Metanoia update soon (2003/11/23)
I have to go scan the pages, but pretty soon, we have the long-awaited metanoia update. If the secret to a happy ending is knowing when to stop the story, well, we just missed our chance.
[read more...]Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be tech writers. (2003/11/21)
Here’s the trick. It’s not hard to write about things you know. What’s hard is writing about things you don’t know. To do this, you have to learn things, quickly. You have to beat the self-evaluation problem. You have to know what you don’t know, so you can figure it out, so you will know it. You have to learn to recognize blind spots.
[read more...]The guy with the crutches. (2003/11/20)
When I was younger, I used to go hiking with my father. We liked mountains, especially. We could never pass up a hikable mountain. I’m not talking mountain climbing here; just friendly, walkable, paths. When we were in Lassen Volcanic National Park (my favorite of the national parks), one of the trails available was on Mount Lassen itself. Well, we couldn’t pass that up. So, up we went. We brought snacks and drinking water, because it was a longish hike. We took a few rest breaks. We struggled to cross the one place where a snowfield covered the trail; my father’s balance wasn’t all that good.
[read more...]I'm getting old. (2003/11/18)
So, Sunday, I moved some furniture.
[read more...]He says he doesn't want to fight. (2003/11/16)
He says he doesn’t want to fight.
[read more...]More spam from people I once trusted. (2003/11/14)
It’s sort of becoming a recurring nightmare. Companies with whom I once had a happy relationship turn to spam. The latest victim is The Chip Merchant. These people used to be a good source for reasonably-priced computer parts. I bought a lot of stuff from them. My first order was probably in 1998, and they sent order confirmation to a tagged address in the domain “nospam.plethora.net”. As they should have.
[read more...]Creating worlds is always slow starting. (2003/11/13)
The problem with D&D is that it’s fun to have a good, detailed, world, but it’s a lot of work to make a world interesting enough to play in, without building into it The Conflict which, once resolved, leaves you with nowhere to go.
[read more...]200,000 pieces of spam. (2003/11/12)
Sometime this week, I got my 200,000th piece of spam. Actually, this is not precisely true. It’s my 200,000th piece of spam since I switched to the MH mailer in October of 1997. I’d gotten a bit before then.
[read more...]The design flaw with the GameCube. (2003/11/12)
I got a GameCube a while back. It was cheap, and it had neat games, but most importantly (for me), it lets me play GameBoy games on the Big Screen.
[read more...]And TechCentralStation is still spamming me. (2003/11/11)
Just for the record:
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