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Fight or flight
I spent a lot of time today thinking about death - why I have such a problem with it, how to deal with it, how to be happy despite it. Part of what I figured out is that the 'fight or flight' submodule is really not good at dealing with long term threats.
When you're presented with a threat, both the information about the threat and the predicted ( Read more... ) -
Android
I've got a lot of complaints about the gui of my newish Android phone, including the actual phone dialer (which is important, because I use the phone part of it a lot.) I just had a realization about the root of my problems with the interface ( Read more... ) -
Long term number 2
Since the last post, the only real item I can remove from my list is the xml layer. There's been a lot of other stuff done since then, but none of it really applies to other list items. It also occurs to me that the list items need to be more specific, so that they can either be marked off or changed from update to update. For example, the ' ( Read more... ) -
Valentines Day
I had planned to open a bunch of things for Valentine's day, but I only managed to get about half of them done, largely due to laziness and akrasia. It's still a decent chunk of work though ( Read more... ) -
Alter Aeon Wiki
It's taken forever, but we've finally got a proper Wiki up and running for Alter Aeon. The wiki itself is at:
http://wiki.alteraeon.comIt was even more work than I expected it would be, and took several days of actual effort to get everything in place. Those of you experienced in the field will probably attribute it to my inexperience, which is ( Read more... ) -
AA 18th Anniversary - Post Event Report
It was a mess, but at long last, the 18th anniversary event is over. The final event report is pretty awesome - it's got the full event text for the three main days, as well as the area tour transcripts with lots of historical trivia. It better be awesome, because it took forever to get together. You can find it at:
http://alteraeon.com/events/ ( Read more... ) -
Alter Aeon 18th Anniversary
The official 18th anniversary of Alter Aeon is the 15th of January, and we'll be having several days of events this year ( Read more... ) -
Alter Aeon 2012 Year in Review
I've put together a year in review article for 2012, written from my perspective ( Read more... ) -
New Alter Aeon Articles
After quite a bit of hard work and editing, Shadowfax has put together several new articles, as well as a long and detailed history of Alter Aeon, going back over 15 years. The history article is told from his standpoint, and contains a lot of funny stories from the bad old days through his path to godhood ( Read more... ) -
One Minute Physics
There are two extremely short videos on modern physics in this blog post ( Read more... )