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Time in the Empire is measured in Annums (revolutions of the Mother around the local star), Starsigns (There are 10 per Annum) and Orbits (revolutions of the moon Spatha around the unseen Mother). The starsign that a Mere hatches under...
Re: Your Metablogging is Lame as Hell #julyreply Are you an enthusiastic newcomer to blogging? Write about it! Do you have tips and tricks that other bloggers might like? Tell us about them! Did you learn something about blogging that...
During my career in manufacturing, I spent 17 years with one corporation. I became acquainted with a fellow who was reliable in two ways. First, he was a superstar salesman who always achieved his targets. Second, he was the most...
Images for any sort of room… Office, breakfast nook, dining room, vacation, homes… Anything! Let me know what sort of image you would like, would love to work with you…
Every Friday, I intend to list 5 things that happened during the week. Feel free to join in if you want. I'm happy to link back to anyone who does, just pop me a message with the details. :) Two blog entries today, I'm on a roll! To be...
You have to be strict with yourself when you record at home.One of the songs was 10 beats per minute too fast, and I gritted my teeth and re-recorded the guitar part. I made such a mess of it that I did three different versions to edit...
A story I've told a thousand times, but still useful, I suspect.
I had a phase of making little videos about the things in the Do book, and then I forgot.So here we go again:
Today is the Fourth of July Eve, also known as July third. For those of us in the States, today is basically part one of the holiday. All the offices are closed and it's not like any business is going to get done. I took Thursday -...
This new work from Gold Panda sounds like he spent the winter with Daphni and came out convinced of the power of the bop and the beat and the bass. I love this to start my summer. Some of it gets a bit repetitive - he hasn’t fully...
Lighthouse is one of the most successful developer tools we’ve ever shipped, and I say that as someone who is genuinely proud of the work the team has done on it. But something has gnawed at me for a while. Our ability to help the...
The first three days were like an exhaleAfter months of cocooningAll the moths in my chestBut each day after thatFelt like swallowing and vomiting sandThat came with briny tearsI lay on this shore numb as the cool water takesIts share of...
In philosophy of mind, people sometimes say things like the following: If functionalism is true about consciousness, then digital computers could be conscious; all it requires is that they instantiate the right programs. And yes, most...
Now, I'm sure the knee-jerk reaction to this will be "oh but you're OLD, no one cares about such things these days" but hear me out. It seems that if there is any way to "discover" events happening anywhere these days is to either follow...
Suppose that one has a set of points in the plane, which we will think of as the complex plane . Let denote the number of unit distances determined by these points, i.e., pairs of points whose displacement obeys the equation (For this...