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Moving day
The shadow has been looming for months. But it’s just a few days away now, and there’s nothing in my power that can change it. I wouldn’t...
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Rob
- Apr 28, 2019
- 3 min
Avengers: Endgame thoughts
When I sat down to write this, it was going to be a review. But I hadn't gotten too far into it before I realized that it was something...
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Rob
- Dec 22, 2017
- 4 min
The world's worst books
I posted a couple of my thoughts about Ready Player One earlier; short version - I wasn't a fan. But there was a silver lining to having...
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Rob
- Oct 12, 2017
- 2 min
It's time to repeal the 2nd amendment
I am numb over the events that happened in Las Vegas last week. I am numb that I now seem to be able to take in stride that hundreds of...
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Rob
- Aug 17, 2017
- 3 min
The flaw in flawless fictional worlds
I recently finished reading Ready Player One. It had a couple of cool ideas but it felt like I was reading fan fiction, the tone was all...
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Rob
- Jul 27, 2017
- 3 min
Who needs civilization, anyway?
I was reading a review of some works by Paul Kingsworth, and it got me thinking about the idea of civilization. I haven't read any of his...
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Rob
- Jun 3, 2017
- 4 min
Unless
The problem with taking a kids' book and adapting it into a full-length motion picture is that there's not enough stuff in most kids's...
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Rob
- Mar 30, 2017
- 3 min
Why Monopoly is a failure that we keep playing
I think it was back in college when I first came to realize that Monopoly was a terrible game. I had grown up playing it, of course, like...
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Rob
- Feb 19, 2017
- 2 min
Antibodies
So, news flash: the USA is sick. Due to some interesting "quirks" in our electoral system, we've somehow managed to elect a narcissistic,...
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Rob
- Sep 28, 2016
- 2 min
Consumer product engineering: the thankless task
Something bittersweet happened last weekend. Poor longsuffering Shadowcat, my wife's 2006 Saturn Ion, was finally sent to live on a farm....
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Rob
- Aug 27, 2016
- 3 min
Respect, real and otherwise
Early on in my career, I lived in perpetual fear of software engineers. I realize that most of us probably do, of course; the low-grade...
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Rob
- Jul 16, 2016
- 4 min
Old games and memory
One of my friends at work brought this thing in to the office a few months ago. A bunch of us gathered around and talked while trying to...
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Rob
- Jul 11, 2016
- 3 min
What has to happen
The new post was sitting there in my drafts folder, 80% done, needing just a little cleanup and a closing paragraph before I posted it. ...
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Rob
- Jun 19, 2016
- 1 min
Hello world
I have been struggling with the problem of what to put into this first post. So much pressure. If I make a bad first impression, what...
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