I’ve been joking for years that if I ever ended up needing a CPAP mask, I’d incorporate it into a facehugger. Because obviously. Well, I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnia, and now have my own CPAP torture machine. Seriously, these things are awful and create as much discomfort as they prevent. So I may […]
New And Improved Do Not Mean The Same Thing
I’m sitting here listening to Bauhaus and carving myself a custom pillow with a bigass kitchen knife. This is the kind of shit I do on a Friday night. Because I am a perfectly normal human worm baby who does totally normal things, just like everyone else. Why am I Frankensteining myself a new pillow? […]
Tinker Gnome: MAPP Gas Pop Gun
I share with you now my latest Tinker Gnome Project: The MAPP Gas Pop Gun. Like most of my tinker projects, it’s impractical, voids every warranty within a hundred miles, and has just as much chance of hurting me as of providing entertainment. I originally stumbled across Al’s “Plasma” pop gun in a video on […]
Amazon Stripping Sales Ranks When Authors Promote Their Work
Recently, there’s been a new uproar over Amazon authors who run BookBub promotions having their sales ranks stripped in response, sometimes within minutes. I’ve heard other reports that this happens with a lot of other legitimate promotions in addition to BookBub. Unlike many authors who’ve been (understandably) railing against the personal harm this has inflicted […]
Krista D Ball and The Strong Female Character Trope
My wife showed me a wonderful, though long, post by Krista D Ball about the trope of the Strong Female Character, how it goes wrong, and how that’s not necessarily what we need anymore. I agree with pretty much everything she wrote. I’ve never fully understood the obsession with making every single female character “strong”, […]
Kerbal Space Program – Lithobraking At Its Best
I’ve played a lot of videogames over the years, from my first Atari 2600 to the 111 games in my Steam library. I’ve put an absurd number of hours into gaming, probably more than any other pursuit aside from sleeping. Unsurprisingly, I have Opinions on the games I play. I have to say that, of […]