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An Overview of the State of Ergonomic Keyboards
I never gave much thought to my keyboard in my early 20s. It just came with the computer I purchased. If one died, I would go out and buy a $20 keyboard at the store, more often than not, I just had a couple lying around. I gave no thought to how it was made,…
Introducing Glyph: a keyboard only editing system
So here’s a project that I’ve been working on for the last 10 years that I’m going to just put out there for others to see what they think, or maybe use. I find editing large amounts of text in a modern OS to be painful to my wrists. Using a mouse to select text,…
Caribbean Futurism and Beyond Conversations with Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science, and Speculative Fiction
During the pandemic I got an email from Jarrel De Matas inviting me to do an interview about Caribbean futurism and the books and stories I’d written. Jarrel has collected a series of interviews and fleshed them out with context and notes, and created a new entry in the Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction series…
Creating a custom Obsidian writing environment: a video guide
In the last post I showed how I use Obsidian, a lot of people asked what plugins and themes I used, so I went ahead and created a video that walks you through how to get started with one theme and two plugins to replicate 90% of what I do. The CSS code to style…
How I used Obsidian to custom roll my own writing environment/app
Several years ago I became entranced by the idea of a Zetelkasten, a method for linking notes together to create a sort of second brain. I’ve given presentations on how I used an app called Obsidian to create a group of ideas, research, and snippets that allowed me to continue writing stories in the middle…
Semester Done!
In the time since I last posted regularly here and when the blog rebooted I’ve shifted my career stack by becoming a full time professor. This was a challenging year. Our university experienced some budget issues, decided to merge with a larger university which was presented as our way through these challenges, we spent a…
Check out “And the Cat Came Back” by Alan Marks
I mention that I teach graduage school at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Writing program occasionally. I started in 2019, just before the pandemic. Since I have been off social media a lot, and this blog was down for a long time, I’ve not been bigging up my students when they accomplish…
It’s just a giant death ray, right?
This article about the state of beaming power down from orbit using microwave or laser always leaves me going “and what will other countries think about having a giant heat ray you can point at anywhere on earth think about this?” The amount of treaty-making will make a world-wide carbon cap an easier project. Someone…
The Murderbot Apple Trailer just dropped: it’s dope!
What I love about this most is the voice over. 99 times out of 100 it’s a mistake, but Skarsgard hits the disinterested, a little passive-aggressive, tone of Murderbot so well. The trailer feels like the book feels in my head, vibe-wise, so I’m looking forward to this as I love the books.