"Marshall Mc Luhan wrote a book called The Medium is the Message. He documents the five principles of technology. At one point all technology folds in on itself and has the opposite effect that it was created for. An automobile is created to give you freedom and mobility, but taken to its extreme, the streets filled with cars cause a traffic jam ( Read more... )

"Write down a list of what you enjoyed doing at (an) early time in your life. Chances are, you have the innate ability to enjoy that, because you were designed to do it. Hardwired for it. Making that list puts your dreams into the three-dimensional material world. It shows you that your thoughts are already affecting physical reality.

"You make the ( Read more... )

I'm sick.  It stinks.  I've barely been able to get up all day.  (Gisselle, I'm sorry I didn't call you back, but I literally have no voice--massive sore throat/scratchy thing going on.)

However, lying on my back unable to move means I was able to finish True Blood season 2.  :D  Spoilers behind the cut as I muse.

( Mostly positive thoughts behind the cut )

Any school kid knows who Alexander the Great was, at least the basics: he's the Greek guy who conquered the known world, and possibly the greatest, most ambitious General-King who ever lived.

You have to read more about him to hear the name Hephaistion.  Unlike Alexander, whom historians have a good grasp on, Hephaistion is mostly lost to the ages: ( Read more... )

Just a month until NaNoWriMo!  I can't believe this is gonna be my third year participating--my first in the USA, though.  I have a friend from school who says he knows writing groups up here, so hopefully NaNoWriMo will be a more interactive experience for me this year.  YAY ( Read more... )

In my experience, technology that originates in Japan tends to diffuse its way through the western world a few years later, especially when it comes to cell phones.  All the technology we have now--cameras, TVs, text messaging--started there and moved out.  Which is one reason why this new trend of books and manga published on cell phone is so ( Read more... )

So, I'm on a website called "absolute write" that is, for the most part, absolutely fabulous for aspiring writers like me.  It's got discussion about every aspect of publishing, and of course, there's lots of people to critique your work.

So I'm trying to wrest together this original story now (I've been working on it for months), and I told ( Read more... )