Name: T.X. Watson
Date registered: 2013-05-14
Jabber / Google Talk: tshamma
May 22
Amazon is putting together a platform to legitimize fanfiction! Yay! Sort of. Well, not really. I found out about Kindle Worlds through John Scalzi’s blog, where he posted his initial thoughts, and I have some initial thoughts as well, mostly building off and responding to his. Amazon Worlds gets all the rights to your story …
May 21
I don’t normally have enough of an opinion on each episode of Game of Thrones to write about it, but I’ve seen the latest one three times now, it being a convenient social activity for visiting friends. (I’ve had more visiting friends in the last two days than I think I’ve had before now this …
May 20
So — I didn’t know about Oragel. This seems like a pretty massive oversight to me, because I’ve had an increasingly painful toothache for like three years now. Okay, to be honest, I did know that Oragel was something that existed, that was used in connection with tooth pain. I did not know that it …
May 20
On the previous incarnation of this blog, I had a lot of Minecraft stuff. I had a Minecraft category for a while, frequently made use of the Minecraft tag, and, for a while, kept a commitment to post about it every time I played. (That quickly got old, as I ran out of stuff …
May 17
The Office ended yesterday — unlike Community, this one I’m sure is over. I have a lot of feelings about it, and I’m not totally sure how to put them together. When I started watching the Office, Steve Carell had already left the show. He’d been gone for a while, actually — I pretty much …
May 17
Esther Inglis-Arkell at io9 posted an article called An experiment shows how people deliberately sabotage themselves, in which she explains that self-sabotage is not a subconscious impulse, but a clear, conscious decision: Two researchers, Edward Jones and Steven Berglas, asked students to take a test. They pretended to score the test and happily told the …
May 16
Alan Moore is a great writer, and it’s a lot of fun to watch him talking about the craft of writing. The reason I think it’s fun is because he takes it very seriously, and I’m generally pretty sure he’s right. Not about the metaphysics, because he thinks writing is literally magic, but about all …
May 16
I’ve read the Great Gatsby twice — once in high school, and once last year when John Green encouraged Nerdfighters to join in reading it. The first time, I liked it a little. The second time, I liked it a lot. And it never occurred to me to wonder about whether Gatsby was actually white, …
May 15
I follow a handful of mens’ fashion blogs on Tumblr, because I like fashion and dresses don’t have pockets. Today, I follow reblogged another fashion blog, that saw fit to extend its purview beyond clothes, and into writing. The post was called “Stylish Punctuation,” and it’s linked here but its main thesis was that people …
May 15
I’m staying at a hotel next month, for Readercon, a science fiction and fantasy writers’ convention. With this or other conventions, I generally stay in about one hotel a year, so when I see articles about the secret inner-workings of hotels, I’m always curious. Some of these are a little squicky — I’m certainly never …
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