Morals
Nov 17th
As I was traveling on the train the other day, I saw someone reading a book about morals. The title of the book escapes me at the moment, but I clearly remember the sub-title of the book: “How to live a moral life in an immoral world”. I can not find the book by a Google search by this string, unfortunately, but that is not the important bit. What is important is this: while I do appreciate a good read every once in a while, this one just seemed to get me chuckling inside, the more I think about it.
We Follow You… Mostly Out Of Curiosity Though
Nov 7th
One of the things I have learned in my few years out there is that in order to be a leader, you have to do some things differently than what you used to do. It works a lot like customer service, really: no one wants to know what the sales associate’s attitude is towards certain people, or else they do not make the sale. Sales associate does not sell something, they get let go. The funny thing is that the same principle is true of leaders, whether it is business leaders, politicians, or something small, like leadership of a gaming guild or a gaming community.
Pants That Make Me Cringe
Oct 27th
If I was a conspiracy nut, I would say that a group of hardcore feminists are in control of the fashion world and trying to strike back at males for centuries of oppression, and it was a subtle way of striking fear into those that are male, and proud to be male. I am not, so I’ll just say it is disturbing.
Of Marriage… Part 2: The Books And The People
Oct 9th
After some humbling I got from certain people whom I hold in high esteem, I decided to take some of my own advice and investigate for myself into the parts where marriage in between two people of the same sex is talked about in the Bible, in either the Old Testament or the New Testament. I read Genesis and Exodus completely, and used Wikipedia as a guide to skip to the parts where the rest of this topic were brought up. This is my results.
Stargate: Universe
Oct 8th
…what? Just because I do not have cable means I can not step in and say what I thought about a TV show’s series premiere?
Did Social Networking Kill The Writing Star?
Sep 30th
Years ago, I used to be able to write a five page short story without batting an eyelash. I used to have Word documents on my computer full of stories that were novels, poems, short stories, creations, drafts… I have also written a few blogs before – this is in fact my fourth attempt at keeping a regular blog: two on Internet forums, one on a separate blogging system that shut down. But try as I might, now that Twitter has got me seeing people like Brent Spiner writing stories through his Twitter page, or Ryan Sohmer’s epic-ness using his words on Twitter… it is becoming harder and harder now.
Of Marriage, Love, Orientation, and The Pope
Sep 24th
(This may be a little ramble-worthy, and I’m sorry for making it that way, but I had a lot of ground to cover for one post.)
“An expression of two people (leaving out polygamists, sorry) to the commitment of lifelong love and partnership is getting married, and who am I to stand in the way of two people expressing that? I ask myself that in this subject, and I cannot really say that I am justified in any way to stand in the way of this, unless I believe that the couple, on a case-by-case basis, does not love each other. Yes, I take that part of wedding ceremonies seriously; you do not?”
The Interview
Sep 10th
Another fiction story. This was based off something that happened to me, and it still freaks me out to this day that it happened this way. I don’t want to spoil it for you, so I won’t go into details. Read and find out.
Afghanistan: Why We Are Needed There
Aug 29th
I’ve seen a few articles around the Internet, and people going off and saying that people should pull out of Afghanistan, and I feel the need to comment on this. Why? Well, you’re on my site, right? I believe what is said here needs to be said, and needs to be said now, before someone does something stupid.
What’s in a name?
Aug 20th
Since I spend so much time online, I tend to see a lot of different names that people choose to represent themselves (unless you’re looking at 4chan’s boards, where everyone’s Anonymous), and I can see a lot of different things about people. The same is true in the gaming world, really. There’s a lot that will just use their own given name – really says that they are a casual Internet user, maybe even a first-time user. Nothing wrong with that at all, I like people who are like that. Then you have people that seemingly have random text strings as user names, but 99% of the time it makes sense to the user as sort of an inside joke with themselves or their friends. You also have nicknames that they are given in real life, by others around them. Some people use ones that refer to their birth year, or a celebrity. And then there are others that relay hobbies of the person behind them. Some even create whole new personae – they are named Bob, but they go by John online. Then there’s those that just come randomly, and that is where mine comes from.
