Life Updates (2019/02/16)
It’s been a long time, partially because I ended up with my blogging software in a state where I didn’t feel like interacting with it, so I switched over to Hugo and such, and now I’m gonna try to get back in the habit of posting things here. Where was I? Well, mostly I was on tumblr, but then they performed the Cartesian product of all acrobatic maneuvers and all sharks, so now I’m not. [read more...]
The Zak Update (2019/02/14)
So, just a followup, since people probably wonder:
Yeah, I saw the Zak thing, in which Mandy Morbid, his erstwhile girlfriend, accuses him of long-term abuse. Yes, I believe it. Ironically, I was told repeatedly during the drama that Mandy was a bad person and I shouldn’t believe her accusations, but you know what? Fuck those people. The accusations are credible.
During the whole thing, and thereafter, I talked to Zak a fair bit in email. [read more...]
New blog (2019/02/13)
For reasons, I got frustrated with maintaining a blog software to interact with, so I stopped. I exported old posts, added aliases for them, but this is now a static page, for reasons. Using Hugo.
Whoops (2017/01/17)
So I spaced off actually checking out that this blog worked again after a rather rushed server move, but it’s up now, after a few small adventures.
[read more...]The end of my Mac era (2016/11/29)
I first used MacOS X in 1988. No, that’s not a typo. See, MacOS X is really, under the hood, an older operating system called NeXTStep, which I started using in 1988.
[read more...]Video games, art, and passion (2015/04/25)
So, I wrote about my distress over the very disappointing Angry Birds Epic game. And since then, I’ve seen a couple of things that I think make a good contrast with it.
[read more...]Angry Birds Epic: This could have been a great game (2014/12/05)
I keep thinking about this, and then not doing it, and then thinking about it more.
[read more...]Consultancygate: An Overview (2014/08/10)
UPDATE: New data showed up, and I’ve changed my conclusions on some aspects of this. Most noticably, Mandy Morbid has accused Zak of abusing her, and I have posted some initial thoughts on that, but suffice it to say, I do at this point think I have credible evidence that Zak is in fact abusive in serious and important ways.
So, I wrote a really long thing about this, but it is as noted really long. This article is intended to be a better-structured guide to what happened, and why I think that the attacks on Zak and Pundit are basically dishonest and without merit. This article does not attempt to include all, or even many, of the examples. I am not implying that the things I don’t address are true, or even plausible; I’m just picking the examples I think are the clearest and easiest to understand without a ton of extra research. I looked into a lot more of them, and kept reaching the same conclusions.
[read more...]Things to do if you think someone has been or may be outed: (2014/08/06)
(CAVEAT: This is a draft. It may get updated. Feel free to suggest improvements.)
[read more...]D&D Hatchet Job, Part 2 (2014/08/06)
UPDATE: New data showed up, and I've changed my conclusions on some aspects of this. Most noticably, Mandy Morbid has accused Zak of abusing her, and I have [posted some initial thoughts on that](/log/post/2019/02/14/the-zak-update/), but suffice it to say, I do at this point think I have credible evidence that Zak is in fact abusive in serious and important ways.
Okay, this is where it gets funny. Remember the allegations about Zak's supporters attacking people? I defended Zak, so... One of the charming idiots is now accusing me of being transphobic. The number of problems with this is difficult to articulate, but it's a positive number. [read more...]