Meandering Monday about the Fickleness of Fantasies

Did you ever find yourself disappointed in a movie because the dragons just don’t look real? (What does a real dragon look like, anyway?) We like our fantasies to be realistic. Of course, we want the negative, frightening, and painful fantasies to be unlikely (like Aliens), but that’s another matter. Back to dragons: who knows … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: How Technology Joins and Separates Us and the Real World

In my youth, I used to see someone jogging through the neighborhood with a set of headphones on and joke that they were being remotely controlled. To some extent that was true; they weren’t completely immersed in their physical surroundings – they were augmenting it with music, then later with conversation as cell phones began … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Perception and Reality

What makes us who we are? The experiences we have lived through (or some we have experienced through others.) Our brushes with our world – with our reality. What makes up our reality? As humans (sometimes I think I might be one), we use short-cuts for a lot of things. We have so many things … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Planetary Pravda

How hard is it to brainwash a society? Misinformation can be disinformation – the deliberate efforts of Pravda, or Orwell’s Ministry of Truth or other bad actors to keep their populations under control by preventing them from interacting with INCONVENIENT TRUTHS. Or it can simply be that people in the Soviet Union – and even … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Muddled Meandering

I’m sick. I had a rather poor showing in the writing department last week; I’ll go into the details Wednesday, but I had hoped to make up words toward my quota. Instead, I came down with the crud that’s been going around the office, so even though I COULD have chosen to write from my … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: What (N)ever Happened To…?

Where’s my jet pack? Those things were going to be the wave of the future when I was growing up – we were all supposed to have one. Flying cars were a bit out there and not realistic (The Jetsons WAS a cartoon, after all), but jet packs were guaranteed to be in my future, … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Re-Aligning Goals with Life

I’m not throwing in the towel – just getting a different one… We are now fully into our family’s “Holiday Season”; October through mid-January includes Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New-Year’s and a couple of birthdays, and all the activity surrounding this would normally make trying to work on Swordsmaster difficult if not impossible, and with the … Continue reading →