Monday, May 27, 2019

The Wheel of Time and the Well-Tempered Plot Device

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Sometime back in 2011, I was handed a complete (used!) set of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series from a friend who saw me reading A S...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019

JK Rowling and Sanderson's 3rd Law

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The Harry Potter books succeeded wildly, beyond anyone's imagination.  JK Rowling is the top-selling author of all time.  Not just in f...
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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Sagan's Anti-Dragon

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In my garage I have an imaginary dragon.  It's not real.  Its just imaginary.  It's a dragon made entirely of the good thoughts and ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Shaggydog Theory: Why George R. R. Martin Doesn't Want to Finish his Song of Ice and Fire Series

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Seven years ago, the last update to the legendary A Song of Ice and Fire series came available, the fifth book A Dance with Dragons .  This...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

How to Save Soccer and the World Cup

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I'm not really a soccer fan.  Really, I'm not much of a sports fan at all.  But I'm married to a Central American, so every now ...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Giving Clerics Their Due

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In the DCC RPG ruleset, many have noted that Wizards are given an extraordinary level of awesome, whereas Clerics sort of get shafted.  A h...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Roko's Basilisk and why people were afraid of it

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I'm really late on this one, but I wanted to explain Roko's Basilisk, for all the people who heard about it a while ago and never re...
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