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The Side Dish of Doom

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

Open letter to the Internet: The incredible success of the potato salad Kickstarter is simply a modern example of performance art. Like the million dollar home page or the eBay-nanza of religious-icon toast before it, it won’t kill its medium Continue reading →

Posted in Meme | Tagged kickstarter | Leave a reply

An Open Letter to the FCC About Net Neutrality

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Hunter — 1 Comment ↓

This is the email I sent to the FCC commissioners at the end of April. I’ll rework it a bit to send to my senators and representatives. Feel free to use it as a basis for your own communications, and Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged fcc, net neutrality, politics | 1 Reply

Calendars and Pi

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Hunter — No Comments ↓
PiByPosamentier

Yesterday was the 52nd day of 2014 by the calendar I use. Since there are about 52 weeks in a year, that means if the year were a week, we just got through Monday. 2014 is 1/7 gone, and it Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Time | Leave a reply

The New Clear Option

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

I’d like to make a quick pass of today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip: First, I think it’s funny. I get the joke, and it’s a good one. SMBC is a great comic, and one that I read regularly through Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged linguistics, saturday morning breakfast cereal, webcomics | Leave a reply

The Mighty Weretyrannosaurus for Pathfinder

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Hunter — 1 Comment ↓
Jungle Giant Weretyrannosaurus hybrid form, art by Dan Smith

This is another self-challenge: the lycanthrope template in Pathfinder allows it to be applied to any humanoid creature within one size category of the base animal. So how big to Pathfinder animals get? There are a couple of Colossals—the great Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged bestiary, dinosaurs, lycanthropes, pathfinder | 1 Reply

Throwing in the Vowel

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Hunter — 2 Comments ↓

If you’re a native English speaker, you probably learned in elementary school that there are five or six vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. The letters that aren’t vowels are consonants. It’s a nice enough rule of Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged linguistics, vowels | 2 Replies

Add a Word, Ruin a Movie

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

Another Twitter pun meme went on in October, and seems to have enjoyed a recent resurgence. The idea is to take a well-known film title and add a word to it, yielding a (presumably) unwatchable movie. #AddaWordRuinaMovie has even spawned Continue reading →

Posted in Meme | Tagged puns, tro lo lo guy | Leave a reply

Urrakur: A troll Storm Kindler pirate for Pathfinder

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

As I was knocking around some character ideas and checking out the Prestige Class options, I noticed that the Paths of Prestige‘s Storm Kindler had the unusual prerequisite “Must worship a god of storms.” (This is unusual in that it’s Continue reading →

Posted in Gaming | Tagged pathfinder, pirate, troll, urxehl | Leave a reply

The Keys to Your Web Kingdom

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓

Some quick rules of thumb for those of you with a website and a website admin (someone you contact when you need something changed or updated on the site), based on my attempts to do some things with those websites: Continue reading →

Posted in Money | Tagged drupal, joomla, web development, wordpress | Leave a reply

XO Box: A Different Kind of Palindrome

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Hunter — No Comments ↓
An example XO Box, © J. Hunter Johnson

Thanks to hanging out with some puzzling people on Facebook, and growing up playing word games in general, I noticed oddities of letter arrangements while I’m writing. Like say I was figuring out how to make the past tense of Continue reading →

Posted in Meme, Writing | Tagged palindromes, puzzles, wordplay | Leave a reply

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