[Note June 20 2024: I just noticed that the image links are broken; will need to recreate the charts, and that might take a bit.
Category: Musings
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I know commenting on yesterday’s death of Queen Elizabeth II is redundant, but like many other people in the Blogosphere and the Twitterverse, I’ll do
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Real left brain post today. I first published this post (in a slightly different version) about a year back on the risklantern.com blog. As the
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I wrote a short story this weekend. It was on a call-for-submissions to a fantasy mag, and it got me thinking about the SF&F genre.[1]
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I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of Renaissance Man.[1] Wouldn’t it be cool to be good at, well, everything? I was one of those