Month: May 2020

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Thoughts and prayers

So there’s widespread mockery of posting thoughts and prayers on social media. There’s reason behind that.

But what do you do when internaitonal politics or natural disasters hurt millions? I don’t have the United States of Matt to deploy pressure. I can’t get Cory Gardner or Diana DeGette to respond to email. A little sympathy for the people who post thoughts and prayers would be nice, because earthquakes don’t care and there’s not a lot we can do about them.

No answers, so let me end on a positive note. The weather is nice, and the Denver foodbank is doing good work. I don’t think goodness is wasted ever.

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Mara and the Trolls

The paperback version of Mara and the Trolls is now available on Amazon. Not for preorder or other, the book itself is available. I found a typo in the way their parser converted the blurb to html, but the correction for that is already submitted.

I’m exhausted. I am bone deep weary beyond anything else, and it’s hard to be excited given how tired I am. But it’s done. The job is accomplished. I did it.

I don’t know what to say. God, I’m tired.

Thank you, everyone. I’m working on the next Elegy book, and I hope to get that out in less than a year. Self publishing is hard, though, and I’m not sure if I can make it work.

Good luck to you all. Toil is a part of accomplishing your goals.

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Art

With DA going to their Eclipse theme, I’m looking for new art forums and sites.

Artstation isn’t bad, but it requires logins and means I can’t browse without enabling a bunch of plugins and addons. I don’t like that for privacy reasons.

Tumblr is pretty dead.

DA was wonderful for being the wild west, and if 90% of it wasn’t too good, it was open, creative, and filled with strange people. I’m hoping they revert away from Eclipse before going the way of Snapchat.

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Status

Mara and the Trolls still hasn’t appeared on Amazon. It’s been radio silence for a few days after an initial reply.

Nothing to report. Perspective remains critical. I wish I had some antacids.

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Names

Geology generally has the best names, followed by Biology, Astronomy, Chemistry, Mathematics, dead silence, and Physics, in that order.

Geology has a phenomenom called a pyroclast.

Physics has Big G. It’s a capital G, whereas Little G, g, isn’t.

None of that is made up.

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Status

The joke on Monday was this has been a hard week.

It’s Saturday night now.

Life is good, really. Perspective is hard to maintain, but if I’m being serious, life is good.

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SEO spambots

They’re fascinating. They leave a distinct URL ‘from’ address in the logs that if clicked on, redirect to a malware loaded spam page. It’s pretty clever. If I didn’t pay attention the logs, I wouldn’t notice the spam, but people who pay attention to logs are probably the most likely targets for SEO spam.

Good scam.