclusive game (inFamous). I know there will be more games on the PS3 that I’ll want to play, but I maintain that the marginal value received from owning the second console pales by the value received from the first, mainly because there are so few exclusives.

"These are the people Amazon pissed off. Which was not a smart thing, because as we all know, the..."

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:01:07 -0500

“These are the people Amazon pissed off. Which was not a smart thing, because as we all know, the salient feature of writers is that they write.”

- John Scalzi, from All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend

Unholy Missives Delivered by Tortoise

This expression is because he knows the Island Princess is...

MOONLIGHT ON KU Acrylic on 8x10 Wood Panel

"It is one of the few universal things about people – we love to play games. Not just people like..."

Gender Politics

Reply

"The company lesson is that addressing diversity issues isn’t a burden or a duty, it’s a fantastic..."

"What I mean to say is that it will be a source of happiness for happy people and a source of further..."

Ditto. mittense: true.

More and more years keep pilin’ on me, too. Doesn’t...

The answer, or rather the Question in 7 days. (no, not 7.5...

Prop 8 Decision, 8/4/2010

The best part of this chart is the center box: “Offer her...

"Thus it will be a simple matter to keep the uttermost parts of the world in instant touch with each..."

dariuswhiteplume: tas33: Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Coolness:...

(via ilovecharts)

erotiterrorist: dariuswhiteplume: fearisouronlyg0d: This...

This is why you need to read The Unwritten (from the first...

"Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and..."

"A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk."

This dueling analogs strip sat there for a moment, then made me...

"These are the people Amazon pissed off. Which was not a smart thing, because as we all know, the..."

MOONLIGHT ON KU
Acrylic on 8x10 Wood Panel