A Good Friend
The clouds lie soft and somber o’er each sodden, stony face.The crowd, like ravens, perched around his final resting place.In some imagined future that has not yet come to beThey share their recollections of a man from life set free.”He sought me one dark evening in the depths of my despair, my hope long since…
Apples and Oranges
Comparison is the thief of joy Theodore Roosevelt maybe? The urge to compare has deep roots: psychological, social, and physical. It has been in our nature since nature began: can I eat this or will this eat me? Should I live here or there? Is this the same mushroom as last time? It is inescapable.…
The 2025 Book Awards
I don’t know if roaring is the word I would use for the last 6 years, but there has definitely been some screaming. AI is one step closer to becoming our global overlord; It can be difficult talking about frozen water in America without causing some confusion about immigration (and vice versa); Greenland and Canada…
The 2024 Book Awards
Shockingly, it’s already been a quarter century since the world ended with Y2K, and we’re halfway through the Roaring-ish 20s. It’s been an eventful year: my wife and I got a dog who is just great (after being just awful for the first couple weeks); I didn’t get fired from my big boy job (miraculously);…
The 2023 Book Awards
Another year has ended, and with it another bout of reading. I read fewer books this year than the last 2, for a total of 41, mostly due to the increased amount of gaming I did this year (A new Zelda game coming out will do that, as will getting a brand new laptop), and…
Trees like Apples
The trees that trace the footpath,a gala to attend,dance gaily in the autumn windwith limber boughs that bow and bend. The granny greens of summerto reds delicious fallwith oranges and yellows bright, the envy green of pine trees tall. As harvest days grow shorter,The air grows honeycrispAnd blows a breeze through ripened treeswith summer’s memory…
A Poem
Behold the sight: a golden lightis shining over yonder,while here I stand in darkened land;directionless, I wander. The golden light, though pure and brightillumines not my trailI seek it still, ’round rock and rillbut bound, I fear, to fail. For others yon, the light shines onand shows the pathway certain.Their way seems plain, a smooth…
The 2022 Book Awards
It seems that in the last 12 months another year has passed, and we find ourselves again at the end of this one. While I think it would be a mistake to say this year has been less eventful than previous years, I’m having a much harder time remembering all that has happened, especially compared…
They Can Afford It
Note: This is part three of a three-part series. The first and second parts can be found here and here, respectively. In the first two parts of this series, I focused almost entirely on the classic applications of affordances: how they affect our relationships with things. In this final installment, I’ll focus on perhaps the…
You Can Design It
In my last post I introduced the concept of affordances and their bearing upon creativity, explaining why affordances are a core ingredient in most creative endeavors. In this post, I’ll be taking it a step further and exploring the effects of affordances on the more concrete yet closely-related field of design. For designers, telling them…
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