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Every good guy thinks of themselves as the good guy. This is a given. They are doing the work of the gods, what they do is important. The cool thing is, even the bad guys see themselves as the heros of their own personal story. Mao, Hitler, Stalin, all thought of themselves as the hero, …
The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy “wetlands.” Fetid “dumps” are often rebranded as green “landfills.” Global warming was once a worry about too much heat. It implied that man-made carbon emissions had so warmed the planet that life as we knew it …
Where do I get my ideas – Ray Bradbury The Journal Of Science-Fiction Fall 1951 Now that five long years of work on The Martian Chronicles are over and done, it is interesting, to me at least, to look back and see where the sources of my inspiration and material lay. It is startling to …
Making a writing routine that works every time. My procrastination knows no bounds, and it was whilst I was researching something unnecessary for a book I was writing I came across the idea of ‘activation energy’. Activation energy is the least possible amount of energy which is required to start a reaction. And it got …
Let’s be clear: My pronouns are “he,” “his,” and “stop being creepy weirdos.” Okay, maybe the last one isn’t a pronoun, but then again, I’m a man and if I want an insulting string of words directed at the nattering nabobs of gender neutrality to be a pronoun, it is a pronoun. And if you …
…had plans for today. Something to ponder. Makes me think twice about how I treat others and the day I have been blessed with and often waste.
I give it another six years before the incessant warnings about “global warming” become warnings about “the next Ice Age”. Again. The trend for fall snow across the northern hemisphere has been increasing, defying the forecasts over the last two decades for snows becoming an increasingly rare event. The 10-year running mean of the Boston …
How about a jacket that has a built in backpack. It would need straps, but they can be built in, invisible and more comfortable as the arms woudl take some of the load as well.