Writing, reviews, what-nots and sundry.

  • Game Quest
    PART I – Thunder without lightning Chapter 1 – that does not compute, Sea Hag! The hag stands cackling at the cave entrance, her green, arthritic hands clasped gleefully tight. “You’ll never find Princess Shareen now! Ha ha! The sorceress has just spirited her away to the palace. Even if you could find her, the tigress spell is irreversible! You’d have two-hundred pounds of fur for a princess!” With that the Sea Hag breaks into hideous cackling and chortling. USE SEA ROOT ON SEA HAG That does not compute. GIVE SEA ROOT…
  • On Capitalism and its Frankensteins
    I’ve been rather distressed over the past two decades, watching our society driving, with increasing speed, towards a brick wall.
  • Hard Of
    I think the phrase “hard of hearing” is rather fascinating. It doesn’t make any intuitive sense. While we can think of it in the sense of something having hardened and become less flexible, or in the sense of something having become hard to do, we don’t use this phrase in any other way.
  • The tall, dark wizard in the blue robe with white stars—who Evan would come to know as Falstaff—
    plucked the slurpee off Evan’s tray with long boney fingers. He peered deep into its sugary murk. “Explain this foul potion. What are its effects?” “It’s called a slurpee,” Evan said. “It’s a refreshing drink. Especially when it’s hot out.” A round of knowing ahhhhhs circled the room. “A health elixir,” someone spoke from the back, nodding with authority. “Well, sort of.” Falstaff sniffed it. “Drink it! Drink it! Drink it!” the wizards began to chant. Falstaff raised his hand. “Silence!” he commanded. “For the sake of knowledge, and in the name…
  • Above-Average post
    I’ve been somewhat obsessed with mental fallacies ever since I read The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis’s book on Amos Tversky and Danny Kahneman. (These led me to two other great books on the topic, including Kahneman’s Thinking Fast & Slow, and Leonard Mlodinow’s Drunkard’s Walk, which are two books I’d put on the list for anyone wanting to have a better understanding of the world and their own decisions.)Anyway, I saw a facebook reel the other day pointing out the hilarious stat that, when polled, the vast majority of people–something like 80%–believe…