Month: January 2015

Given the fact that I’m terrible at posting here – and the fact I started a half-dozen separate ventures (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) – I am going to treat this as the hub of all things me. I love ideas that seem like a good idea at first!…

(I might have once published this in my Pixelated Novel website, before it was hacked and had to be taken down. But I added to it today and I really like it.) Traynor and Well worked at Well’s dad’s copy shop after school. Traynor thought that he owed it to his foster family and Well…

If given free reign with a person of similar interests/background/sense of humor/etc., what conversation topics would be most likely to come up? That question randomly popped into my head because Emily, a graduate student in philosophy, remarked how she always found herself having to inform people that their ideas for a perpetual motion machine wouldn’t…

Hunting 1 Farming 3 First Aid 4 Gathering 6 Hacking 3 Sewing 8 (don’t judge me!) Fishing 5 Psychological Flexibility (read: won’t freak out) 8 Masonry 2 Welding 1 Hand-to-Hand Defense 9 Weaponry 8 Mechanics 4 Diplomacy 9 Fire Starting 3 Related posts: About The Blog A Pixelated Mind is a bit of everything you…

We have gym buddies, we have drinking buddies, and we have shopping buddies. I want a life buddy. Someone to remind me to work toward my goals and to motivate me daily. I think, ideally, best friends or life partners are supposed to be these people.. but my best friends and life partners are all…

Given that 26 years ago, Back to the Future II predicted the world of 2015 as imagined by people in the 1980s, I thought it would be a good exercise to make concise predictions about the world of 2045 as imagined by us now. Join in! Pete (an engineer) Engineering gets bigger, liberal arts go…