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All good things… 16 May 2012 | 09:57 am
Well this is it. After six years or so this will be the last entry on Quit Your Day Job. That’s right this blog will no longer be updated. However, this is nowhere near the end. I’m simply moving ...
Thoughts of a Storm Trooper part 64 and 65: the finale 14 May 2012 | 10:24 am
Just give me a minute. I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that all of these posts were written months ago so this moment has already happened quite some time ago for me. I guess when I’m read...
Thoughts of a Storm Trooper part 63 7 May 2012 | 11:04 am
I feel bad for the Storm Troopers on the Death Star during the end fight, they can’t really do anything except run around. Who needs that when there are sirens and explosions and all you can do is go...
My morning with the Storm Troopers 5 May 2012 | 04:36 pm
If you’re a regular reader of the Thoughts of a Storm Trooper series then you may have seen Steve aka TK5389 mention that Brisbane’s very own garrison of the 501st Legion the Redback Garrison would b...
Half a sketch with my new Wacom Inkling 1 May 2012 | 11:02 am
So for my birthday Tracey got me a cool new toy to play with, the Wacom Inkling. Basically the device allows you to sketch on normal paper using its pen and it will record every stroke and store it d...
Thoughts of a Storm Trooper part 62 30 Apr 2012 | 10:55 am
I had really wanted today to be the final issue of Thoughts of a Storm Trooper as it would have been cool to finish this up on my birthday. These were all written months ago in a surge of inspiration...
Covered piece was rejected 28 Apr 2012 | 01:15 pm
This was the piece I submitted to Covered a week or so ago. I can’t say that I’m all that disappointed with not making the cut because the act of doing is always so much more fun and it’s cool that th...
Left to your own devices, I completely agree with Turkle, however… 27 Apr 2012 | 06:15 pm
There’s a great article on the New York Times website called The Flight From Conversation by Professor Sherry Turkle (apologies to Sherry if I’ve used the incorrect title there). You should read it, i...
Thoughts of a Storm Trooper part 61 23 Apr 2012 | 10:54 am
I had to use it sometime. I’ve only got a couple of parts left so it’s time to start wrapping things up and making sure I get every line in that I was hoping to. I like how in almost any science fic...
So I started reading Ender’s Game 21 Apr 2012 | 03:02 pm
After going back and forth I finally decided on reading the novel of Ender’s Game rather than the comic book. I’m pretty happy with that decision as so far the book is nothing short of brilliant, cle...