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On Truth, Connection, and Disconnection

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In an age of propaganda and post-truth politics,we face people believing outlandish falsehoods and obvious propaganda and acting upon it. How do people become so disconnected from reality? Disconnection is the appropriate term,because some people seek to cut the strands of knowledge that helps us find truths – and some cut their own strands deliberately.

I’ve heard it said that we’re in a post-truth era in 2016, where the idea...

Magical Girl Team Namer: Released!

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is released! It actually looks like it was in pretty good shape, though like many of my generators I may probably want to tweak it later.

Writing it was educational, since magical girl teams have some interesting naming structures such as they are. I had to extrapolate a lot as well. Overall I think it worked.

Here’s a few examples:

Attraction Succubi Change Dancers ...

Civic Diary 1/7/2016

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A bit under the weather, but here’s the latest Civic Diary. For my new readers who aren’t familiar with this, I document my attempts to be a better citizen about twice a month or so. It was once a week but things got busy – and twice a month seems more effective. So what have I learned and tried.

Political Groups And Activist Groups

This last week I went to another meetup of a group I’m joining – and found I’d scheduled it righ...

Generator Beta: Magical Girl Team Names

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And here we go,is in beta.Inspired by everything fromShattered Starlightto my work onHer Eternal Moonlight, it’s a generator to create magical girl team names, which is kind of obvious. Feedback is appreciated – getting the proper feel of names is a bit challenging.

Here’s a few examples:

Bejeweled Soul Singers Candy Wand Sirens Crystal Sorcery Heroines Elemental Angels...

Why Incompetence Is Something We All Choose

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Some thoughts for all the people out there that follow me for career and creative advice . . .

Improving our skills and abilities, learning new things, is something we all develop. Most of us do it consciously, sometimes with a great deal of planning. It may even obsess some of us as our jobs and lives require us to learn at a rapid pace. However there’s a shadow side to what we choose to become compet...

Fallen London: Why It Works

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I found Failbetter Gamesbrowser-based adventure game Fallen London via it’s Kickstarted sister game, Sunless Sea, a kind of nautical rogue like of comedy-horror-adventure. I quickly took to Fallen London’s playable-novel style of adventure (in fact, moreso than the brilliant but nerve-wracking Sunless Sea). As I played this game I began to wonder just why I had taken to it so much – enough to get a mon...

Update 12/26/2016

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And Merry Post-Christmas everyone! I hope you’re doing well. Me, I’ve got over a week off and am enjoying it – which means plenty of time to do projects. And by that I probably mean play videogames, but still.

So let’s catch up!

Way With Worlds Book 2 – I have finished my latest edits and am getting feedback in from pre-readers. Very positive on this one. Still looking to be end of March. I will need r...

Civic Diary: 12/19/2016

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Been awhile since I did these, huh? Well back at it as always.

So let’s get this out of the way – very little was going to change no matter who won the election. As I’ve noted I think Trump is basically going to be anawful president in a historically bad way, so I may be moving a bit faster, but a lot of what I’m doing was already in the plan. There’s a reason for that.

Really simply, I’ve realized over the last few months we’r...

Recipe – Vegetarian Meatloaf

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So one of my goals is to get back to reposting my cooking experiments. I cook, you know it, and I even speak on it and lately my audience suggests I speak on it more. So here goes – and here’s one of my latest experiments, vegetarian meatloaf.

My goal lately has been to go back to experimenting with meatlike vegan food. Why? Well, meat has that combination of texture, savory, and filling, so why not? Also I recenly experienced...

Q&A: Your Career In The Age Of Trump

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OK Donald Trump is President-Elect. So I’m going to discuss what that means for your career, in a helpful Q&A format inspired by John Scalzi.

Why the hell are you writing about careers right now?

It is kind of what I do. Geek Job Guru thing and all.

OK. Uh, you know I didn’t vote for Trump.

I’m kind of guessing you didn’t if you’re reading my writings. I don’t think I attract a lot of modern “conservatives.” But hey, whatever.

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