A good friend of mine recently sent me a manuscript for a novella he’s writing, seeking advice on where he could improve things. Ignoring the fact that he is an excellent writer, and far more proficient a word-smith than I, I’ve taken the time to read and respond, which brings me to a my […]
After dabbling and tweaking the Gallery software, I’ve managed to get it worked into my site design and more-or-less functional. It does have some peculiarities, in that I had to edit 8 files with exactly the same changes in order to get the structure I wanted, and I had to make some tweaks to […]
So my first game of Diplomacy looks to be going very badly for me after only one full turn. As Russia, I had a plethora of potential enemies and allies. I courted both the Austrians and the Turks for an alliance, made some overtures to the Italians, chatted up the French and English, […]
I’m not really sure that Producerism is a word, but it’s the closest I can come up with the describe the phenomenon I’m thinking about. Basically, I feel like I go through these extreme phases of alternating consumerism and producerism.
For instance, in recent memory, I started with a massive consumerist phase starting in November. […]