People in glass houses shouldn’t.
Judith Weller.People in glass houses shouldn’t.
Making Do
Once, when I was a kid, the people running the one electricity company in Queensland at the time had a huge workers’ dispute. So huge that the electricity was shut off for a large amount of time.
Such worker’s action did highlight how necessary the employees were, but it also inconvenienced the people who had no voice: the public.
The politicians and the higher-ups could afford their own generators and weren’t effected by the blackouts. It may
Read more »The Alien in the Playground
You can spot her from a mile away. The one kid playing alone. Lost in her own little world. She clearly wears a mixture of hand-me-downs and homemade clothing when all the other children are wearing clothes, relatively new, from the shops.
Some other children are approaching her. Even from this distant vantage point, you can tell their intent is not friendly. They are all bigger than her. Together, they could beat her into a pulp, but violence is not their pastime
Read more »Biting the hand that feeds it. I’m not naming names, but anyone who follows Slashdot knows that a very big publishing corporation is...
Biting the hand that feeds it.
I’m not naming names, but anyone who follows Slashdot knows that a very big publishing corporation is suing an author for contractual violations. Her violation? Taking a completely different book to get published on Amazon.
Sure $20000 is a relatively small steak, but the big stakes here are authors leaving the publishing corp’s for nicer pastures. The publishers know this, but instead of going after Amazon, another big company that can afford
Read more »Sleep Dep' is no Fun
For those unfamiliar with the abbreviation, that’s sleep depravation. But I’m way too tired to type out the whole thing, today.
Just last week, we received a nice letter from a neighbour that boiled down to “shut up your annoying dog or we’ll start legal action”.
$300 later, the dog has an expensive citronella anti-bark collar and a buttload of toys and chewy treats to keep him occupied. He barely makes a peep.
The
Read more »Dollar Shop Economic Theory
I’ve had this one baking on the back burner for quite some time. And since I have nothing else in my head but brewing brony tales, I figured I’d best get this out of my head to make some room.
The Dollar Shop is a phenomenon out my way, where you can walk into a shop and get an item [or a number of items] for a dollar a piece. Some cost more than a dollar. Many cost
Read more »Harsh Truths we Should all Live With
These are truths I had to learn, myself. They’re not nice. Life is not nice. Neither are people you meet within it. Most of this is about them.
Though everyone is unique, you a not a special little snowflake. There are folks who think that just because they’re different, or think they have some kind of gift, then they’re entitled to special treatment. Not so. If you’re unique, then so’s everyone else.
Read more »Time for a New System
No system is perfect. Communism collapses because people like being in power and refuse to give it up for the finishing steps. Capitalism as we know it is about to collapse because people in power etc. etc., and we are genetically geared to want all the marbles and only share with our personal genes.
We seriously need a new system before it all falls over into barbarism, a new dark age, war, pestilence, dogs and cats living together and all that end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it
Read more »What theme do you use on your blog?
I need something that shows off italics and bold-face type [My recent change reflects that priority] and is also easy on the eye [which my current choice is not].
Any recommendations from the blogosphere?
Read more »Paperback Writer vs. my WIPs
…and some publishing knowledge I gleaned from being in a writer’s club.
Be warned, this post contains excerpts of the Beatles’ song, Paperback Writer. Use of said lyrics is not intended to infringe on the copyright of the song, profits from any Beatle’s estate, or any other legal fiction you can cook up. This is done solely without profit for the purposes of entertainment without any expectation of monetary recompense whatsoever.
There. Legalese done with…
Read more »The Executive/Corporate Checklist
This information is pulled strictly out of my arse. By and large, it is not meant to be representative of the corporate atmosphere and is evidently extrapolated from what one statistical outlier[ie, not a White, Anglo-Saxon Male aged 18-35] can observe in her few encounters with the business world.
Executive Corporate Checklist [According to Me] to Making a New Image
[1] Phone billions of households when they are the most inconvenienced and tie the poor bastard who answered the phone up
Read more »This just in! Apple Corp == Intellectual Property Thieves!
I read new T&C very carefully, folks. And I was alarmed by this passage in the iCloud T&C:
“However, by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform such Content on the Service for the purpose for which the Content
Read more »I can't brain, today.
I have the dumb.
It’s been bought on by a combination of late nights and bad sleep, both through circumstances I can’t control (I’m a Mum, remember?).
I shall be working on tomorrow’s entry in the rare moments when cognisance presents itself. Slowly, so I don’t hurt my wrist. And possibly fuelled by an endless stream of caramel mochachinos.
Then again, given how weirdly poetic I get on sleep dep, I could
Read more »Here, I tried to encapsulate what’s wrong with the economy as well as why folks who buy from corporations are protesting corporations....
Here, I tried to encapsulate what’s wrong with the economy as well as why folks who buy from corporations are protesting corporations. (Like there’s a viable alternative to buying from corporations…)
I think I nearly sprained my hand drawing this. I have teh fail. [Again, click the pic for the HUGE version]
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Less words typed == more time to rest my poor wrists. I think the scribble here pretty much says it all :) [Click for the HUGE version]
Less words typed == more time to rest my poor wrists.
I think the scribble here pretty much says it all :) [Click for the HUGE version]
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