bloganuary
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Look upon the polished face of the internet and ask yourself: are you having any fun? When you look something up, can you find any decent answer without tacking “+Reddit” onto the end of your query? When was the last time you watched a video uninterrupted by ad breaks? Blame Web 2.0. While Web 2.0…
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I am eclectic by nature. My habit of picking things up off the ground, of taking any plant clipping offered to me, leads to a house full of curios. However, not all of those collected objects stay very long. Twice a year, I get an itch that says its too much. This urge to delete…
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|∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| ∩＿＿＿∩ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| | ノ ヽ /⌒ ) |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| /⌒) ● ● | .| |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| / / ( ● )ミ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|.（ ヽ |∪| ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| ＼ ヽノ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|_ / / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴∵∴∴ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴∵∴∴ ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴ ∵∴∴ ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|￣￣￣ I’ve been on the internet for a long time, a member of that weird in-between generation that grew up just as the old internet started to die, when forums and niche internet communities were replaced by the inexorable creeping illness…
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Starting around the age of 5, I became obsessed with dragons (and dinosaurs, of course, but these were just two parts of the same puzzle as far as I was concerned at that age). My mother, ever the supportive parent, took this enthusiasm and ran with it. Along with books like Dragonology, she also began…
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I find the pursuit of immortality overrated, given those who seek it often do so at the cost of quality of life, of their own humanity, of the community around them. To choose immortality (or functional immortality ie. you live a long long long time and only die if something kills you) is to choose…
from the pen of icarus blake 