Local and ethnically sourced pho to nourish the Revolution — Hail, comrades! Welcome to AntiPho™ where the white supremacist, hetero-normative and fascist liberal world view gives way to ethnically sourced, farm to table pho for the nourishment and advancement of the proletarian revolution! We know true, historical change only occurs as the result of direct action and here at AntiPho™…

One genetic memory at a time — Howdy folks! What you’ve got here in your grubby hands is an article (free on Substack) very, very seriously exploring the consequences of genetic memory and other things I obviously don’t understand. I like games. I think life is a game. Look at what I’m wearing. I pretty much just…

The Best Pot Shop in the Universe — Marijuana (pronounced Mary Juan Uhh or Mary Hwan Uhh if you’re from the south) is a pretty old thing. The Devil has been tending a diversity of lettuce for around 28 million years, producing several species. …

Also known, more magnificently, as The Dog — I’ve been doing some thinking lately. About cats, mostly. But any thought on catkind conjures thoughts of dogkind, too. A ponder of a thing should include its antithesis — its enemy, its opposite — and as such I’ve given the canine species a jolly pondering indeed. I have a few…

Tips and tricks for the socially conscious, modern man — We live in half a house. It’s a sort of duplex with the rent of a full house, considering it’s in Seattle. The layout is strange and tiny, so at night the light from the bathroom can spill into the bedroom before I can frantically slam the door as quickly…

I go where the game development is I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 1 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 2 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 3 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 4 Thus far in my journey, I’d been what is known as a contingent staffer. I worked alongside full-time Microsoft…

I go where the game development is I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 1 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 2 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 3 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 5 During my corporately mandated 100-day exile to the wilderness, I determined to move even closer to the source and…

I go where the game development is I, Migrant IT Worker Part 1 I, Migrant IT Worker Part 2 I, Migrant IT Worker Part 4 I, Migrant IT Worker Part 5 So far along my Fool’s Journey through games development I’d held three different gigs, all at the same company…

I go where the games development is — I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 1 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 3 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 4 I, Migrant IT Worker, Part 5 By the end of 2001, I’d managed to be fired twice from throwaway gigs and hired for a soulless but steady gig in games hardware testing…