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Would It be Better if it Were Nature’s Fault?

March 12, 2010

“Some will see this as the apoc­a­lypse while oth­ers see this as nat­ural evo­lu­tion.” — Joe Las­zlo
If all civ­i­liza­tion ended, all of our man-made cre­ations were to crum­ble and finally the planet itself explodes into just rock and gas float­ing around in space…
Would you feel bet­ter if the world/ the planet itself came to […]

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Cityscape, Skyline Metropolis?

March 7, 2010

The suf­fix of one word can lead to so many other inter­est­ing words. In look­ing into the theme for Doo­dle Week on U3 this Fri­day I knew I wanted to draw some kind of city sky­line, a cityscape. That led to look­ing up other kinds of words with ‘scape’ as a suf­fix. That led me […]

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What’s Your Vote on How World Ends?

March 5, 2010

From a poll on Face­book:
How do you think the world will end?
Floods — 12%
Earth­quakes — 24%
Pol­i­tics — 64%
84,250 peo­ple voted.
Isn’t that inter­est­ing? How many other options could you add to the list: Tor­na­dos, Aliens, Envi­ron­men­tal Dis­as­ter…? Would peo­ple still pick Pol­i­tics first? I did and would prob­a­bly keep to that.
How many other ways can you think of that the world (the […]

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Dystopia

February 17, 2010

From the Free Dic­tio­nary — Dystopia: an imag­i­nary place where every­thing is as bad as it can be.
Dystopia is the oppo­site of a utopia. It’s a pretty great word if you’re a sci­ence fic­tion fan, like myself. I hadn’t heard of it before. Or, at least I didn’t remem­ber it. My nephew started play­ing a new […]

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The Creature with Six Arms

November 28, 2009

Now and then in the media they depict aliens from other plan­ets as crea­tures with mul­ti­ple arms. I’ve seen draw­ings and real peo­ple on film wear­ing cos­tumes to look like they have six arms, like a grasshop­per or some other insect.
I was think­ing this morn­ing that you could do a lot with extra arms. Play […]

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Omnicide

June 23, 2009

You might think I’m a doom and gloom sort if you knew how inter­est­ing I find the end of civ­i­liza­tion. But it’s actu­ally the rebuild­ing and the sur­vival that really inter­est me. In part the cause and results of how things ended too, like read­ing a really good mys­tery where you have to pull the […]

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Inland Seagulls

June 22, 2009

Seag­ulls will come inland when there is a storm com­ing. As we live near a bay and another small body of water on the other side of us we tend to hear the seag­ulls before and after storms. Even though they are not so well thought of and have become a nui­sance in places where […]

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Misplaced in the Past from the Future

May 9, 2009

Every new gen­er­a­tion in each new cen­tury thinks they have it much bet­ter than their ances­tors in the past. We have the mod­ern con­ve­niences. We have med­i­cine, indoor plumb­ing, oppos­able thumbs… When we look back we see our­selves as bet­ter off. Isn’t it funny that each gen­er­a­tion thinks the same and yet each gen­er­a­tion takes […]

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