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I know the song “Bad to the Bone” predates Terminator 2, but clearly, the reason it came into existence in the universe was so that it could appear there.

I just broke 10k on the short story I’ve been writing that I think might be turning into the book about the Xeno-Native cult on Crossroads Station that I’ve wanted to write for like fifteen years but never knew how to approach.

I guess, it just took getting a surprise wedding invitation to inspire me.

My spouse just tried to do the point-and-scream thing from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it came out more like Chewbacca… so…

Invasion of the Wookie Snatchers!

Rewatching Home Alone for the first time in years because my younger kid knew about it from Roblox but hadn’t seen it…

And I’m really appreciating the acting skill necessary to pull off the role of the mother. That’s a tricky part, and Catherine O’Hara does a beautiful, nuanced job. Continue reading “Home Alone 1 & 2”

I will always love the song Feliz Navidad, because it will always sound like Big Bird ice skating to me.

This thought brought to you by the new Pentatonix holiday special and, of course, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street which is the best and most important Christmas special ever. Continue reading “Pentatonix, Sesame Street, Roblox, and Squid Game”

I’m not worried about AI replacing me as a writer, because the reason I write is that no one in the world was writing the books I wanted, namely Otters In Space. If I wanted to read them, I had to write them myself.

Even with an AI helping, I’d still have to provide that idea. Continue reading “The Possibilities with AI”

Taking inspiration from other works is literally not plagiarism, and while one can argue about the artistic value of AI art, I have yet to see a single case of an artist being able to point at a specific work that is actually plagiarism.

You can’t and shouldn’t be able to own a style. People copy each others’ styles all the time. Continue reading “Stable Diffusion is a Hammer”

Spouse: *expounds on how Warcraft these days encourages you to only play in areas that aren’t so hard that you die*

Me, who has recently leveled up a mage for the first time: “You only play druids. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

When I was a kid, I thought “The Game” was such a silly episode of Star Trek; as I got older, it started to seem more like a really prescient satire.

My feelings about my story, “Viewers Like You,” has gone through a similar evolution, just since last summer. Continue reading “Thoughts on “Viewers Like You””

Time to start rewatching Stargate Universe!

The last time I watched this, the only other Stargate I’d seen was the very original movie. So this should be fun. Already, I’m very much enjoying the SG-1 cameos, which I’d been totally unaware of before. Continue reading “Looping Through Stargate”