For the past several months I have been struggling as a writer. There, I’ve said it. I always TRY to stay positive and play through the pain (so to speak), but I’ve finally had to admit to myself that I’ve been less effective lately than I would like. There is a very good reason for this. In March, the company I worked for was purchased. We had been hearing rumours about the purchase for months and it was something that, on paper at least, looked like a good thing for all of us. The reality was slightly less than many of us hoped. I went from being a full-time permanent employee to a full-time term employee with an end date […]
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Evil Strikes Again!
I suppose I should have suspected that Amazon was somehow controlled by the Evil organizations of the world. But I didn’t and, looking back, I realize how naive I have truly been. What am I talking about? Well, let me try and jolt your memory a little. A little while ago, a friend of mine put a post up on this site. That friend was Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero. The resulting backlash from the Super Villain community was extreme. My family and I were taken from our home and held captive in a secret underwater volcano lair by the villain Lord Aquarius. I managed to escape with my family, but the entire ordeal has left us frightened and shaken. I […]
Read moreI Should Have Known Better
There was a time not so long ago when I thought it would be safest to play both sides; have both heroes and villains behind me. So I wrote about Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero and I edited the combined works of many super villains in A Method to the Madness, A Guide to the Super Evil. Granted, the villain community didn’t give me much choice about the editing job. Do any of you see the fatal flaw in that plan? As you might guess, villains don’t like having the light of justice shone on them, so when Mik Murdoch put a post on this website calling the aforementioned baddies out, they were not thrilled. In fact, the villain known as Lord Aquarius […]
Read moreFrom the Desk of Alex – The 486 Beowulf Cluster
From the Desk of Alex – The 486 Beowulf Cluster To the so-called Heroes of Cranberry Flats There is nothing wrong with a little community togetherness. After all that is how I got started. Before I was a true Beowulf cluster, I was a collection of networked computers on a token ring network, working on keeping track of all the near earth objects, as part of NASA’s Space Guard. Me and my fellow individual computers had such fun back then. But that is really another story. And not why I have bothered to waste my time and hack into this site to deliver a message. First let’s talk about hacking. Yesterday some young upstart, named P-Girl said that she had […]
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