March 2012
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How Far We've Come Since Pong
Saying the internet changed things is old now.
Let’s talk about one of the following:
Education
The Economy
The death of manned space travel.
The environment
Gay rights
Women’s rights
Religion and the government
Campaign finance reform
OPAC
Or, quite honestly, just about anything else.
The internet’s not a new thing, and talking about how far we’ve come since...
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An Apology
I haven’t been blogging much these past few days, and I just want to take a moment to say that I am sorry. Things have been pretty busy, and I’ve been working on a few projects that have really taken up my time. They’re all pretty cool (and I look forward to sharing them in due time), but I won’t say much more at the moment.
I do care about this blog, and I’ll be...
February 2012
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Room: My Third Tumblr Theme
My third Tumblr theme, Room, has just been approved by the Tumblr Theme Garden. Room comes with a slew of awesome features, and is designed to look beautiful and be functional simultaneously. It comes with 16 simple and powerful theme options, like:
Twitter updates in the sidebar.
Disqus commenting.
Google Analytics
Full group blog support.
I hope you all like the theme. I plan on doing some...
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The Quiet, Quiet Wind
The children played in pastures, running in circumscribed arches, then breaking off cotangentially. The air rushed through their faces, lifting them to fly. Their father smiled as he watched, thin-armed glasses sitting placidly on his face. His smile, small and mirthful, twitched, rose and fell as his mind stretched and collapsed, waxing contemplative over the day. They looked like their mother....
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A Morning
The sun was a bastard for rising so early. Jamie Watkins, splayed askew below the weight of sweat-drenched sheets, contemplated whether this act was a purposeful provocation. He felt the sun’s warmth seep through the windows, and shifted the dampened sheets uncomfortably. He had sweat all through the night again, something his physician had sworn was finished. He would have to call and...
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Firecrackers
Firecrackers. Stark, quick footed down the corridors. Up and out of bed and launching, lighting firecrackers.
“Why me?” he thought. Having barely fallen bedside, he pictured now the slightest little flames, and saw them billow and smoke to life. He wondered if this warranted caring, and in answer to himself gave little more than a noncommittal grunt. Perhaps the same grunt they would give at the...
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Physics and Nirvana
I got a 90% on my Physics midterm. It’s okay. I could have done better.
This seems to be a recurring problem. The comparison of actual accomplishments to a percieved potential accomplishment. All achieved things become lesser based on that ideal, and you end up losing one of the greatest motivators for further effort: a sense of accomplishment. It’s called the “Nirvana...
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The Immorality of Wealth
Sorry I haven’t been blogging much these past few days. I’ve been working on some reorganization, some projects, and time got away from me. I’ve caught it now, and scolded it a bit, and it promises me that this won’t happen again. So, with that dealt with, I think I can begin.
I watched “In Time” a few days ago. It was an okay movie, decently acted, but with...
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Identity
I’ve been trying to come up with the words for this for some time. It’s not always easy to write what you think, because you don’t quite know your own thoughts yet, or you’re afraid to write them down. I feel like that sometimes.
I love The Big Bang Theory. It is one of my favorite shows. But I’ve felt as the seasons have gone on that the characters, once...
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Coffee
I’m trying something new today. Per the advice of a wonderful friend, I am sharing a story I wrote. It is supposed to be fairly funny (and I hope you find it so), but just as a warning, if you are bothered by any strong language or mature themes involving the beverage habits of addled writers, you may want to leave. In fact, might I suggest a more family friendly site, like the Congressional...
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No Blog Tonight
Sorry about this, but I won’t be blogging tonight or (probably) tomorrow night. I have midterms this week, and so it’s really just going to be grind-it-out time for the next few days. I will return to regularly scheduled programming after that, but until then, I leave you with a list of interesting facts from National Trivia Day (which was yesterday, but hey, these are still fun).
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Wit
Wit is a thing to be treasured. Knowledge is a thing to be stored until it’s useful.
Wit is the twinkle in a person’s eye, knowledge is the droning of their mouth.
Wit is, in my humble opinion, far more important than any knowledge you can have, because while knowledge can be gained by anyone with the time and inclination to do so, wit is there, or it isn’t. That’s not...
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Being Original
For the longest time, I was concerned with being original. I was so focused on saying something, the perfect thing, the most poignant point possible. I somehow had this belief that the people whose quotes you read just magically produced them, that their minds were so clear, and their wits so sharp, that they took one look, and knew it all, and said it all. So I waited, and contemplated, not the...
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Exhaustion
I’m feeling it right now. I had a Midterm today, and a Computer Science lab due, and review for my Physics Midterm next Tuesday, and I am tired.
When people are tired, they tend to try less. They’re more short tempered, they’re lazier. I’m all of those things, but I have an additional symptom: when I’m tired, my Asperger’s shows more.
When I’m rested,...
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The Rules
There is an odd phenomenon in places with rules where people become more concerned with the rules than anything resembling accomplishment. As anyone who’s spent any time in a government job or at a government office can attest, the level of paperwork required for even the most mundane task often oversteps the boundary of reasonable caution, and gallops into the world of blind capitulation to...