works of wanderlust

Tag: inspiration struck

  • game con-spiration

    game con-spiration

    I’ve been a lazy game developer lately.  A couple months ago I was proudly telling people how much progress I was making on Pleck’s Mart. Heck I was logging at least—at least—a couple hours every day adding to the code base and debugging the game and making art and then sitting at the cafe writing

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  • Creative Cooking: Rolling & Wrapping

    Yesterday I wrote about my philosophy of hacking the grilled cheese sandwich: that it was part of an effort  to learn to fix (or improve a recipe) by taking it apart, breaking it, and trying to make it better. Hacking it. Not everyone thinks about food that way, however. So I thought I’d start a

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  • Houseguests & Hobbled Pursuits

    Long-time friends travelled from a neighbouring province this past weekend and used our basement guest room as a free hotel suite while they were attending their son’s sport tournament in our city. Six hours of driving from their house to ours has not been a particularly restrictive barrier for more routine visits previously so much

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  • One Hundred Daily Posts

    It’s Saturday, and while there are a dozen other things I could write about this morning I wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on a milestone. One hundred posts. I started this blog on the first of January and keeping apace of a single post each and every day since New Years Day

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  • iced windows

    cold draft, I shiverand firm up my willsunrise view obscuredthrough ice on the sill sub-thirty degreesbeyond two glass panesbreach fortress of warmthamid frosted plains one finger to glassturns frost into tearsreleasing brief drops from chill winters fears raw radiant chill bracing, brisk and boldI draw shut the blindsand hide from the cold – bardo It

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