Posts tagged blogging

Look! The monkey is forming sentences!

Life is what I make of it. I just wish there was not this incessant need to get a job that I have to fuel in order to even live life. I must admit, though, it was incredibly rewarding to work for a living, because it felt like I was contributing something to the world… but only contributing a poorly-written blog post every couple of days I guess will have to do for now.

We Follow You… Mostly Out Of Curiosity Though

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.

Did Social Networking Kill The Writing Star?

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

(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?”

And then we dive in to the human condition…

You know, I had this great post lined up to speak about today. I was going to talk about humanity’s stagnation over the past ten years, and how we as a culture (the “Western World”) are headed into the vast abyss of thoughtlessness and uncreative culture. I had something so clearly written in my head… [...]