In the past year, I’ve made:
- An emergency anki deck, since I think high-urgency high-impact emergencies are an ideal use case for spaced repetition.
- A compilation of short posts about my baby, 30 days into parenthood.
- West Coast Swing random move caller, a web tool that lets beginner leads decouple the dance skills of choosing the next move on the fly and executing the move. Moves and transitions are customizable.
Highlights over more time:
- A trick I’m surprised worked so well: managing marijuana addiction with a spreadsheet.
- Media reviews, ranging from serious ones on economic models of civilizational collapse to tongue in cheek ones claiming that the TV show Severance is metaphysically about open individualism.
- Various paintings:
- My fiction tends to be about non-human entities like uplifted animals or aliens: here’s a mathusian fable starring a sapient mitotic species, with a smidgen of lateral gene transfer related sexual drama.
- I like thinking of and running social events sometimes, such as conflict improv, where attendees play out preset conflicts with preset strategies.
- I’ve also compiled a list of nosy personal questions for various intrusive question social games I run at festivals.
Misc
- My backstory.
- In theory, you can follow this website via rss.
- I live in Berkeley, CA. I’m skittish and busy, but every once in a while I meet someone I click with so well I want to talk every week. Usually this is a woman with centrist or all-over-the-map politics who writes a lot of something and likes social analysis. If you live near me and suspect this might be you, you can email me at [email protected] with your writing profile – whether that’s a fanfiction account, a book review livejournal, a twitter, or a regular blog.