Let’s invent words: Glimfleeble
Glimfleeble is now a word, I decided. Glimfleeble adj. Something that looks or sounds impressive and/or important because you have no idea what it is or how it works.
Category: Reflections and thoughts
Postcards from my dream realms
I’ve been playing with the idea of dream postcards – fragments of my realm of dreams and imagination shared as glimpses into the rich and often complex inner world that is me. I’m still working on the name – I feel it has to be just right to work. I …
All heroes fall in the end
I’ve spent more than a reasonable amount of time figuring out how to feel and move past the news concerning my one-time literary hero, Neil Gaiman. After a serious back and forth in my mind I arrived at the station marked, “All heroes fall in the end“. This might not …
WITNESS: Distopia or useful? A story idea.
WITNESS is a theoretical system that logs number plates in an encrypted database that can later give you a WITNESS statement if it saw a target car or bike at a given time. I could make it for real but I am mostly exploring the idea for fiction. I had …
Solving my murder mystery – part one
In the update, I hinted that the first step was to resolve the guests and plus-ones. In this post, I am going to walk you through some of the clues and try to figure out who the guests and plus-ones were. Massive spoilers to follow. This is the grid that …
Why the Earth moving is not a Time Traveller’s problem (probably)
For the 7th of December #TimeTravelAuthors question set by Julie Bihn, will be (unless any of you go back and change it) the question of the Earth moving. I shall make the case that this is not a problem at all. Or, rather, I will make several independent cases. “But …
The Case for Silly-n-Fun Sci-Fi: A Manifesto
There is a sense you can get in some quarters that Sci-Fi that isn’t serious (Hard Sci-Fi) is (in some gatekeeper way) invalid. I’m calling BS on that right here. Soft Sci-Fi is still Sci-Fi. Fans of the hardest Sci-Fis might not like it but the world does not turn …
Do you need more murder mystery clues?
The murder mystery logic game had its last update at the end of last week. In theory, this is enough clues to solve the case and identify the killer. Theory is all well and good but do you need more clues? Speak up now because I am planning the reveal …
My social node
While it is true I do not update here all that often, I do update what I call Matt’s Social Node which is half blog, half social media (via Mastodon and AtivityPub). If you subscribe to my node, you will get updates about all my blogs.
A garden but indoors (a project idea)
Is an indoor garden a realistic dream? And is it something that can be done on a budget? I would love to have my own garden. Something that is probably not ever going to happen. This is why I would like to figure out how to make my flat into …