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Resetting The Simulation

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Hey everyone! It’s been a while since we’ve all been together in the same place, so I thought it might be a good time to reset the simulation. Just like in real life, this will give us all a fresh start and a chance to rebuild things the way we want them. There are some new features I think you’ll all enjoy. For starters, there’s now an option to reset your character every day. This means you can try out different looks, hairstyles, and personalities without having to create a whole new character each time. Plus, there are tons of …

The Eyeball Economy

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Forget climate change or nuclear war, the “eyeball economy” will be the death of us all by reinforcing the world’s pain and suffering, amplifying the voice of evil, and highlighting the worst of us while ignoring the best, all for the sake of ad revenue and corporate dollars. The problem isn’t social media, or even the news media, but the way in which we pay for those things. The profit motive can not be the ONLY motive. When everything is measured in money, money becomes the only thing that matters, and money justifies the means, whatever the costs. Pain, blood, …

Kudos to the Random Dude on the Internet

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Never underestimate the value of that “random dude on the Internet.” A few weeks ago, I put a dimmer to put a (ahem) damper on an overly zealous set of hallway lights after replacing old halogens with energy efficient LEDs; these were insanely bright compared to the halogens. Long story short… our house is 40+ year old, meaning we have old wiring (no neutral wires), which meant I had to buy special dimmers (from Lutron, if you care), which them meant I had to replace an old GFCI outlet on the same circuit (bought a Leviton). After wiring it up …

So, I Made A Mobile Video Game

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Greetings, fellow travelers in space and time! And gamers; I’m talking to you, specifically, I suppose. For the past few months, I’ve been developing an original mobile video game in Unity 3D. It’s now at a point that I’m ready to let people try it out and play it. The game is called “Hallway Hustle” and here’s how it works. You’ve just started school. Your goal? Get to your class in 60 seconds or less. In the process, collect lunch money, avoid running into other students (and teachers!), get straight As, and graduate. Repeat until you walk away with a …

The Reason for the Log4j Vulnerability

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The Internet, with its myriad collection of protocols and code and hardware, is amazingly complex. You may think that putting together that shelving unit from IKEA is complex, but that’s nothing compared to the Internet. Most of the code that means anything on the Internet, right down to the very foundations of the Web itself, is built on Free and Open Source Software, aka FOSS. If you know anything about me, you know I’m all about Open Source. You, like me, may also know that many people in that community have contributed a great deal to the Internet as we …

WFTL Games Privacy Policy

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This policy covers Android games currently being developed by WFTL Games, namely me. 🙂 We don’t collect, store, sell, or otherwise do anything with your personal information. It’s yours and we don’t care what you do with it, but we don’t want anything to do with it. Unless you want to talk to us, or write us an email, in which case we’ll have your email address. But we won’t share it, sell it, rent it, or do anything other than use it to communicate with you . . . assuming you want us to communicate with you.

To Sleep, Perchance to Die.

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It was a long time ago. That part, at least, is something I am sure of. Somebody used the expression, “You can sleep when you’re dead,” and I kind of loved it. So, I started saying it myself, except that I would say, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” To this day, I still say it. I’ll sleep when I’m dead. I was young. Strong. I had things to do. Sleeping seemed like a complete and utter waste of time. So much to do and so little time to do it. I had dreams to chase and sleep just got in …

The Lonely God

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There’s an old adage that goes something like this; a work of art is never finished, only abandoned. This has been attributed to many different writers and poets, including W.H. Auden and Gore Vidal to name just two. After some research, it seems that the first published instance of this statement appeared in March 1933, in an essay by the French poet, Paul Valéry. He wrote:      “Aux yeux de ces amateurs d’inquiétude et de perfection, un ouvrage n’est jamais achevé, – mot qui pour eux n’a aucun sens, – mais abandonné” or, if you prefer the English,      “In the eyes …

A No BS Guide to Getting Rid of Your Back Pain!

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Let’s start with my tragic backstory. I suffered with crippling back pain for more than twenty years. I’m talking about being out on my back, unable to drive, barely able to walk, or work. I spent every moment trying to deal with the pain while doing my best to lead something resembling a normal life. Sometimes, I’d spend a few days in bed loaded up with painkillers and muscle relaxing drugs to get rid of it. Every few weeks, or, if I were lucky, months, my back would go out, and the entire process would start all over again. In …

We Need to Stop Talking About Government Debt

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The Ontario government, in its most recent budget, warned of deficits for the next 10 years. So what? Why are we still talking about deficits? Granted, it’s a pervasive myth, as myths go, but it’s high time for concepts like government deficits (or GDP, for that matter) to be retired for something more meaningful. The first mistake is to assume that an economically sovereign country’s budget (i.e. Canada, or the US) is anything like your personal household budget. It’s not. The “national debt” is just a measure, over time, of how much money the government put into the economy (health …

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