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Huh
You know, my first teaching job was at a mission school in Singapore. (I didn't get to choose. Presumably they didn't either.) My boss asked me to cross out my religion field marked "atheist" an...
From Nanowrimo forums: Beat it
OP: One problem. I have no idea what its like to both A) get beat up or B) beat someone up. Me: ... there are the memories that you forget because they don't mesh up with the way you see th...
Sir, that is NOT a device port
If companion robots were to ever be invented exist, one might consider that they only love because they're programmed to. And this would be sad until one considers that this is also true for hum...
Delta
My education does not make me better than you. Your continued and willful ignorance, however, certainly makes you worse than me.
Expertise
Expanding on a thought I had earlier in regards to a question on fantasy: There are two kinds of experts. There is being an expert the same way that a vehicle mechanic is an expert on cars. And...
From nanowrimo forums: What the actual fus rho da
OP: My antagonist is an abusive father. There are two innocent eight-year-old changelings whom he has beaten, emotionally manipulated and attempted to kill. However, he only does this because he ...
I get odd questions
L: Need your opinion, for a spacecraft travelling at 80% the speed of light, how damaging would a asteroid impact on the hull be? Assume the spacecraft to be 1/2 the size of a battleship with equ...
Well, there you go
Something my competition team learnt yesterday: When you're going head to head with everyone, good enough... isn't.
Happy Anniversary
Today was our 9th anniversary, and, for some reason, Caffeine decided that she'd like a poem for it. She asked for it again first thing in the morning too, so I was pretty sure she was serious. ...
From Facebook: Storyteller
We need the stories and the people who show us the best of human nature. Yes, the world is not a good place and it is not a simple place and there are sometimes no good choices to be made. And ...
Truth is, she kind of attracts assholes
Xueling got attacked in the playground again. This time, she decided to go and play with a burly boy on a carousel, not realised that the kid had already shoved another, younger kid off multiple...
From Nanowrimo forums: Premature
OP: What would make a person's hair go white at an early age? A lot of people: Genetics. KM: Yes, my mom's went white at 22. Me: I'm constantly amazed tat mine didn't go white after I was born...
Incremental
The first step is to recognise that we are not as good as we think we are. The second step is to do better.
From Facebook: For this, he paid Mormony
Dear Sauron, The reason you're this emo dark lord in a land where the shadows lie is because you went overboard during renovation. Stop doing this Mordor concept and go with Morwindo to let so...
From work: Grinder
I will always work this way: step by step, with nothing left out, exploring every step and corner of the question I'm looking at until I'm sure that there is nothing left to see. And that means ...
From nanowrimo forums: Anthill inside
OP: My MC has to fulfill a prophecy by discovering a powerful magic. The problem is, I have no idea how ze would find/discover it. Can anyone help me out? Me: After receiving your undergraduate ...
To be fair, he wasn't to know.
J-Obsession was on from Friday to Sunday (I'll do a photo entry later), and, probably due to certain recent events, cosplay has been quite a bit more high profile lately. We had a few videograph...
And today I learnt...
Today was my first real sparring match in a decade, and the master put me up against a black belt due to the weight and reach advantage I'd have against anyone else. So. My ability to pressu...
But we knew that (my Facebook status today)
When I was in secondary school, one particularly elfin girl shaved her hair down to a brush cut for reasons unknown to me. For about two months, I could always tell when she was coming down the...
Open request for help
Is there any way to download our books? Is there any way to look at a calendar-type page of our entries?
From nanowrimo forums: Some days I really don't help
OP: I want to rewrite Evita as a science fiction story. How can I make it original? Me: I imagine that depends heavily on how much Evita you want in your original, non-Evita story.
From nanowrimo forums: temptation
OP: What does a nihilist do all day? Me not saying: Nothing, but extremely aggressively and Byronically in an attempt to get laid.
The solution to being oppressed by the power an authority wields over you is not, in fact, to give yourself over to another authority in the hope that you prefer this particular flavour of submis...
From facebook: works well when you get to write the story.
Fanboy logic: given the right circumstances Batman can take down any superhero or villain. Ergo, he is the most awesome hero ever. My countering troll logic: given the right circumstances I can ...
Convolution
Just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean that it doesn't matter to me. Recognising that is the key to realising that people don't have to be the same to understand and get along; reco...
Book Description
Epiphanies, sarcasm, opinions and thoughts that may or may not fit in 140 characters.
