Wed 16 July 2025

Welcome to the PADDING.

This blost is a part of the interstitial spaces that make up my blog. It's here to support other blosts. Think of it as one of the glial cells supporting the superstructure of the twisted online brain that is https://rldane.space/.

Of course, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be read! I will do what I can to make this blost interesting:

BOOGER!!!

See? INTERESTING!!

Anyway "blost" is a particularly blursed coat-carrying word devised by the evil, likely extraterrestrial mind of my good fedifriend, Amin, consisting of the words blog and post.

While I am happy to use the term, and hashtag the ever-living snot out of it, I still maintain that it is somewhat unnerving as a word, sounding like some kind of tumor, like "blastoma."

So there you go. Blogosphere?
Pheh! Welcome to the

blostoZONE!!!!

100 Days to Offload 2025 - Day 38

Category: Writing Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Humor Non-religious post Non-technical post Social Media Writing

Sat 11 January 2025

I came across this set of questions from hyde (a.k.a. Lazy Bear)'s blog, and immediately loved it. It reminds me a bit of the kind of overly personal* questions that got passed between friends on facebook circa 2008, and email circa 2000.

* They didn't feel overly personal …

Category: Writing Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Hobbies Non-religious post Productivity Social Media Writing

Wed 01 January 2025

After the enjoyable success of Writing Month last November, I feel like I want to start a new challenge for 2025: "100 Days To Offload."

I'm going to aim for 10 blog posts per month (which is an average of one blog post every 3.04 days), finishing on October …

Category: Writing Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Hobbies Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Productivity Writing

Thu 31 October 2024

FediFriend Amin wrote this in Early September:

Well, NaNoWriMo has made an official statement that they believe categorical condemnation of "AI" to be classist and ableist. I'm… I'm just done with them.

I used to overlook issues I was seeing with the organization behind NaNo, but… this is too much …

Category: Writing Tagged: Ethics Non-religious post Non-technical post Writing WritingMonth

Fri 01 December 2023

I've heard about NaNoWriMo going back at least eight years. I had classmates (back when I was a middle-aged college student ;) talk to me about it, but I always thought the 50,000 words goal was just unattainable.

This year, I finally stepped up to the plate and participated, although …

Category: Writing Tagged: Non-religious post Non-technical post Writing WritingMonth