After playing Skies of Arcadia (probably my favorite JRPG of all time, with the only main character I can ever cosplay as), I took a liking to the Age of Exploration: a time where new lands could be explored with a good ship and a lot of gumption.
I started asking friends: “If you could go back to another time in history, what would it be?” The girl I liked said the 20’s, she’d like to be a flapper girl, wear hats, that kind of thing. My favorite response:
Yeah… when you’re black, going back in time isn’t something you fantasize about often.
While I pass for white, being in technology and listening to music assisted by technology… I’m going to have to agree. I love 2011, and I love that I’ll love 2031 even more.
I once saw Tony Kushner speak (playwright, author of Angels in America and Caroline, or Change, among other things). During his talk he mentioned a cute litle anecdote to illustrate how he felt about Dramaturges in the playwriting process.
The story went something like this: a friend of his was given a playwriting grant, but a condition of the grant was to work with a professional dramaturge on each draft of the work. Said friend hated collaboration, and especially didn’t like the dramaturge assigned to him. So before the first draft was due, he wrote his first draft. He also wrote his second draft. For his first deadline with the dramaturge, he handed him the first draft.
And every subsequent due date, the dramaturge would be one draft behind the author. The dramaturge would send his notes for draft n, the author would throw them away, work on draft n + 2, and send the dramaturge the already-existing draft n + 1 at the next due date.
As far as we know, the dramaturge never caught on.
Welcome to the new morepaul.com! After tons of reading, I decided to move my blog over to Jekyll, for a variety of reasons:
First, I like having all my content, readily available, in plain text on any of my local machines. This has tons of upsides, the most prominent being absolute control of all the elements of my blog. Notice the text justification is actually using the Knuth line-breaking algorithm, implemented in Javascript!
This system also allows me to author pages using Vim, in Markdown; it allows me to post code snippets without going off-site to Gist; it allows me to structure my blog as a Git repository, which I find intuitive.
Altogether, this should make for a better experience. Should I choose to make a starcraft.morepaul.com or a scrabblecheat.morepaul.com, this would let me do it.
In the meantime, a few caveats: YouTube links of times prior didn’t survive the transition. I’m working on getting them back, but it’ll be some time. The blog is also a bit ugly at the moment, though I’ll be making little updates here and there to improve it. Note that if you’d like to visit the previous iteration of this blog, it’s still up at http://littleschemer.blogspot.com, and I have no intention of taking it down. New posts will show up here, naturally.
