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Still Not Quite

Surgery did throw me off rhythm for a while, but I can’t really blame the first-person encounter with stomach lacerations without anesthesia for the long silence. It has a lot more to do with the twin devils of work and procrastination, the main reasons why I’m not exercising regularly, eating healthy, completing that damn first [...]

Taking the Gentle Approach

One intriguing perspective shift I was reminded of yesterday was that everything is an event. This does not mean that my having coffee this morning amounts to high drama ranking up there with The Ring Cycle (pick one) worthy of a rapt audience following every minute detail thereof, as many twitterinos seem to believe. It [...]

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The Mutating City

I’m on to Them. Finally, after years in the dark, playing the frog-to-be-boiled to their slow squeeze, I’ve realized what is going on: we’re getting boxed in. They tell me that the situation has been like this, or even worse for quite a while now in places such as the US, where there are actual [...]

On the Concept of Emergence In Various Systems

During the sixties, science fiction went through a bit of a revolution that seems to echo to this day. When fields such as sociology, psychology and history became the “S” in SF, the traditional branch stemming back to Wells and Verne, with the shoddy characterization and simple gung-ho narratives serving as little more than an [...]

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