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Nothing But Dust Between the Ears

I spend a lot of time in my head. A lack of car in the bay area—a place hostile to anyone wanting to use public transit outside the center of Oakland, SF, and San Jose—means I don’t go out a lot. When I do, I’m either at the mercy of catching a ride with someone who has different goals for the outin...

Writing Navel Gazing Void
We Want BABYLAND

I <3 BABYLAND logo 1989–2009 drawn on the inside of a wrist Smith, the percussionist, sitting to the left of the picture behind a beat up black metal oil drum, tall metal poles or something in the center, and Dan, the singer, holding a microphone and a spray air freshener. On the wall behind them is a big sign that says NO STAGEDIVING surrounded by a lot of colorful graffiti An off-white teddy bear being held up in front of a graffiti covered wall A bright shower of sparks extend from the center of the picture and are largely pointed to the right, in the background is a human shaped blur illuminated by only the sparks, and some computer lights make a pattern from the long exposure and the jitter of the camera Smith, the percussionist playing a large brass instrument, probably a tuba? Surrounded by a metal oil drum and some pipes is a well worn black and yellow sticker that says TECHNOLOGY WORKS at the top and bottom, with four W arranged like a compass rose Smith, the percussionist, looking shocked as he holds a toy rotary saw against his arm near a scar. On the wall behind him are tshirts for sale, a red Bloodysnowman and a black BABYLAND one Dan, the singer, holding a green plush frog purse with his eyes closed and looking contenplative Smth, the percussionist, passionately providing supporting vocals to a song with a microphone that's suspended above his percussion station Dan, the singer, in profile as he wears a pink shirt, sprays an air freshener, and holds a microphone A half torn off Rock The Vote sticker on a blue plastic oil drum Metal pipes sit in the foreground as Smith lights a road flare with Dan standing to his side, the only light in the picture is the road flare

BABYLAND is one of my favorite...

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Nature Drop

Looking down from a mountain above a dip in the trees, most of the treeline is in shadow Looking up into a dogwood tree with a single bloom just left of center, and a grey sky behind A small green growth sprouts from the side of a redwood trunk The occasional white flower opens from long fuzzy red pods clustered at the end of stems A cluster of pink, peach, and yellow snap dragons, the grain of the image has been exaggerated noticeably Looking into a field of tall grass that's mostly yellowed and gone to seed, sunlight makes it look like it's glowing a bright rainbow cuts through a dark blue-grey sky above a business park with a few trees in front A vivid pink rose sits in the light of dusk, a number of unopened buds are among the leaves that surround it The Pacific ocean with a small wave crashing to the beach on a cloudy blue sky day, a few clumps of seaweed sit in the sand The Pacific ocean with fog lurking just on the horizon, a log sits in the sand to the left of the picture A bright yellow flower with a lot of delicate stamen extending the length of the petals, multiple spent blooms are in the background among the leaves A burnt orange lily with yellow accents in the center pokes out from a crowded planter of otherwise completely green plant matter A pair of redish pink lilies sit in front of an out of focus background filled with leaves and spent blooms ...

Flowers Daisies Beach Dandelions Grass Hibiscus Lake Lily Pinecone Poppies Rainbow Redwood Rose Snap Dragons
Ubuntu Font

w00t, got my font sorted out. Had some stupid where trying to apply css to someone else’s code meant I was getting some errors, but managed to suss out where the problem lie and get it close enough.

It would be really nice if the preview also used my custom css, so I could see my post in progress...

Gutenberg Ubuntu Font
Daisies

Playing with the Cover Template on the Twenty Twenty theme. Picture from a random excursion for Ingress purposes a while back.

Daisies Ingress
Molting

Welp, WP pushed an update that came with a new theme that’s supposed to take advantage of the newer features of their system. So, gonna give this a go. We’ll see if I find enough focus to really play with tweaking it, but for now at least it’s purple. I need to spend a little time finding all the bi...

Writing Red Bubble Theming
What is the darkness without the light?

Used to be, I was constantly writing shit on my LiveJournal. Just whatever the fuck was on my mind. I’m sure a lot of it was shit, but it was a thing I did. And I followed other people who did the same, and they wrote awesome things or mundane things, and I enjoyed reading and commenting.

I mean,...

Void LJ
Eternal Patrol

Wasting time on Pinterest takes too much of my time. I should probably stop doing it… but every once in a while I stumble across something pretty cool. This pin I’d come across before, but this time when I saw it, it started a ball rolling. TL;DR if you don’t want to click through: but US Naval tr...

Writing Eternal Patrol Humans Are Weird Star Trek Superstition
Forgiveness and Redemption

Does Tyler deserve a second chance? #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/DANd8SLEOp

— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) February 5, 2018

This question was intended to start twitter conversation, but it deserves so much more attention and care than Twitter would really allow. It’s...

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Passion Behind the Deli

A purple and yellow flower passion flower in front of leaves and buds Two purple and yellow passion flowers against a background of leaves with an unopened bud between them A side view of a purple and yellow passion flower, bathed in sunlight A purple and yellow passion flower with two partially opened buds in front of a brick wall A purple and yellow passion flower in shadow with an unopened bud, in front of a brick wall in full sunlight A side view of a purple and yellow passion flower with two partially open buds and leaves filling the background

So, I recently decided to re-purpose my brassfrog.net domain for something roleplay related (project still in early progress, so no idea when it launches), which...

Deli Passion Flowers
Pen is Mightier

It started in #wordcount:

misterroque
[09:07] Oh hey! I missed word day
[09:07] Sowhatwhocareswannafightaboutit

deathkitten
[09:08] pulls out her fountain pen and takes a fencing position
[09:08] I’ll fight you!

misterroque
[09:08] Aw shit
[09:09] Bringitbringitbringit
[09:09] En garde...

Writing Parrot Pirate Slack Sword Fighting
Raspberry Pi(rate) Box

First step was easy, grab the install image for the Pi via BitTorrent — it was well seeded, so I had that in no time flat. Next step was writing the image to the SD card, which I am ashamed to say was probably harder than it should have been; considering that I’ve been using one flavor of Linux or a...

Linux Pirate Box Raspi
On the Meeting of R & W

Sunlight filtered through the tree as Ronan lay on the quad lawn with his textbook. An ant crawled along the spine and Ronan flicked it away before turning the page — smashed ant might further lower the value of the book when he sold it back at the end of the semester. A shadow fell across the book...

Writing Wandering City Photography
I Needed That Egg

The space cowboy is orbiting Earth. It’s about hyper-surveillance. Word length: 400. #WriteMoreSciFi

SciFi Prompt Bot (@SciFiBotPrompt) March 28, 2017

The sun flooded through the observation port, blinding Maurice momentarily until he fumbled for the button that tinted the glass. Sunrise h...

Egg Scifi Prompt Bot Space Cowboy Writing Writing Prompt
Not All Cities That Wander...

The anarchist is in the wandering city. It’s about communication across huge distances. Word length: 1100. #WriteMoreSciFi

SciFi Prompt Bot (@SciFiBotPrompt) March 26, 2017

The sun sat high in the sky on the vernal equinox as Ronan stood in the shade of the Joshua tree. If he’d decoded the...

Scifi Prompt Bot Writing Writing Prompt Wandering City
Rise Up Into the Light

So, in my ever floundering efforts to try to and get myself writing more, I joined a Slack started by a Twitter friend that’s focused on writing. We chatter about all sorts of writing related things, and generally try to cheer on and help each other out. So far I’ve been less than pleased with my re...

Writing Writing Prompt Goals
Penguins and Computers

So, as I mentioned in my last rambling, I bought a new computer. I went with System76, because I felt it was important to buy a machine that was sold as a Linux machine first and foremost. Partially because it meant I knew it wouldn’t take a lot of fussing to get working (and let’s face it, I’m a...

n00b Laptop Linux
Flaming Broadsword

To the assholes who constantly roll ahead on their right hand turns without looking at the crosswalk first, then wave me along like they’re doing me a favor when they finally notice me glaring at them for trying to run me over? Fuck you. With a flaming broadsword.

Rant
Unicorn Softserve

So, I recently gave in and bought a new laptop. I was long overdue, my old one was seven and a half years old, a machine that had been a gift and was admitted by the gift giver to be the cheapest model in stock at the Best Buy on his way home from work on my birthday. Yeah. It was a Toshiba Satellit...

Writing Politics Photography Laptop
Electoral College

So, I’ve been a little quiet here lately. I had been overwhelmed by this toxic election cycle, and in the end, I did cast a vote for Hillary… not that it mattered much, since California always goes blue. I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter retweeting messages better phrased than mine, consid...

Politics Voting
Lobes For Business Run In The Family

With all the hot topics being political lately, I’m having a hard time coming up with a topic that isn’t politics for this week. I don’t want this to turn into a political blog. Fuck knows, there’s a lot to say, a lot that needs doing, so if I wanted to make this a political blog, I certainly would...

Writing Star Trek Gaming Time Travel
Twisting The Ballot Box Screw

When I got into the conversation with my boss recently about Clinton vs. Sanders, the thing that hit me the most as I pondered it afterwards as how firmly and repeatedly he was trying to give me the message that I needed to get in line, that all of Sanders supporters needed to get in line. Repeatedl...

Social Media Politics Voting First Past The Post Sexism Feel The Bern
The Pen And The Sword

One thing I hear a lot of people comment on is my choice to use colorful metaphor so frequently. The word fuck is not foreign to me, actually it’s probably one of the most comfortable to slide from my tongue because it’s so versatile — whole comedy routines have been written how multi-talented the w...

Politics Fuck Sexism Comedy Communication George Carlin Jon Stewart Language Meaning Seven Dirty Words
Time and Divergence

I run an online Star Trek RPG known as the USS Joshua Norton, and for those of you who aren’t familiar with this form of role play game, it’s pretty much a continuous work of collaborative writing. Like a Tabletop RPG, a game master (or rather the command team in this case) lays out a plot line fo...

Star Trek Gaming Time Travel Parallel Universes