Or why I always found the term confusing. Leaving aside for a second whether more than just Cyberpunk, Steampunk, and Deiselpunk should exist (or that people are diluting the meaning of the word punk ...

Apparently "All Growed Up" happened, essentially the rugrats all grown up. By that point, and really by the time I was in my pre teen, but finalized in my teen years, I really started hating

I was a little bit sceptical about using it is, as my idea of simplicity must apparently be different from people who espouse it. However I am finding it extremely useful as an in between language between

Other writers have mentioned it, and I've tended to be a little to sparing about it. Though that has less to do with what I'm about to say not being true, and more that a lot of writers (who choose to

I had lived in an extended motel on the sixteenth floor, and rode to the bottom to catch a ride on a thorium car. As my escort drove me off, I saw a young woman, dressed as Mary Poppins, living in the

I'm not entirely convinced that having comment writers burn cash is really a solution to ultimately trolling issues, and the larger cultural problem of flame wars. It doesn't necessarily prevent writers

I used to write quite a bit on this one website, where lots of "famous authors" get to post to promote their books. At one point in General Fiction I was even promoted to literary, even though

There were days when I could read, If only for a little a while. The whining dog next door acts as if, I have no need. And yet I long to read, Bleeding for the pages long past. For pages are company, Pages

Chattanooga was like a town that played as a city; it was governed like one, and yet its size limited its tourism to merely the value of historical interest. Several new apartments were being built, and

Security through obscurity, often quoted yet so little understood. Repeated from the mouths of those who worship the echo chamber of tech giants. This despite the fact that throughout most of US history,

Of course, I don't mean website like Diaspora, GNU Social, Mastodon, Steemit, or DTube. But more specifically centralized websites. Particularly if the website in question is freemium, or even if perhaps

I've never been great in math, although I'm learning it largely by accident in learning to program in Ruby and Crystal. Cryptography has challenged a lot of my preconceptions about myself. In my efforts,

While I agree that education is necessary, we have different ideas of what constitute good education. Knowingly or not, who comes from the neo-liberal school of thought, that mandates state involvement