June 2011
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Words in Red (update)
I’m simplifying this process because, honestly, the path I was going to take was entirely too large of a chunk. No matter how many chapters I finished, I still had dozens more to do, and I’d really like to just finish the process. I may make an XML version of the New Testament at some point, but if I do, I’m going to properly format the XML file automatically, because a large...
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Mythology as Story Delivery Mechanism
I first noticed, while reading up on Greek Mythology for another project, that it was incredibly difficult to work up a chronology of events for any given mythological person (Heracles in that instance). The stories are spread over such a wide geographical, cultural, and temporal space that any attempt to link them all together runs into issues of what I’ve come to know as “personal...
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Projects
Current list of active projects:
RPG Setting: Far future setting based loosely on Norse mythology (the bifrost drive, a spacial shortcut called Yggdrasil, the Nine Worlds as a coalition of inhabited systems banded together for mutual defense).
RPG Setting: Modern urban fantasy setting based on native american (Pueblo tribes) mythology and religious belief (shamans, vision quests, Kachina...
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Handwriting Practice...
Among my other projects right now, I’m also working on improving my handwriting. It’s never been very good, so much so that from the third grade on my teachers refused to accept any handwritten assignments from me, and has only gotten worse over the years. At this point I can barely read my own scrawl.
Initially I figured I’d just gone out of practice, and that practicing by...
“To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.”
– Malcom Gladwell
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Words in Red...
As I’ve at least another week unemployed I’m using the time to do prep work on some projects. Among them is one I’d been thinking of off and on for several years. The notion of Christs teachings (as distinct from the analysis of them that have been being published in one form or another for a couple millenia) being similar if not identical to the teachings of Buddhism, has come...
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“If there are Gods, they do not help, and Justice belongs to the strong; but know...”
– Klingon proverb
Genre Fiction
Historically fantasy (and to a lesser extent science fiction) has been used to allow us to explore social issues that we couldn’t explore directly. Using other species (elves, dwarves, etc.) to explore issues of racism for example. When this is done well, we get great literature that lasts. When it’s done poorly (either there isn’t an issue being explored, or the fascade of the...
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Home Theatre PC
I’ve wanted to build one of these for a while, but somehow just never got around to working on. Recently I started backing up all of the TV series I have on DVD (to protect against scratched disks), so I started looking into this again. Goals I don’t have a lot to spend, so I want to focus this project as much as possible. I mainly plan to have it run TV episodes and movies through my...
