My new motto (Personal)

Sometimes I think the only thing that stops me killing myself is the writer's block on the note.

Some of the Best Sci-Fi I Know... (Symlink)

...is written by a gentleman whom I know only via Everything2, as sam512. His current story is called Fine Structure, and I'm willing to venture the opinion that it would be incredibly hard to make it work in dead tree format. I'm not even sure if it will have the impact on others that it did on me, given that I (and others) watched it be written, piece by piece, over several years. Can watching Babylon 5 all at once, untroubled by having to wait a week or months between pieces, compare to the experience of having done so for five years and watching it end, well? Probably not.

But it's a hell of a piece of writing. Give it a try.

Differently able (Personal)

Being severely depressed can lead to achieving, um, different things in your life. I, for example, just finished Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City. Legacy of depression leading to much time spent on a couch.

Sigh.

Depressing &()## game, too.

Plagiarist, I see. (Rant)

I know the Internet is the 'brave new frontier.' I know there are those who think 'information should be free.' But things like this still really steam my bacon.

As most of the miniscule number of people who read this blog know, I write for the website 'Everything2.com' under a pseudonym, 'The Custodian.' I write a great deal of stuff there (over a million words in the past decade). Today, Googling for statistically improbable phrases to determine if anyone had linked to a work of mine, I found instead that someone who seems to be a student at Daytona State College has stolen the work in its entirety. The story is called 'The New York Magician', and some few parts of it (not all of it, and not all she stole and claimed as her own) are posted on this blog.

She has posted it to tumblr.com (I'm not going to link to it) claiming it as her own work, and has submitted it to NaNoWriMo.

I'm pretty pissed about this, I should say. Time to go learn about DMCA takedown notices.

Ten years! (Symlink)

That's how long Everything2.com has been operational. E2 is a place I spend too much time; it's my version of the 'social networking' that has swept the web, but it much predates all that stuff. It may have turned into a niche little tiny backwater of the web, but damn it, it's been up *ten years*. In Web 2.0 years, yet. That's like a gazillion dog years, man.