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An Idea from an Old Mage Game
Years and Years ago... I believe during my second year at the Academy I was inspired to write a short story on a series of post-it notes during a class. This little story became the inspiration for an NPC in mage campaign that I was running who pulled shards of the avatar storm directly to empower himself. I think that the NPC I pulled in from the ( Read more... ) -
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Corporate Look
I don't find these pictures of Occupy Wall Street labelled with the brands of the objects the protesters have very compelling in the way they are intended to be. I understand the base assertion that it's hypocritical for a group to decry "evil and greedy corporations" while wearing their swag, but that analysis stems from not properly labeling the ( Read more... ) -
Flexibility
One of the things that comes up with the gender pay gap is that women are apparently paid less if they have kids or could be come pregnant. This is one of the areas I go back in forth in my head on a lot. I expect that, in this current cultural climate, women with kids or in the childbearing age do cost employers more. I'm certain, though I don't ( Read more... ) -
Backlog: Initiation
As a result of a project of mine where I'm getting together all of my old poetry I've been going through my old livejournal posts. I'm realizing there's a limited shelf life to how long I'll remember the extra details surrounding an event, so I need to record them somewhere somehow. I'm just going to link back to them here and add the things I need ( Read more... ) -
Politics Today
Neil Boortz was a little upsetting today. I've had this growing discontent with people blaming the President for things that are clearly perpetrated by the legislative branch. Formally, as I understand it, the only real power he has is to veto. This yields some implicit power to negotiate, but, it's not quite the same as the level behind calling ( Read more... ) -
Moron Software Patents
One of the problems with software patents is that nobody has any idea what is or is not novel. I can't find it now, but I made a post earlier about one of the many tech experts who talked about the "pinning" feature of Windows 7 like Steve Job's NeXT team didn't really invent it, and, honestly, it may be older than that since my history only goes ( Read more... ) -
City Graffiti
I recently got a new camera. I have an ongoing project where I try to get pictures of interesting graffiti that I see. Today I was riding MARTA and my new camera is actually fast enough to catch some shots. I'm really happy with it so far.
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iPhone Tracking You
I recently read an article pondering why nobody has gotten extremely outraged against the iPhone tracking its users locations and storing it in a plain text file. They keep asking a bunch of "what ifs" about how we'd react to other companies do this, but I think they're missing a big example: Google ( Read more... )
