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I have started watching Bones. I greatly enjoy Bones (the show). Except I hate Bones (the character ( Read more... ) -
On friendzoning
Friend-zoning has become rather condemned. I am torn, because while I see definite problems with many of the situations where people complain they've been friendzoned, I think they're using the term outside its original concept.
"I don't want to damage the friendship"To me, friendzoning is about asking a girl (or guy) out and being met with this ( Read more... ) -
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There is one trend in modern academia I cannot stand ( Read more... ) -
Why the Movie Avatar is Vile and Wrong
Many science fiction fans loved the movie Avatar. They're all wrong; and I shall tell you why ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on point systems in wargaming
A post over on quirkworthy got me thinking. Many of the oldest guard in gaming criticize point systems as encouraging a competitive mindset, limiting imagination, encouraging gaming the point system rather than the game, and simply being incapable of ever accurately encompassing all the factors in the creation of a wargaming force ( Read more... ) -
Why I Hate the Word Networking
Why I Hate the Word Networking ( Read more... ) -
A thought on immigration
The National Post did a story on Chinese immigration to PEI, and a comment caught my eye. It went on about how the Chinese were colonizing us, and how we'd all be swept away 'neath a tide of Mandarin and tea. There was peril, here, of a distinctly yellowish nature.
That is, of course, the great fear with immigrants. That they way they reshape ( Read more... ) -
On the shame of reading licensed fiction
For some reason, I'm far more embarrassed to read licensed sci-fi or fantasy than I ever am to read non-licensed sci-fi or fantasy. And I figured out why this is ( Read more... ) -
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Editing is a tricky thing ( Read more... ) -
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In my time in law school, I have come to the conclusion that there are three concepts on which the entire common law hangs. Everything else is decoration, meant to conceal that law isn't necessarily that hard or justify these rules because we feel uncomfortable with the uncertainty some of them provide ( Read more... )