fleshyorgans

So this is the end of my foray. It feels as if I’ve written a great journey, though it also feels as if I haven’t really written that much. I can look at the nano page and see all the posts, but I don’t have a tangible feeling of how many posts I’ve written. I’m [...]

In the past 2 weeks this blog seems to have gotten really heavy. Well, except for the Emotron post, I suppose. I’m not sure if that’s a function of the shorter days, or the environment I have for writing.

This month is national novel writing month, or nanowrimo. It’s a deal to get authors off their butts and over the initial hurdle of “I’m going to write that book, someday.” The premise is you have a goal of 50,000 words to write by the end of November. However you accomplish that goal is up [...]

So I’ve been fighting the urge to just post about my daughter all the time, because I don’t want to be that kind of guy. You know? I don’t want to be a “dadblogger” because, Lord knows, there are an assload of them out there already. More precisely: I have deliberately not shared things I’ve [...]

You know, one of the main problems I have with the internet is that the Long Tail effect isn’t just a marketing model. It also applies to people with their panties in a wad. 
At any given moment there’s a statistically significant population of ot…

YTTM.tv – Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.: It was inevitable that someone built this. But you know, when a neat feature (search by year) is implemented by a third party to work with a first party, it’s inevitable that it will be …

Ritalin in the Water and Misinterpretations: Jonah Lehrer writes in the linked article about some surprising things he found, just from looking into an internet troll’s vitriolic comment.  I’m taking a different tack than Jonah on this, however: …