Category: Uncategorized

Pick something you REALLY don’t want to go wrong. Make it go wrong.

Best if you would never be involved because of how bad it would be if it went wrong. Make it go more wrong.

As we wait for the final votes to be posted, I have some important points.

First of all, 132 was a fantastic cub, and I can’t believe he lost to Walker. What is this nonsense?

Second, my candidate, Chunk, fought the fat fight, and fought fat with honor. He’s the champion to me.

Third, both Walker and Otis are excellent competitors. I wish them the best. Otis has the better headshot.

Fourth, I wish they’d keep the voting open past 7pm MDT.

Five, in the semi-finals, both bears that won had names. Not counting this year, of the last 7 years, all but one winner had names. 747 won once, while Otis won 3 times, Beadnose twice, and Holly once. Having a name is a significant performance-enhancing advantage.

Next year, all bears should be named.

Also, Chunk should win.

The big difference between logical and emotional arguments is whether or not internal inconsistency implies invalidity.

In logic, an inconsistent argument is fallacious or invalid. In emotion, an inconsistent argument is perfectly normal. There’s no causal relationship between (in)consistency and (in)validity.

I wonder how particular horseback riding is. Is there a lot of prep? Is it basically another job? I bet it is.

I left the best engineering job I’ve ever had, or am liable to get, because I don’t like engineering that much. Maybe I need to go hard in the writing and creative stuff, and keep everything else in perspective.

Realistically, the answer is probably moderation.

But that’s no fun. Engineering pays the bills. Writing fuels the soul. I do quite enjoy sleeping indoors.

Someone said to me, ‘My friend is a good person, so she deserves to win the lottery.’

Okay?

I don’t see what the argument is here. That’s not how lotteries work. Winning or not winning the lottery isn’t related in any causal relationship to moral worth, other than perhaps inversely through fraud. Those two points just don’t reflect each other.

The Christian Bible has a good bit on this. ‘Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar’s; give to the Lord what is the Lord’s.’ Generalized, things can be different. One thing might not affect another. Moral goodness, the Lord’s affair, has little to do with money, Ceasar’s.

I think I’ll make the Mara ebook free again the first week of November and once again in December.

That will probably be the last of it. I need to focus on work.

What most of you probably want to hear about is what I’m writing.

But what I’m writing has to stay covered. As soon as I let it out, it hardens.

Not to be vague, when I poke and poke at an idea, spinning something out, writing a scene, drawing a thread, etc., it stays ‘soft’ in my head. Oh, Random might do this. Hector should say that. Elegy sticks her nose around here. But they might not, and there’s no mental cost to expanding, exploring, or smushing.

But the second I tell someone any of that, the story ideas ‘harden.’ Now someone else knows I was thinking Random should do this or Mara that. Since most of my ideas are just play for me, they don’t go anywhere, and they don’t harden into things. If they do, they get moved about a little, which is more difficult if the idea already has some form. I like my little forms. I don’t like manipulating them excessively.

So, like dough in the fridge, I keep my plot nibbits and threads in a box in my machine, where they bubble, blorp, and may do something. I actually tried doing it the other way, but that didn’t work. All writing crashed to a halt.

“Party Rock,” cried Sauron. “Party rocking in the house, tonight.”