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Marty McFly is a full human being
Marty McFly is a full human being

...What happens when you make a young adult actually a young adult?

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Nov 15, 2025
Vim Part 5: I have found the place
Vim Part 5: I have found the place

In which I lose my manuscript, and have to rewrite it all from scratch.

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Nov 03, 2025
Cleaning Simulators make me metaphysically uncomfortable
Cleaning Simulators make me metaphysically uncomfortable

-OR- Is all fun good fun? Distraction, entertainment, and the slow murder of our capacity for satisfaction.

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Oct 27, 2025
Violent Shuttle
Eleven interesting quotes, from a hoard obsessively collected over many years with no particular rhyme or reason
Eleven interesting quotes, from a hoard obsessively collected over many years with no particular rhyme or reason

One of the things that I do instead of driving fast cars and dating supermodels is collect interesting quotes.

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Oct 14, 2025
The Great Gumdrop Robbery is Poetry
The Great Gumdrop Robbery is Poetry

A quick followup to my previous post about Russel Hoban's The Hungry Three series!

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Sep 21, 2025
Cave Song
The Old Wave
Into That Long Time Dark
A reading recommendation: Russell Hoban's The Hungry Three series (and also some accidental spicy werewolf romance novel plans, but that's on me, not Russell)
A reading recommendation: Russell Hoban's The Hungry Three series (and also some accidental spicy werewolf romance novel plans, but that's on me, not Russell)

My friend Lars likes to use the phrase, "Garbage in, garbage out."

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Aug 23, 2025

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