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in which kevin reoccupies wall street, part two
Most of this post was originally written in response to a question by my former housemate on Facebook on what Wall Street actually does. It summarizes what I spent this afternoon telling the protest camp at Zuccotti Park today. He requested that I post it on a blog somewhere, so here goes.
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in which kevin reoccupies wall street, part one
So, I caved and finally went down to Zuccotti Park to see what all the fuss was about. ( Read more... ) -
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(Written on the way home from Comic-Con 2011)
Someday, if I sell enough
video games, I'll be rich enough
to afford one
Someday I'll have my own office
at a game company someone's heard of
in a room that doesn't always smell like cat shit
in a building that doesn't always smell like cat shit
and I'll line a bookshelf with souvenirs
from half my life--an old
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bronies before honies: fandom is magic
Shit, there's no way to measure it
Not everypony grows up to be a pegasus
You gotta let people be hypocrites
Count your blessin's and mind your business
- Atmosphere, "Like the Rest of Us"
If, twenty years ago, you had told me I would be voluntarily attending a My Little Pony convention, I probably would have run into traffic. Twenty years and ( Read more... ) -
shakespeare had his sonnets. i have love letters to okcupid
Excerpts from actual messages I have sent to unfamiliar women on OKCupid since January.
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in case anyone is wondering why lj keeps going down
Politics, basically.
Selling LJ to a Russian security contractor turned out to be a bad idea on Six Apart's part. One, no real competition in Russia, so it keeps fading further into irrelevance in the Western market as the dev team continues to roll out features only Russian users care about. Two,
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voices of chinese democracy
Reading chinaSMACK makes me lose faith in the Chinese Internet. Reading the China Digital Times helps me regain it.
Neither voice is truly representative of Chinese public opinion--both are run by foreigners with agendas. (Pot, kettle, black, I know.) But oh, how good it feels that someone over there is able to look through the gilded lens of ( Read more... ) -
kevin, why don't you date asian women anymore
What do you see in the face of a local white American woman?I see swaying maples. I see hazel in her irises, and hair the color of warm earth, and gentle, soft skin. I see memories of Saturday morning cartoons, of the prick of rocks and shells in the sand along a hot July beach, of the sweet tang of varnished libraries and ancient drywall. I see ( Read more... ) -
in which kevin waxes zarathustran
In the month following the end of my last contract I've done a lot of recentering. Specifically, I've been trying to rediscover what it is I love about video games so much that I'll gladly work an engineer's hours in an artist's living conditions just for another shot at doing it for a living ( Read more... ) -
in which kevin gets over being fired
(Written on a long Amtrak ride to Oberlin on Thursday, not long after the previous entry. Note effects of sleep deprivation.)So, what happened next? Less than you might expect, actually. For once, there was no avalanche to follow the mudslide, no downward spiral into depression. I'd started this whole journey into madness from nothing--isolated ( Read more... )