What we need is hope, not vengeance.

I am consistently impressed by just how much I learn through storytelling. I built and tested a game where "theme" was a mechanic - in it, two alluring and almost-but-not-quite-oppositional principles wove themselves through the story over and over. I listed a bunch of established TV shows as examples. Hope and ( Read more... )

 I'm excited.

That intentional community project? The one that I thought of in 2003, couldn't get to fly for me and I'd mostly shelved?

In the last two weeks or so:

On June 13th, I thought about why intentional communities interest me and why I'd want to live in some but not others
Around the 26th, I realized that a remote film studio would work for ( Read more... )

After doing some character-background research into the history of immigration to Canada, I've come (back) to the conclusion that ( Read more... )

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I should explain that, years ago, I designed this calendar for "The Elchis Network," an intentional community federation or alliance or club or something. Each monad/node/polis/village whatever had some capacity for self-sustenance. They were by no means "entirely self-contained" (otherwise it wouldn't be a network) but a node could survive or at ( Read more... )

So how to do holidays and weekends ( Read more... )

Month        Date Range        Conversion from GC to NC
January        10 - 40             add 9 to the date in January
February      41 - 68            add 40 to the February date
March         69 - 99             +68
April          100 - 129          +99
May           130 - 160         +129
June           161 - 190         +160
July ( Read more... )

I like having a New Year that coincides with the Winter Solstice, making this Day 0.

Happy Day 0 of year... of year...?

2 006? I dunno. Pegging the calendar to start four years after the ( Read more... )

I often have dreams like this when I'm awake.

I find it wrong (counter-aesthetic, wasteful, immoral, bizarre, sick ( Read more... )