- The Names They Gave Me. I related to much of this, though my own name doesn't carry the same kind of personal cultural weight for me.
- 60 words and a war without end. This is just a really good and interesting read all around. It's a look at the history of this sentence: "That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate ( Read more... )

Man, WisCon is awesome. So, I'm totally going to talk about some of the panels I've been to (I say this every year, don't I? But I mean it this time! Please believe me?) and stuff, but first, I'd like to try to start a discussion here ( Read more... )

Hey guess what? Electric Velocipede published a poem by me, and you can read it right this very second!

And now I'll go back to bouncing up and down and being delighted more quietly. Carry on!

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So! My friends are neat, and they are designing and coding a roguelike game in seven days for the Seven-Day roguelike challenge. And I'm helping! I won't be doing any coding, but I'm writing up item descriptions, monster descriptions, help text, and most of the other text for the game. If you're interested to follow along with our exploits, Leslie ( Read more... )

Hello, the Internet! I have an important and pressing question for you: What's your favorite weird folktale or fairytale or legend or myth? Bonus points if you can tell me why you like it so much ( Read more... )

I'm just going to leave this here: cryptocurium. They totally make CTHULHU CHOCOLATES and DEEP ONE LOLLIPOPS. This is a thing. In the world. Just sayin'.

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So, tomorrow is the election day here in the U.S., and by all accounts the presidential election and a lot of others will be tight. Whether they will be tight because of those accounts is a matter which deserves some consideration, but in any event, you should vote. Yes, you. We have this really neat system - it's flawed, yes, and it could be ( Read more... )

I went to a really good and interesting training session for election officials on Friday. It was titled "Election Official Ethics", but the presenter admitted that it might better be titled "Election Integrity". The class was essentially a look at two different issues troubling the voters - voter fraud, and election fraud. Concerns about voter ( Read more... )

It occurred to me that it might be a smart idea to post something publicly, right up at the top of my journal, so that folks who wander over from therealljidol or theferrett's journal will know who I am. I probably should have done this earlier, but I can be a bit of a doofus at times, and I forgot.

So, hi! I'm Cislyn, aka lrig_rorrim. Most of the public posts over this-a-way are ( Read more... )

So, I got a very typical political email this morning that kind of (ok, really) made me grumpy. This is the essence of the email: "Hey, the Other Guys have raised GOSH TONS of money just last month! We raised some, but they raised more! They're WINNING the money war. I mean, it's not all about money, but it TOTALLY IS! GIVE US CASH NOW OR THEY'LL ( Read more... )