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Weekly NerdArt Picks | 2-22-17

It's time for the Weekly NerdArt Picks! A busy week at work makes me a little late on posting this week's NerdArt Picks, but better late than never, eh?  Science ...

The Straight Guy’s Guide to Reading The Gay Teen’s Guide to Defeating A Siren

I know a lot of writers. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bragging. No name-dropping. The reality is that I know a lot of writers because I work with multiple ...

FlashFic: New Gaea

I really liked this image from last week's Nerd Art Picks. This one is courtesy of Ivan Malinin over at Art Station. Ivan's pic instantly inspired me because of the ...

Weekly NerdArt Picks | 2-15-17

For the most part, my searching is kept to DeviantArt and Art Station. This isn't for any philosophical reason, rather it's just for convenience. This week, most of my picks ended ...

TV’s Best SciFi Show The Expanse, or Why I Can’t Get Any Actual Writing Done

Last week I finally got caught up on the second season of James S A Corey’s The Expanse, and I have to say that I really want to profess my ...

Weekly NerdArt Picks | 2-8-17

So, I want to try to do something a little different. I’m going to head out into the wild Internets and grab my favorite geeky images for, curating them into ...

The Wheel of Equality: Robert Jordan’s Interesting View on Women Through the Eyes of The Wheel of Time

So… I’ve just finished rereading the entire Wheel of Time series. The first time, I got through Book 10, Crossroads of Twilight, and then fell off the map of reading ...

Of Flying Cars and Space Planes

Despite having basically supercomputers in our pockets, cars that nearly drive themselves and being just a few years from robots doing almost all manual labor, getting into space is still ...

Once Upon A Time, I Went To See Doctor Strange

For the first time in a long time, I was able to take my birthday off from work. Of course, my birthday was actually on a Saturday, so I took ...

The Rise of Humanity

(This is Part 2 of 2 articles on The Future of Labor and The Human Race. Go here for Part 1.) In my previous post I laid out all the doom ...