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Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and the Machine as Metaphore
My friend Earthdragon once said that the difference between steampunk and cyberpunk is that steampunk is a dystopia run by idealists, while cyberpunk is a dystopia run by cynics ( Read more... ) -
How do you store and process information?
How do you track information, and in what sorts of structures do you hold onto it for future reference ( Read more... ) -
Work...
is kicking my butt. And it's not the only thing on my plate. If I'm being slow to respond and you want to talk to me -- send me email again. I'm losing track of things that aren't Of Critical Importance. -
Relationships: Four Tenents of Belief
Fodder for conversation ( Read more... ) -
It must have been so bright...
..bright as a dozen suns, and larger than life itself, to cast such a shadow. Soft as dove's wings, cold as silence -- a shadow dark enough to dim the light that cast it.
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Old news, stirred up again. I am, and will be fine. Sometimes, though, expressing something helps to grapple with things too big to feel all of at once. -
New Job, New Schedule
Let it be known to all that I am starting a new job as an EMT in a couple weeks, and have a new (and somewhat screwy) schedule ( Read more... ) -
Gah. GAH.
New and Painfully Annoying Conditions, Part 1:
(or, if not new, at least ones I haven't experienced in quite a while)
Too stressed to sleep.
PLUS
Too tired to stay awake.
EQUALS
coming up and down out of obsessive revisiting of everything I may have done wrong and very strange, vaguely terrifying dreams.
Internet, to the rescue? -
Public Service Announcement: on Happiness, and Convincing
You can convince me that something is right.
You can even convince me to support something. Especially if I believe that it is a good and right thing. I may convince myself.
But that does not mean you can convince me to be happy about it.
Don't you think I want to be happy about what is good and right? I have tried, and it is not that easy. ( Read more... ) -
Realization About Poly
Something just gelled in my brain. I know it's not a new realization, but it feels important ( Read more... ) -
Who Needs a Place to Live?
Because there will be one, soon, in my house ( Read more... )