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Is it possible to make a living as a genre fiction writer? Yes it is.

Thoughts on indie game development. Humor. General crabbiness and bad feelings.

A Daily History of Holes, Dots, Lines, Science, History, Math, Physics, Art, the Unintentional Absurd, Architecture, Maps, Data Visualization, Blank and Missing Things, and so on. |1.6 million words, 7500 images, 4.9 million hits| Press & appearances in The Times, Le Figaro, Mensa, The Economist, The Guardian, Discovery News, Slate, Le Monde, Sci American Blogs, Le Point, and many other places... 5000+ total posts since 2008.. Contact johnfptak at gmail dot com

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jell-ing classic cocktails, one drink at a time . . .

"It is much easier to make good men wise than to make bad men good." Henry Fielding, 1749