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The February 2023 Review
For a short month, February was unexpectedly busy. Work Work picked up. A friend and occasional client asked if I could write down a story for him. He had an idea but didn’t know how to flesh it out. I stopped by his new studio, listened to his pitch and was able to elaborate on…
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Creating a firework bunker for the dog
Ah, festive seasons in Malaysia. Any excuse to shoot fireworks into the sky because other people are richer than me. But what really pisses me off is that it terrorises my dog, causing her to refuse walks and toilet time, which is not ideal because she refuses to go on our property. She would only…
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The January 2023 Review
My January was a contrast between fairly social and somewhat reclusive. Work It was quiet on the work front. If the week between Christmas and New Year is a “lost” week, meet the weeks between New Year and a Chinese New Year celebration that fell in January. Much of 2022 was pre-production for a TV…
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The Storium Review 2023
Every year, I like to do a review of what my current Storium games are. If you don’t know what Storium is because you’re not on any of my social media where I talk incessantly about it: Storium is a play-by-post collaborative writing platform that includes game mechanics to support the direction of the story…
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Two months of Mastodon
Like many newcomers, I became aware of Mastodon because Twitter went from bad to worse (turns out that was possible). I never quite took to Twitter, and I don’t really have to elaborate.
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Hello 2023
“Hi.“ I hate it when people text me that word and stop there. I’d look at it, and go back to what I was doing while waiting for them to state their business. If they do not, their “hi” get buried below the scores of other messages I get in a day. I forget their…
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[Review] Rookfield – Gordon B White
Stars: 4/5tl;dr: Anti-masker chases down wife and kid. Finds more than he bargained for. Cabot Howard is not a nice man. I go into most stories expecting to root for the protagonist, but this hits a little too close to what’s happening in the world right now – a pandemic caused by airborne viruses, a…
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Link: 5 Things you need before starting a podcast
If you follow nothing but this blog, it may come as a surprise that I’ve entered the world of podcasting after winning a battle against the fear of public speaking. I’ll be writing more on that and updating my bio soon. Meanwhile, here’s a blog post on podcasting that 3Degrees Media invited me to write:…
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Why I’d think twice about personalising my belongings in the future
This is a satchel bag I used for work when I still worked a full-time job. It has been hanging on the coat rack for over two years because I’ve gotten a new (free) computer backpack since. There’s no place I’d go as a freelancer that requires me to use a formal bag anymore, especially…
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A Gallery of Car Plates Lost in a Flash Flood
This week, I learned that newer cars have their car plates stuck on with double tape. This is an utter ripoff, if you want my opinion, because this happens to your car plates: