Month: October 2021
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Sentient Omnivores
Originally written in 2003 Human beings are sentient omnivores. This gives us certain rights and obligations with regard to other creatures. We eat just about anything. Our bodies are designed to have a certain balance of these things. Certain cultures have ‘evolved’ to have more tolerance for a diet weighted more towards meat and probably…
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Stop Signs
The thing is… You don’t really need to stop for a full three seconds… but you have got to stop. It takes no more than a second to verify that nobody is coming and it’s safe to proceed, and that’s if you weren’t looking around as you approached the sign, or you couldn’t see oncoming…
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General Writing Update (10/21/2021)
It takes only the briefest of scrolling to see that I haven’t made much use of this blog over the last……. six years. But my writing career – and I use that term very loosely – has chugged along without it. The fourth Daganu book, The Long Dark, is out via Smashwords, but is not…
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The Speed Limit
My mom always liked to say the speed limit is a limit not a goal. I disagree. Or, I should say, it’s more nuanced than that. By a lot. A lot a lot. But the basics don’t take long, so let’s dive in. The thing about speed limits is that they are supposed to reflect…
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Fast Lane: Slower Traffic Keep Right
I used to have a driving blog called Fast Lane, but I had a database disaster and lost it all. It is being reborn here as a page within my writing blog. I originally got my immediate inspiration from the 140 mile trip (counting both directions) I did twice a month between Sacramento and the…