Democracy is a good thing, but it doesn’t work well on IRC.
read moreUna anécdota curiosa
Una anécdota de cuando era niño sobre los videntes, y lo fácil que es pensar lo que no es.
read moreWherein the author conducts investigations in the countryside
The author returns to an isolated village in the mountains where his family came from to study the rural perspective and carry out agitation and propaganda amidst the peasants; either that, or consume a lot of food and drink while passing the time.
read moreFiction and disability from another angle
Some fictional works contain obvious references to disability, but sometimes it is more subtle. A shift of focus can make those works relate to disability much more strongly than it may at first appear.
read moreThe Golden Rod
The adventures of a gold fetishist.
read moreTouching and intimacy
Today’s society is dysfunctional about human relations and touch in particular. A mixture of trends including political and economic atomisation, the nuclear family, compulsory heterosexuality and perhaps technical development are removing touch from the common base of experience of adults and even some children. The results are not good.
read moreVilhjálmr’s Deed
A poem inspired by the folk song Willy’s Lady, written in my best approximation of the dróttkvœtt meter.
read moreMy latest project: IrcBook
IrcBook is my latest project: a prediction market IRC bot with play money.
read more9 knots
Outline of a story based on a Scottish folk song about a witch’s curse.
read moreA very unusual dream
I recently had a very weird dream combining time travel, rhetoric, logic, and mediaeval scholasticism.
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