Nov 17
Get your mind off of whatever it’s on at the moment and pay attention to the people responsible for your having a mind worth anything at all: teachers and librarians. Writing any fiction at all requires knowing something about the setting, local mores, police procedures, the distance from Oslo to Bergen, or whatever else the …
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Jul 07
My favorite anime girls are not a topic that I had planned for this blog. On the other hand, there is a valid argument that it is on topic because as a science-fiction writer I am obviously a geek, and as a geek there is a better than average chance that I watch anime. And …
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Jun 12
He who lives by the computer dies by the computer. I don’t know if anyone ever said that before, and if so, I’m not even sure that it’s true. But if it is, I know how I’ll die. I do have tools in the conventional sense: mechanics tools, power tools with cords that plug into …
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Jun 09
his is not a software blog. Given that the number of them already on the Internet (like StackOverflow and Developer.com) may best be expressed in powers of 10, it is unlikely that I need to add another one. However, if you have read Neuromancer, The Adolescence of P1, or even “The Nine Billion Names of …
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Jun 06
Even if you haven’t heard of greebling before, you know what it is. It’s that addition, in 3D modelling, of all kinds of silly and realistically unnecessary detail just to add interest. It has a history in Hollywood, albeit one much shorter than the history of Hollywood itself. As of today, it has become the …
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