C.J. Moseley's Blog, page 185
August 22, 2013
WriteWorld: A Bit of Research on Pyromania
haxorizer145 asked: Hi, I’m a beginner at writing, I have this prototype for a story that is centered in a mental asylum, however, I have no idea how to get my character’s mental disorder right. My character has Pyromania. I would like to write him in his point of view, with thoughts and…
Some great advice hiding in this post.
August 21, 2013
Research Trip
It was a pretty good day out for my younglings too, but for me it was all research for Ironmaster (and some cool science and engineering photos too).
August 20, 2013
attackontitty:
afternoonchalupas:
ryanpanos:
Haunted Play…
Haunted Play House At The MoCA In Tokyo by Torafu Architects via Yatzer
This ‘Haunted House’ is not like any you will have seen before and comes in the form of a spooky gallery of paintings that at first seem ordinary but soon turn out to have some hidden surprises in store. The concept behind Torafu Architects’ ‘Haunted Play House’ is to challenge perspectives and norms where rules are broken as children are actually encouraged to run, shout and touch – activities usually forbidden in a gallery or a museum.
Is this Ib
August 19, 2013
A certain cache
I've been hard at work recently trying to improve the performance of my site. To this end I have activated the Cloudflare.com site cache as well as some internal caching (database look ups and the like), page caching for HTML and more control for Browser Caching. All of which should make the site seem faster and more responsive.
There are still some problems (and caching everything will mean that the random backgrounds may "stick" on a version you don't like, but they are small prices to pay for enhanced speed) my hosting while cheap, unlimited in size and bandwidth and green is slow with the Servers often taking up to half a second to begin responding. I'm hoping the Cloudflare caching will improve that with time, but we'll see.
If you are having problems with the site (usually most of the complaints come from Firefox users — who never seem to understand that Firefox is riddled with bugs that stop HTML 5 from working properly, try Opera [much faster] or A webkit browser like Safari/Chrome or even IE (well maybe not, although this site works fine on it) — like the tabs here that have to be clicked before Firefox pays attention to the "#col" part of the URL), just click the link on the top of the right column, and contact me if it's still misbehaving, and I'll fix what I can. Conversely if you love what I've done with the place, let me know that too - it doesn't all have to be negativity and complaints.
Right then, I'll get back to child herding and thinking about Ironmaster (I've already abandoned some of my first draft ideas for new better ones - Is it still regicide when its a Queen or Reginacide?)- can't wait till the kids get back to school so I can start writing it (and publish some short stories I have been working on — speaking of which I'll probably slip those shorts on here around then too)…
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laughingsquid:
Google Maps Street View Easter Egg Lets Users…
Google Maps Street View Easter Egg Lets Users Explore the TARDIS From ‘Doctor Who’
Hmm… 11th Doctor Interior, but that Police box isn’t a TARDIS (the sign is on the wrong side)
August 18, 2013
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August 16, 2013
This is brilliant
chels:
A 1939 map of physics, which lays out…
This is brilliant
A 1939 map of physics, which lays out famous physicists and their fields of study, including: Mechanics, Sound, Electricity, Magnetism, Light, Astronomy, Heat, Mechanical and Elecromagnetic Energy, and Radioactivity. Check out the text under the Darkness peninsula:
Coming to be
Ceasing to be
Was and
Has been
If you take some time really look at this thing, it starts to make a lot of sense. You can see how different fields are related, and how particular people influenced several areas of study. From Big Think: “Some names appear more than once: Newton appears on the banks of the river leading from Light to Electromagnetic Energy, on the opposite bank of Huygens; but also between Hooke and Leibniz, on the shores of the stream between Astronomy and Mechanical Energy.”
Go explore this one, everybody. I’m going to have to add it to the list of posters I need for my office walls.
August 15, 2013
Le Spam
French Vikings.
I don't know what it is about my website, but I seem to attract a lot of French Language spammers.
For the record, I am unlikely to allow any posts from any site that seems to be a handbag store, sells women's shoes or is in any language I don't read (at least without google translate helping) this isn't because I have anything against you or your product it's just that all these sites seem to like posting comments that have not even a single word relevant to the post.
I get SO many spambots from these sorts of stores (2 or 3 a day at times) that I'm likely to delete any comment that is in poor English or looks like it may have been generated by a Spambot.
So, if you want your comment to survive please make sure that it is does not link to a foreign language store (all my readers are English readers anyway) or at least make sure your comment is actually relevant to the post.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled light summer nonsense. See you in September.
