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Series Review Peacemaker is completely silly, rude, irreverent, immature, and yet it’s fun. If you like foul-mouthed superhero stuff like  ...

Audiobook Review A Scifi story taking place in a single-star system (I think, it wasn't clear to me at first) where three different plan...

Series Review Disney has a lot of new Marvel series, and keeps adding to them. There’s Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki,...

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Writing I've posted about this before, but wanted to show what can be done with some post processing. You'll find the online tool he...

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Writing  +  Reference The following is a completely dishonest, biased, male-viewpoint, misogynistic, unfair and unhinged :-) approach to wri...

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Writing How do you pick the perfect title for your story, well... here's an attempt to set some basic rules and make it easier... (Warni...

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Writing / Datatalk / TTS. Well, it's not really that alien 😇 but I think this is my third post with TTS examples, and this time I'v...

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Writing  +  Reference I know nothing! Indeed I don't! You are absolutely right! So, here's a collection of links that are way better...

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Writing  +  Reference This post is pretty much a rehash, but I just can't stress it enough: formatting, punctuation and spelling are mor...

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Datatalk. Here's a nice and troublesome one. When you use an external keyboard with a tablet, such as the Logitech K380 together with th...

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Book Review Wintermoon  by Dean Koontz would make a good movie. As a book, it's just 'so...so...'. I can't recall the title ...

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Series Review. Back in 1995 I was staying in China, looking for something to watch on late-night Guangzhou television. Well, Hong Kong telev...

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