Thursday, June 30, 2011

Systems

A lot of people do not understand something very important about our modern world. That thing is the wide array of very complex systems that exist all around us to make what we have possible. Today, I would like to discuss a few of those systems, and compare them to some fictional ones.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

In a vain attempt to keep to some kind of regular posting schedule, here is another short story I wrote the other day:

Saturday, June 18, 2011

My apologees for the week-long absecnce, as an explanation I offer only that Portal 2 exists. Today I am actually going to post an entire story, something very new(written just the other day), so new I haven't even found an appropriate quote for it. I hope at least someone enjoys it:


Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Well, I’m honestly surprised this subject hasn’t come up, but today I am going to address formatting. Its actually something very important, and can make or break your writing. There are of course an infinite number of styles and no one is correct, but today we’re going to look at a few tricks you can use no matter what to make your work read better.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

There is a mars mission profile out there called “Mars to Stay”, which involves sending a group of people to Mars and then not bringing them back. It makes fiscal sense as apparently you can send 20 people there for the price of bringing one back, or land an entire well-equipped lab on the surface for less than the cost of bringing back 50-60 kilograms of rock(about 100lb, for those of you who’d don’t speak metric). The curious part is, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have any trouble finding volunteers.