I’m sharing something important: Kindness is normal. Where current events lead us to believe that apathy and cynicism are expected, average behavior – it’s more important than ever to remember that being mean isn’t normal. Kindness is normal. Even if the world makes being kind feel weird, it doesn’t matter. Kindness matters. Kindness is normal….
Hold all the ‘V’Ger’ jokes to the end – this is retrofuturism now – fixing Voyager from fifteen billion miles away. Check out this ~1 hr breakdown on the technical challenges of fixing a 50 year old computer – any command takes 22.3 hours to send and another 22.3 hours to receive. Gives new meaning…
Well that’s that – NANOWRIMO is no mo’ – an elegy for writing challenges everywhere. The nascent National Novel Writing Month ‘was an annual, international creative writing event in which participants attempted to write a 50,000-word manuscript during the month of November. Well-known authors wrote “pep talks” in order to motivate participants during the month….
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Time for some mid-month madness with TRON screams. I was re-watching the original TRON and ran across this hysterical screen grab – a new meme format was born: Jeff Bridges can scream at me any day. He had this to say about the new Tron: Ares – “When we did the original, we shot…
I’ve been seeing a lot of ‘Amazon’s harsh wakeup calls’ articles in the news lately – maybe you have, too. ‘Hard-nosed messages’ for employees, ‘harsh news’ for shoppers. Is ‘harsh [emotional reaction]’ the new ‘you’ll never believe what happened, next’ for journalism? Who knows, or cares? The main thing I want to do: point out…
New Logo and Wallpaper for Sunday night – please enjoy this new wallpaper composite I’ve been working on. It’s a close-up of a dark cassettefuturism-style illuminated starship control panel – something I’ve been thinking about. I dig the cassettepunk style of old scifi films and wanted to honor that with my new logo. Hope you…
Enjoy some old-school cypherpunk for this Sci-Friday – the Cypherpunk Archives are an interesting snapshot of life on the Internet from 1992-1998. More than that, the Cypherpunk Archives fill in a lot of institutional knowledge on ‘why the Internet is the way that it is.’ But wait – you say – what’s cypherpunk, anyway? Per Wikipedia,…
Today I discovered a trove of ‘writing men’ advice for female authors. This is a nice ‘flip side’ of the story I started a couple of years ago when I pivoted Mike Sierra Echo away from my original idea ‘Cinderellavator.’ Inclusivity is a great idea for everyone – that’s why I was glad to find…
Whoa – scary news this week – let’s use this moment personally: Be Rich, Live Poor. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next thirty to ninety days, but I do know something about surviving tough times. There’s a brilliant Aussie phrase: Doing it tough. They’ve been using it for over a hundred…
Spotted this cool video discussing space elevator stuff – passing it along for Sci-Friday. Watch a down-to-earth breakdown of the out-of-this-world space transit system! I love the fact that he validates the premise of Mike.Sierra.Echo without even realizing it. “All of these ideas assume that we have a method of getting the material required into orbit …
