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Weekend Roundup: May 10-16


  Tweet of the Day: Blurry Eavesdroppers ——- Summer is here in full force. Yes we have a drought in a tropical island. It rains but the failures of decades old infrastructure means that if it drizzles instead of pouring, the tap goes dry. Water rationing started this week and will continue until the foreseeable […]

Weekend Roundup: April 27- May 2


  Tweet of the Day: What Really Happened to Arcades ——- Summer is finally here, and oh boy, did ever come with a heat way. Well, more like a wall of fire. Mind you, since I live in the tropics it is never actually cool, but going from low 80s (Fahrenheit) to a full 100 […]

Weekend Roundup: April 12-18


  Tweet of the Day: Tumblr Fandom Doesn’t Owe You Sales ——- Haven’t done one of these in awhile but now that I put enough content down to justify this roundup, let us see what this week brought us as far as posting: Mon: TV Tropes- Enemy Chatter Wed: Mass Effect/AEC- Quisling Thu: Mass Effect/AEC- […]

Weekend Roundup: January 11-17


  Tweet of Day: What to expect when you’re linkspamming (16 january 2015) ——- What a miserable little week this was. A lot of running around that accomplished virtually nothing. Except edge me closer to a nasty medical diagnosis (not mine, but a close family member). We need to see the results of further testing […]

Weekend Roundup: December 21-27


Tweet of the Day: “Mrs. Yaga” Anthologized ——- What a year. As always it started with much fan fare and yet…well here we are. This year was dominated by family illness. One minor crisis snowballing into another. I simply carried on. At the end of the day that is all you can do, carry on. […]

Weekend Roundup: October 19-25


Tweet of the Day:  Megastructures ——– The bad news first: I spent the last weekend with a family member in the emergency room. A combination of ill health, bad emergency room care, and worse timing meant endless hours running around. Said family member is on the mend, but the whole situation has left me physically […]

Weekend Wrapup: October 12-18


  Tweet of the Day: 8 Elements to NAILING Your Plot & Owning NaNo ——- Oh this week…. The week of something awful. That vague feeling that nothing is right with the world. Mind you, if you’re keeping up with the news there is a lot of people screaming about a lot of scary things, […]

Weekend Roundup: June 22-28


Tweet of the Day: The Ivy At The Window ——- The end of the year approaches! Wait, wait, I know that we are in the middle of summer, but it already feels like the bottom half of the year. Why? The seasonal sales are back. You know the ones that arrive earlier and earlier, usually […]

Weekend Roundup: June 1-June 7


  Tweet of the Day: Building Eden Down the Docks ——– Right now, as of this moment, I feel like I’m immersed in a bowl of lukewarm soup. It is hot enough to make me sweat, but not enough to burn me. Summer, oh gentle readers, is here with a vengeance. The kind of heat […]

Weekend Roundup: May 25-31


  Tweet of the Day: Fear and Aspiration: on Gun Desire ——- Talk about an eventful week, and not all in a good way. Still I managed to bring back some of the blog oldies like Lessons from the Aether and Wizards’ World War.  I call that a win. And of course, summer is in […]