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Learning to travel again
I recently returned from three weeks in Europe with P. Before I get started with the trip itself, I thought I’d jot down some notes about the travel experience itself. Over the last couple years, I...
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Ireland in four days (Part 1)
It’s been over a month, and I haven’t actually written anything about my travels, other than to make some observations about traveling styles and experience. Time to put pen to paper, as it were, and...
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Ireland in four days (Part 2)
My travelogue for our Grand Tour continues. I don’t have a lot to report for the next three days, as I was working. The weather was lovely, and completely counter to any expectations I had. Each...
View ArticleGNU Terry Pratchett
The news is a little old now, but I wanted to acknowledge Terry Pratchett’s passing. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. —...
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Alien: Isolation is quiet… a little too quiet…
I return to the elevator lobby, having repaired the security hacking tool that will get me into the lift, and up to the Sevastopol’s comms room, where I hope to get a ride out of this space station....
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It 2017 – nostalgia and criticism
The 1990 miniseries adaptation if It was my gateway into the horror genre. I was too young at the time to see it as a coming-of-age story that unfairly gave physical form to the terrors each individual...
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Steam does not care if you play games
I haven’t played a game seriously in months. I spent August and September travelling, and while I was away Blizzard completely rebuilt Mercy from the ground up. Mercy was my main (by a long shot), so...
View ArticleOn writing and sharing
I’m back. Well, I don’t know if I’m back back, but I guess I’ve got some things to write, and I’ve been rethinking how I do that. Obviously, Facebook’s recent controversies have something to do with it...
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It doesn’t seem fair
This one’s difficult to write. Last week our youngest cat was hit by a car. We don’t know what she was doing on the road. Piper was a homebody. She was allowed out unsupervised, but had never shown any...
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Farewell Cleo
Early in the morning of 2 November, Cleo left us. It’s been a week, but we’re still adjusting. I kind of didn’t want to write another post, but it feels wrong to give Piper a send-off, but not Cleo....
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