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Illusionism

So, the snake thing? As you know I’ve been whole immersed in fixing this book, to the point nothing much is happening. Though, really, nothing much has happened this week. The meds now discontinued gave me terrible heartburn which, in me, manifests as shoulder pain. Which in turn means I don’t sleep, and I become so massively ADD that someone mentioning a multitool leads to a two hour browsing for the best multitool. Not that I wanted to buy it. But I had to know EVERYTHING about multitool...

I Was Going to Post

But I can’t seem to do it. Not today. Post tomorrow.

I Meant To Do That

We had a cat — Pixie! Best cat ever — who had an habit of pretending everything that happened was part of his master plan.

Lick himself and fall from the chair? He’d look around with that smug expression, like “I meant to do that.

Now combine this with the fact that humans make up stories out of anything.

So, what I am trying to say is that it’s normal for humans to make up stories and to make things make sense. This is why you need to be very careful about conspiracy theories. Bec...

On Being Yourself

Terry Pratchett, in one of his books (I want to say it was in the Tiffany Aching series) said that the secret to success in life was to be yourself as hard as you could.

I find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with it, which is odd in a way.

Why is it odd? Well, because I’m the person who says things like “Don’t chase your passion” and “Don’t take that degree in creative writing, take a useful degree” and “First take care of yourself and those who depend on you.”

Mind you, that’s not...

All The Shoals

I’m not a hundred percent sure what’s happening, but I’ve had this sense building, building that when Trump actually made it past inauguration and started getting briefings — was he getting them before the election? I know he was supposed to, but did he? — he became highly alarmed.

Now, understand that we’re trying to read tea leaves. Some of this we have no way of knowing, and frankly it’s a good thing we don’t know. Because we can’t do anything about it, and worrying about it will just ...

The Catcher In The memes

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To Work or not to Work

My husband has a Mike Rowe habit. Normally this doesn’t affect me at all, even though we share an office. If I’m writing, I put headphones on and do writing, which is fine.

However, sometimes I’m doing non-word-things, like redoing covers or fixing typesetting issues, or whatever. Which means I don’t have the headphones on.

Normally I also don’t pay any attention to whatever is going on in Mike Rowe’s world.

Note in general he’s either fairly anodyne or says things I largely agree ...

Just a little Skip–No Man’s Land Teaser

(Sarah got attacked by probably pollen, possibly a virus, and the weirdest but maybe most effective unrequested tech support personal–Indy now fixes computer hardware, and said I should share a bit of the book. Something funny and self contained, which, well, Skip generally is, until he isn’t, so herewith, trials of future academia. If it isn’t your tastes, well, you got an Indy here to fix your computer fan photo for your time today!)

Schrodinger Path

Skip:

It is not true that th...

Growth Mindset and Evil In the Guise of Good by Charlie Martin

Growth Mindset and Evil In the Guise of Good by Charlie Martin

I think it’s more of an effect than a cause, but academic education’s terminology gives me a pain in the brain. You know what I mean. So I admit I wish I could come up with a better way to talk about this, but we’re going to have to go with it. It does have the one advantage that it is the common terminology.

I’m talking about growth mindset and its opposite, fixed mindset.

Growth mindset is simple. It simply means that y...

The Voyage of the Space Beagle – Reading The Future of the Past

Or — they pointed WHAT at the alien?

No, you’ll wait for that. Chill. First we’ll get to the real stuff.

On what I’m doing with this attempt to reading myself back through the one Portuguese science fiction imprint available when I was a kid, and therefore responsible for catapulting me into reading then writing this crazy stuff, you can read my inaugural post.

The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle is what I think D. Jason Flemming calls a “Fix up” (?) ie a stitching together of four s...