Back to creative writing

(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…

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Recurrent conversation topics

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…

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Apocalypse Report Card

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…

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Life Buddies

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…

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Predictions for 2045

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…

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2015 – “Priorities”

The word of the year is “Priorities” Resolutions follow: Health – I’m becoming redundant. Let’s say… 12 pull ups in a row. Wealth – Dig my way out of at least two credit cards worth of debt. Mind – Send one of my major creative projects out into the ether (screenplay, novel, stand up, zerø,…

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