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Repercussions in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
In the end, the biggest favour we may end up doing for Xueling is to have brought her to cosplay events. Because she's learnt that with enough effort you can put on the face of anyone you want,...
Well. What would _you_ do? in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
There's been this video going round lately, where they deliberately set up a nasty situation and see how people react. And I'm going to do this in a roundabout fashion. See, this is Boat Quay ...
We cannot control what other people do. But we can, ourselves, make things better. It's not as satisfying as going after the bad guys, but we can help much more by being the good guys. The most...
People die. People die and we don't know if they can see us or hear us when they're gone. But we can see them. We go to their graves and we give them flowers and we tell them that we love them an...
Samba, samba de kinoko in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
You can always recognise an worshipper at the First Church of the Mushroom God. It's the way, when you shock or surprise him, he shouts "Holy Shitake"
They build your houses. They do your housework. They clean your tables and drive your buses and cook your meals, and they teach your children, and they do all this because you deem yourself to be...
Gamma function (Flash fiction) in The Irresistible Urge to Write
"Gamma transient phenomena spiking, sir." The Station chief exhales a lungful of cigarette smoke, coalescing in the air before him like the crystallised soul of dying man. "Probability?" "Six...
Hugh Jorgen in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
watching Days of Future Past Caffeine: As Logan is waking up Whoa, he's buff. Me: as he climbs out of bed. And now he's in the buff. Caffeine: Argh. punch
Days of Fuchsia Past in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Magneto sees the pain that people have inflicted on him, and that is why he is afraid. Xavier sees the pain they suffer, and that is why he chooses to be kind. Mostly.
Telepresence in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
It's taken me a while to realise this, but photography is serving the same purpose for me as writing. It is not until I have a camera in my hands-- or sometimes thinking about it-- that the wo...
No. Seriously. We didn't do it at first, but then we thought it would be fun to bring her along And then we thought we could try dressing her up a bit. And then it got a bit out of hand...
Lullabye in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I have no vocal talent. I have been humming one tune for more than four years now, ever since Xueling allowed herself to be put to bed without Caffeine^, and I found that (a) she needed music to...
Faceted in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Someone dropped by last Sunday to play around for a couple of hours: I'm not sure how facetious that sentence was, but I can't think of a better way to explain it. This is Caffeine as Valerie...
Conversation in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Me: You know, dogs pretty much have two modes: Scary and derp. Caffeine: So you're a dog? Me: Me: Arf.
Point defence system in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
At taekwondo training on Sunday: Anton's a fellow red belt. He is also a kid. So the following is actually representative of what it's like training with him: Antonwhile I'm pointing out that a...
I put up a picture of Xueling recently, commenting that she was reading (well, "reading")my copy of Devil May Cry 3, and using it to show me that it was ok for people to eat pizza with their h...
Expressions of fear are not just expressions of fear. They license us to act out the darkest aspects of human nature. Being afraid harms no one. Telling everyone there is something to be afraid o...
No pressure in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
In the local cosplay community, I am in the equivalent of second division, both as a player and as a photographer. That doesn't mean I'm bad. Fig 1 It just means that I don't take part in com...
Last night (repost from OD) in The Irresistible Urge to Write
He thinks he sees her sometimes, in the barest flash of sodium streetlight off auburn hair between the strokes of night, but when he crosses the street to find her, she is already gone. And now...
Eyes of the mind in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Recently, Caffeine and I were arguing, and I pointed out that I'd seen her-- her current self-- long before it had surfaced. To which she responded that I didn't know her at all, that all the th...
Putting in the time in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
So... let's see. If you do just 20 kicks a week for a single kick, that's 1042 kicks a year. In ten years you'd be good enough to scare Bruce Lee.^ I started doing taekwondo in 1998. And I ...
For the birds in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
In keeping with my (intermittent) philosophy of finding new areas to expand my ability, I realised that my lens and camera combination give me a pretty good combination to go birding. My trouble...
Equipartition in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
People look at me and they see a nerdy geek approaching the near slope of middle age^, and they're right. Their mistake lies when they see it and look no further. Because thirty odd years in ...
I do a lot of writing to clarify my own thinking; sometimes something doesn't become real to me until I've written it out in my own words. And sometimes it takes someone else's words to crystall...
I'm not negotiating in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
True evil does not, despite Orwell, stomp its jackboot in your face forever. If it were, life would be much easier. No, true evil persuades you to put the jackboot on and kick your own face int...
