Things that I never thought I'd say, because they're said in movies:

"I'm letting you progress, but I'm doing you no favors. The next step is much harder, you have four days, and you're only partially prepared. Good luck."

The weekend started on Thursday ( Read more... )

Present and accounted for.
I'm a few miles away in Cambridge, and nowhere near the Boston Marathon explosions.

"YOU! WHO ARE YOU? NO, I'M NOT GOING AWAY. WHO ARE YOU?"That was me, about 3 hours into a 4-hour Live Action Role Playing game (i.e. LARP). My character had just about Had Enough, and I decided to Do Something About it. It was great. People were still talking about it the next day ( Read more... )

A friend had asked why the Newtown shooting discussions have provoked so much more vitriol than other discussions on similar topics. I wrote the following in a comment, but it deserved its own post.

A lot of the problem is that the Newtown shooting was so horrific that everyone started talking about it to everyone else.One problem with that. ( Read more... )

I've been responding to all of the story fragment requests in the previous posting. I do believe this is the first time I've actually put any thought into writing fiction. I'm still taking prompts.

In the process of doing that, I also believe I wrote my first piece of fanfic, and I'm calling it out for posterity.

The prompt: Buckaroo Banzai Vs ( Read more... )

This particular meme has been traveling through the LJ-Verse, and I like it quite a lot. Here we go:

Meme: Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you a sentence from it.

So, let me just say that I love DropBox. It's a useful tool, it generally does the right thing, and it gets out of my way and lets me get my work done. That is to say, it does many things a well-engineered tool should do ( Read more... )

Fill In The Blank:

The good news about _________ is _______________________.

The bad news is roughly the same.

Observations: A few thoughts on the 2012 US Presidential Election ( Read more... )