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Resuming hypermedia study Digital hypertext publishing is an exciting subdomain of creative technology that I have had the privilege of exploring academically at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
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library day
Libraries are the most innocent of institutions, and the libraries of Central New York have been anchors of my experiences through time.
Today I was incidentally talking to two men on the street in Oneida Square. They are older than me, perhaps representing the two generations preceding my own. The …
password protected
I can't manage my passwords because of the inscrutable infinity of the digital realm, but I've realized that necessity is the key.
this compromise
A wistful report of a strategist who has little tactical competence.
Postscripts
Talented elf-lords always buy the brightest banners...
true simplicity
Simplicity is hard for me. I never really understood it. In my youth, I experienced cognitive dissonance when acknowledging the value and virtue of simplicity, because part of me kept insisting that it can't be morally wrong to look too deeply. To my younger self, this resistance seemed validated by …
IFComp: Grandma Bethlinda’s Variety Box
Playfulness is one quality of traditional IF that is often difficult to critique or evaluate. Big-headed reviewers often find little use for it, since it is concerned neither with Making a Difference, nor with High Art, nor with abstract Capital Letter Ideals (CLI, because parser). Although many types of digital …
True Tales
Faith in one meaningful life can elevate everyday mundane ones.
Lament of the Lost Moon
The poetry anthology Under Every Moon by G.L. Francis uses the pigments of world folklore and nautical tradition to color a subtle vision of reality, full of spiritual depth and of the fantastic. The poems largely forsake traditional meter and familiar rhyme schemes, and the themes and references can …
The Old Tree
Bid the Gods Arise by Robert Mullin takes the basic materials of ancient Judeo-Christian legend and gives them life and coherence in a mythic universe. In doing so, it avoids falling into the Evangelical stereotypes of the same source material, and it is definitely not “biblical fiction.” The myth-creation leaves …