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[ Jul 2 2019 ]

My Old Day Job: Final Update

Several years after I quite the insanity job, I helped close it down. It ended in perfect company style: with disorganization, disinterest and chaos.





Personal
[ Mar 17 2019 ]

Face Blindness

A friend of mine discovered, as an adult, that she’s been face blind her whole life. It was a remarkable and powerful discovery.





Personal
[ Apr 5 2018 ]

Importing Illegal Firearms

A friend sent me a toy pistol, and Australian customs was unimpressed. This spring-loaded toy was, apparently, a legitimate firearm and fuck no I couldn’t have it.





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[ Feb 25 2018 ]

My Old Day Job – Part Four

This is part four of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. It’s a terrible story of a company gone very, very wrong.





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[ Feb 25 2018 ]

My Old Day Job – Part Three

This is part three of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. It’s a terrible story of a company gone very, very wrong.





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[ Feb 25 2018 ]

My Old Day Job – Part Two

This is part two of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. It’s a terrible story of a company gone very, very wrong.





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[ Feb 23 2018 ]

My Old Day Job – Part One

A long time ago I worked in an offfice, and I started keeping a log near the end of my time there because, frankly, it was batshit insane and getting batshit insanier by the week. This is that story.





Games
[ Feb 11 2016 ]

Thinking about Video Games

I’ve never really been comfortable with modern game thinking. A lot of people I know subscribe to this idea that videogames can be more than they are, that they should be more. More emotion, more story. They see this as the way forward, a way to… I don’t know, legitimize the medium they’re invested in. […]





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[ Dec 24 2014 ]

I demand to know.

“From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge: ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable, and I will not take refuge. I demand to know.”

–Richard Morgan, from the novel Black Man.





Personal
[ Apr 18 2013 ]

Australia, lol

Australia bickers over the internet. 25 megabits, or 100 megabits? Meanwhile Japan is rolling out 2 gigabit – 20x faster than Australia’s biggest dream.





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