Safety Valve: Gassing Away

think. talk. express. eat brain. think some more. experiment. test. try. try again. fail. think. do. succeed. talk. wonder. read. write. take a break. we have all the time in the world

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Everything matters.

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Sometimes you look back and imagine you had a time machine. You'd get in, armed with all you know today (and possibly a judiciously sele...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

My own private Narnia

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So, do you believe in magic? There are places that exist. Maybe they were real once, maybe they only live in the memories I have of them,...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Things are never just things

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Clearing out a storage space is hard. If you've been used to moving around, you already have a filter that ruthlessly throws away anyt...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

A reek of opulence

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"Come, let's take a look," he says, striding up the corridor. I'm in one of the premiere, large-scale properties in the h...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Secret

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Secrets are... light. Not emotionally, psychologically, but physically they have no weight at all, no matter how big they get. That's w...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

A zero sum game?

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There are 24 hours a day. There are 3000 calories a day. Within large or small variations, this is largely true of everyone. Not. If...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Horse Latitudes

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Adrift.  No sense of what comes next. Goals are an abstraction, an intellectual exercise to give just enough meaning to some tasks to sta...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Perceived Realities

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As I gradually come awake, I'm aware of the last fading remnant of my dream sliding away into oblivion; the tail end quickly glimpsed as...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Once again, The Move.

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I've been moving for most of my life. My parents moved when I was a kid, then I moved to study, then work, then moved again as leases r...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

Doing the right thing

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Listened to a fantastic PoV the other day - there's so much information in the world, it can't be processed, it must be filtered. A...
Saturday, February 04, 2017

cracks

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older now, i can see cracks in reality the hidden spaces around corners under your feet, behind your head squirming around your blindsp...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Never signed up for this

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she's in that dreamstate between awake and asleep, twitching, once in a while reaching out to make sure you're there you watch tha...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

To boldly go where everyone has gone before...

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Let's be real, galactic colonization is not going to happen anytime soon.  There's no hyperdrive/warp. The physics we have toda...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

On Bollywood

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My relationship with Bollywood's been fairly interesting, I think.  When I was growing up, Bollywood consisted of this blur of ima...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

unfinished stories

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we don't know where they go, or where they come from. they just are. today. now. that's their perfection, with no excuses and no ap...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

on demons.

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Just a quick brief little note demons are terrible adversaries to have. you know, they're really quite small? tiny enough that you won...
Sunday, March 01, 2015

broken

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we all have things to do, places to go.  people to be.  and then there's some of the others, the ones who show up now and then. the ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

That one perfect word

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It's a warm, starry, moonless night. Let's go out, you and I. Walk out into the dark, lie down in the soft grass, and look up.  ...
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Monday, December 08, 2014

Waiting for the Singularity

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Nearly there.  It's been a long ride. We nearly didn't make it so many times. We still might not get there, but we can see the r...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Touched by a Dark Angel

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I see Her sometimes out of the corner of my eye, a flitting dark shadow far away, right there in front of me, going about her work, and I a...
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