Clockwork Dreams

Enthusiastically Unstable; Eloquently Retrotech
  • .: A Place of Writings :.

    Something of interest will go here. Someday.
  • Social logistics and friendship tiers

    Posted By Inventrix on August 17, 2010

    Due to a forum RP I’ve been participating in, I’ve been thinking a lot about various aspects of social interaction and whatnot lately. Things I am not very good at, have little experience in, and have not spent much time musing over.
    In the course of said recent musings, however, I realized something interesting about the [...]

    BBC’s ‘Sherlock’ – A GRAND REVIEW

    Posted By Inventrix on August 9, 2010

    SPOILERS GALORE! Do not read the rest if you have not seen all three episodes of ‘Sherlock’!

    Having friends is hard.

    Posted By Inventrix on August 9, 2010

    So I guess I hit a milestone in my interpersonal relationships today. Basically, I now have enough friends (albeit online and living in distant places) that I actually have distinct… ‘groups’, so to speak. And, uh, one of my friends clashed with a member of a group that contains a bunch of other friends.
    It’s actually [...]

    The Last Transmutation of the Fullmetal Alchemist

    Posted By Inventrix on July 13, 2010

    October, 2003. I was off at my first (academically ill-fated) semester of college, enjoying being surrounded by squadrons of like-minded geeks. One of my new friends and fellow anime-watchers told us he’d found this cool new series that had started a few weeks ago called Fullmetal Alchemist, and we should come check it out.
    And with [...]

    THE GREAT ANIME LIST

    Posted By Inventrix on July 7, 2010

    This is the list of all anime I have seen. It is still a WIP as I think I have forgotten some.
    They are alphabetical and categorized by how much of the series I have seen.
    Italics mean I would not recommend that you watch it.
    The Whole Thing
    08th MS Team
    Ayashi no Ceres
    Azumanga Daioh
    Big O
    Cowboy Bebop
    Digimon Adventure 02
    Dragonball
    Dragonball [...]

    Stupid Internet

    Posted By Inventrix on July 4, 2010

    I wrote up a whole big post about being American and independence and all kinds of awesomeness that would have made a great inspirational speech and my internet was dead so I couldn’t post it so I selected ’suspend to disk’ for my computer but it apparently actually just logged me out so I lost [...]

    Dealing With Procrastination

    Posted By Inventrix on June 25, 2010

    I was reading through someone’s formspring.me answers (specifically, Tom Siddell, the man who creates the fantastic Gunnerkrigg Court) and came across one dealing with procrastination. I don’t even remember the details of the question now, but the answer was basically “if you’re procrastinating doing something, it can’t be very important”.
    My first knee-jerk reaction (and that [...]

    I’m drawing a webcomic!

    Posted By Inventrix on June 8, 2010

    Yyyyep. You can visit it over here.
    It is basically a webcomic about being a writer of fiction which I execute with close to minimal drawing effort. It has slowly improved over the first, uh, five updates and I expect that to continue for a couple more posts as I get the hang of the most [...]

    A Calm Afternoon

    Posted By Inventrix on May 21, 2010

    The sun shone brightly in a perfectly clear blue sky, reflected by the gently swelling ocean below. The smooth, blue-as-sky surface rose and fell for miles, broken only by the drifting of a little while boat.
    She bobbed quietly on the waves, breaking the sea into sparkling fragments around her blue-and-white paint. A stray breeze caressed [...]

    Nook, Kindle, etc… What would make ME buy an e-book reader?

    Posted By Inventrix on May 4, 2010

    It’s a tough decision, shopping for an e-book reader. Not the least of which being that there is not a single e-book reader that even remotely approaches what I want. Especially when you have such lovely Kindle horror stories about losing your privacy or your lack of ownership of your possessions.
    Which begs the question: what [...]