-
Continue reading →: Happy Equinox, Everyone!I’ve always felt like I had a closer connection to the actual turning of the seasons than what is, realistically, an arbitrary calendar whatever the historical reasons for its adoption and modification over centuries and millennia might be. It makes more sense to me to organize the year around actual…
-
Continue reading →: Journalling AgainAs a supplement to the Memory Project, I’ve been gathering all my old journal and blog entries together. Along the way, I’ve made an interesting discovery: the more I blogged, the less I journaled. Before I started blogging here and there (in 2004, wow), I’d been keeping a daily journal…
-
Continue reading →: Freedom of Information DayI’m not normally one for being interested in American days of apparent importance. I’m aware they have lots of them, and that’s fine, but most of them have nothing to do with where or how I live, so they can pass by unmarked. Far too many of them, really, are…
-
Continue reading →: SFS: Starcrash (1978)“Well, it took an hour to write. I thought it would take an hour to read.” – Fry, Futurama S01E12 Or in this case an hour and a half. Considering the care lavished on the spaceship models, which are frankly so much 70s fun, it would have been nice if…
-
Continue reading →: 13th Anniversary of ALMA Coming Fully OnlineALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is located on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It’s made up of 66 high-precision antennas which operate on wavelengths of 0.32 to 3.6 mm (hence the Millimeter/submillimeter designation. It’s a serious marvel of scientific engineering, essentially running 24-hours a day,…
-
Continue reading →: Storytelling Devices That Bug Me, Part 2Way back at the end of May 2024, I wrote a post with the title “Storytelling Devices That Bug Me, Part 1”. I clearly thought I might eventually have more to say on the subject, particularly since the six things I referenced in that post were all essentially temporal. If…
-
Continue reading →: Happy International Women’s Day!
Lance, you are not a woman. What are you possibly thinking writing a blog post about International Women’s Day on International Women’s Day? Bear with me for a moment. A few paragraphs, really. Three or four hundred words, tops. Okay, it’s not really a post about International Women’s Day, but…
-
Continue reading →: SFS RevistedSomehow, I got away from the idea of Science Fiction Saturday. I’ve suggested more than once over my blogging years that I mostly can’t binge watch things like a lot of people seem to, unless it’s in extremely short bursts. I can do a six-episode season or series fairly quickly…
-
Continue reading →: Writing Things Accomplished in February 2026
The overall word count for February was substantially lower than January. Near the end of January, I switched the way I was approaching things to work on one major fiction project at a time and rotate through drafts (see this post). And as part of the longer-term adjustment process, I’ve…
-
Continue reading →: The Agrippan TrilemmaAgrippa the Skeptic was a Greek philosopher who lived somewhere around the late 1st century CE. Attributed to Agrippa by the biographer Diogenes who lived a couple of hundred years later is the idea of the Agrippan Trilemma. (It’s apparently also known as the Münchhausen Trilemma, coined in the 1960s…
Hello,
I’m Lance
Welcome to Life, Writing, and Weirdness, a a small creative space where I share my thoughts and progress on well, life, writing, and weirdness. Yup, yet another independent author website, but this one’s mine so will have a world according to Lance flavour. Be welcome and be well.
Connect:
Join the fun!
Subscribe to my blog and stay up to date on what I’m working on and scattered parts of the rest of my life.
Life, Writing, Weirdness 