Shoutout to all those people who click the $0 option in “Pay What You Want” items.
You have NO idea what goes into doing the thing.
[Or you’re completely broke, in which case, I forgive you]
Star Trek: Into Darkness - One Dork's Opinion
Massive spoilers for the movie under the cut.
Mr Abrams… You’re directing the thing that caused thousands of nerds like myself to study things like physics and sundry other sciences in order to help make the reality that got us hooked. You should therefore NOT FUCK UP PHYSICS, YOU FUCK!
Shit, man.
Seriously. The half-a-planet looked awesomely cool and all, but that was a still shot from a damned incipient planetary disaster. That half-moon in contact with the main
Read more »Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
[Thus go the way of all things, for those who know less Latin than I]
My lunchbox Mac Mini up and died an entire year before its expected expiry date, and now all my fictions are locked up safely in a portable drive until such time as it can be connected to a computer that can handle it.
I’m starting to get really, really pissed off at Apple. $2K minimum for a computer that works fabulously… but when it
Read more »sexuallycanadian: I AM GOING TO PUNCH SOMEONE See? This is why we can’t have nice things. Idiots like the WBC blaming everything on...
I AM GOING TO PUNCH SOMEONE
See? This is why we can’t have nice things.
Idiots like the WBC blaming everything on the homosexuals. Or telling us it was a message from God, saying -in essence- “you stop that Homo shit now”.
Jesus fucking Christ on a bicycle…
God did not send the bombs. The hands of a human made those bombs, and put those bombs there. Three people died. twenty-something more were hurt.
And, very
Read more »Well, this sucks.
I got a court order today. Delivered into my hand. Specifically into the hand of [and I’m quoting the dude who was reading off a script] “the InterNutter who claims to have written a work entitled ‘Misfits’, lately to appear in Google Drive?”
It was a Cease and Desist from Little, Brown Books in general and Stephanie Meyer in particular.
Seems my fic bears an astonishing resemblance to Ms Meyer’s latest series to come
Read more »Male Privilege in the Media: Hart of Dixie
I like entertainment as much as anyone else, but I’m afraid I’m getting very jaded. Possibly more so now than ever as I round the horn into middle age and everything available just looks increasingly like More of the Same.
I objected to Big Brother when it was new. To my eyes, reality television is neither reality nor television. Just like white chocolate is neither white nor chocolate.
Anyway, onwards to my actual point.
I have, until recently,
Read more »Another rant for another time #5: Climate change, not global warming
To everyone who says, “So much for global warming,” every time they so much as glimpse a frigging snowflake:
THE IGNORANT MEDIA COINED THE TERM ‘GLOBAL WARMING’ AND NOT THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY!
Aaaah. Got that off my chest.
Scientists never actually called it “global warming” unless they were talking down to some media presenter. We all know media presenters, especially the American ones. They have the mean IQ of an concussed lemming. And I’m
Read more »Another rant for another time #4: Toxic media industry
Most folks know about the toxic fashion industry. And the unattainable, photoshopped “beauty” in most, if not all, ladies’ magazines. It’s a big thing.
Well, porn is toxic, too. It just doesn’t get talked about because it mentions male floppy bits instead of ladies’ floppy bits. Nobody wants to mention that filth. Euw!
Except for me, because I’m a certified weirdo.
Porn almost exclusively relies on fantasy. The ladies are all attractive.
Read more »Another rant for another time #3: Overpopulation and the food crisis
I keep coming back to a webcomic I found where one of the characters says to a child, “There’s enough room in Texas for everyone in the whole world.” [Quote from memory, may not be verbatim]
It bothers me.
A lot.
Five seconds on Google reveals that the surface area of Texas is 261 914 square miles. That’s 6.78354146x10^11 square meters. About 67 835 414 600 if you want to take it long-form.
Given
Read more »Another rant for another time #1: Repentance vs Religion
I made a promise and I’m that honest that I have to at least try to see it through. All grist for the thing-a-day. I will make a concerted effort to stay on topic, because otherwise this theme could last me the rest of my life.
Stand back. I’m about to get outspoken.
Here’s a bombshell for you. You do not have to be religious to repent.
Amazing.
I know, I know. The word “repent&
Read more »Writer Rants: Breath vs Breathe
This is one of the ones that chafes my niblets something fierce.
Ranting in three… two…
I’ll get this out of my system, now, and move on to more civilised discussion with a clear head.
Ahem.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME GODDAMN WORD, PEOPLE!
Aaaahh. I feel so much better.
I am sick and tired of people treating “breath” and “breathe” as interchangeable whenever they write. So let me make it clear.
“Breath&
Read more »Words an author never wants to hear
“We think your novel will make an excellent kids’ series.”
“How about [Completely wrong actor] to play the part of [Your hero(ine)]?”
“We love it, but can we cut the [Entire point of the whole damn book]?”
Hey, Hollywood. How about you trust that we did our best to write a good book and at least try to be faithful to the actual content?
Not that I’ve got close to getting there,
Read more »It's OK to trust in God...
You know damn well there’s a huge, neon rainbow “but” attached to that title.
It’s okay to trust in God (or the Higher Power of your choice)
BUT…
Trust, also, that God gave you brains to think with, ears to listen with, and eyes to see.
Any Higher Power worth the time/energy/effort of worship would know that a bunch of rules written down thousands of years ago may not hold as technology improves,
Read more »Disaster Cascade
I tripped on a chair, stubbed my toe, and completely bolloxed the heel of the same foot in the space of a few seconds.
In the process of hobbling to bed, I did something horrible to the opposite knee.
I need crutches just to get around, but before I got them, the rheumatism in both my wrists flared up and I needed to put my bracers on.
24 hours later, I’m not that much better.
My heel still hurts like
Read more »Farging roadblocks!
No, this is not about traffic.
I seem to be cursed to stay at or above 91.9 kilos.
I bounced back up into solid 92kilo turf, today. Grrr.
I’m so mad at myself and frustrated and tired and, to add insult to injury, my right knee has decided to join my wrists in the Painful Rheumatism Club.
Which means I more or less have to rely on diet alone on the days when it’s painful to move.
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