Blogs tagged "writing"

Yeah, I'm stupid—serendipitously stupid. Oh, life's rigged? Okay then, just be so stupid that you come out on top; th...

Fuck self-redemption. I can't do this shit alone. I hate this world, but I love the people in it enough to stick arou...

This morning has so far been going well, but almost too well. I've been feeling more manic these last few days, which...

We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened...

I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and...

My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It’s ragweed season. Unrelated: It’s time for...

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 295th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

How wise do our mentors need to be?

Make your projects 4-dimensional

TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization

08th September. 9:10 am.i woke up earlier than usual today morning. why? did i fall asleep early last night without c...

september 7th. 1:40 AM - 4:05AM. sunday night - monday morning.i try to write and fail. i set in my mind to start a b...

August 17, 2026, 14:00 PM.The last entry ended abruptly. Not artistically abruptly, no matter how much I try to poeti...

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thin...

I Don’t Have a Smartphone… …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and pro...

L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Quand bien même les chatbots ne seraient pas les produits de gigantesques ent...

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle —...

Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of diffi...

Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that cu...

“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”

Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this ...

A fun way to get people talking about what’s not working in a project & their ideas for what to do about it.

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of ...

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of ...

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less ...

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

Kicking rocks, it feels like.

Some lists of Bourdain's that I liked.

Thinking ahead.

Salutations, friends! It has been a time since I’ve had the notion of treating ChaoticanWriter.com as a place to talk...

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A tw...

Everyone said NO. Not this year. Not this time. Not this team. We were all wrong. But never before has being so wrong...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and tru...

Roguish 1920s adventurer Calvin Rafferty and gender non-conforming Miskatonic University academic Faye Bennett are de...

In the midst of a desperately cruel August, we ended up losing Tim Curry. He had a ton of wonderful performances to h...

The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...

I remembered Charles Barkley having a humorous reaction on a 2007 episode of Inside the NBA when confronted with news...

A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 ...

A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 296.

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...

I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I ...

Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder ...

Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and ...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Most people used to presume the Earth was the centre of the Universe. It sounded bizarre to others when Nicolaus Cope...