Eternal hope
Every day I dutifully check my email, hoping against all reason for a message from a friend. Every day I get only spam. Am I insane, or just lonely?
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Another woman game developer driven from her home
Damn it! Yet again, another woman game developer has been driven out of her home by death threats. Game developer Brianna Wu leaves home after receiving death threats for speaking out in support of women Brianna Wu, developer of sci-fi action puzzler Revolution 60, confirmed that she and her husband have left their home due to a …
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You can’t ignore trolls
This article is important: Why the Trolls Will Always Win The take away is the very important point that “ignore the trolls” is the worst advice you can possibly follow. It’s like ignoring bullies in school: they simply take it as evidence that they can abuse you without repercusions, so they escalate their attacks. Personally, …
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First photo in years
I really don’t like having my photo taken – I don’t generally come out looking well. But I haven’t had my photo taken in years, so I really had nothing recent, and tonight I rectified this. After many frames, I finally got an image that I’m not utterly ashamed of, so here it is! The …
Space Cat Can Hear You
Urania does not care.
Terrible RV lessons
When I left work I noticed that there seemed to be a thunderstorm coming in. A real thunderstorm, not just light rain. We’ve been having a lot of really hot cloudless days lately, so this was quite a surprise. As I got closer and closer to home it became obvious that the storm was actually …
An unexpected benefit of divorce
Just a few minutes ago I was sitting and meditating and it occurred to me: I can meditate again. I used to meditate every night before bed many years ago. I had an altar set up and each night I would light candles and incense, put on some quiet contemplative music – some of which …
Useful Firefox hidden settings
Firefox is a decent web browser, but over the years I’ve really come to dislike they way it hides options and generally treats the user with disregard. The Firefox developers seem to think they know what you want better than you do yourself. Here are a few settings you can find in the about:config page …
Music for meditation
Years ago I used to tinker around with writing New Age/Space music. Highly electronic synthesizer music. I’ve not kept up with it over the years, but this weekend I finally digitized a couple of recordings and thought I’d put them online. The titles are a bit pretetious, but I’m not going to change them after …