January 21, 2025

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Upcoming Site Upheaval

So there’s been a bit of upheaval in the WordPress community lately. I’m not going into it here, you can read about it for yourself. The TL;DR of it all is that I’m fed up with the controversy and the software, and while I did convert to ClassicPress a while ago, I’m just ready to […]

Hey, Look Who’s Here…

The other day, in a fit of pique — and after this website was down for about 2 hours in the middle of a random weekday — I decided to switch hosting companies again. Why did I ever move away from Hostgator? They aren’t the cheapest hosting company ever, but for the range of features […]

It’s Time to Save the World

Hello from 2017, and holy shit, has the world gotten pretty bad since Jan. 20th, hasn’t it? First of all: YES, this is bad. This isn’t normal. We are not just being overly dramatic here. Even if you are middle-class and white and think that none of this will affect you — yes, it will. […]

What I’ve Been Up To

My attempt at making tiny clay animals led to my purchasing some acrylic paints. A sale at Michael’s led to… Well. This. I’m rather proud of this one, although it’s not finished. It got too wet, so I’m taking a break for it to dry some. A really cool bit is that I had some […]

A Little Something for V-Day

Invitation to Love Come when the nights are bright with stars Or come when the moon is mellow; Come when the sun his golden bars Drops on the hay-field yellow. Come in the twilight soft and gray, Come in the night or come in the day, Come, O love, whene’er you may, And you are […]

Cool Stuff Friday 02-13-15

Happy Friday the 13th! The only remaining holiday that Hallmark doesn’t have a card for (please don’t disabuse me if I am wrong)! It’s Mary Robinette Kowal’s birthday and she’s giving us gifts! Read her novelette here. Lifehacker found a tool called Twine that lets you create your own Choose Your Own Adventure stories. And […]

Cool Stuff Friday

Seen a couple of cool things this week. Firstly, the hilarious Who the F is My D&D Character: http://whothefuckismydndcharacter.com/ Second, play 2400 old school DOS games in your browser: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games And when you really need to stop procrastinating and get back to work: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/vip/~3/pHVTla_YPP8/forcedraft-doesnt-let-you-quit-writing-until-you-hit-yo-1678244018