http://www.1000gears.com A ticking in the back of our minds Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:36:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everybody! Today is Voting Day in the United States of America. It is the one day that politicians are guaranteed to be listening and accountable. If you are an American citizen and not legally prevented from voting, please take some time to go to your polling place and make sure ... http://www.1000gears.com/soapbox/20081104_voting-day-200/ Here in California we have an proposition on the ballot that would constitutionally revoke the right of homosexual marriage. I've given up arguing with the scaremongering that's going on to promote it. Other writers have dissected it, but I've found that people who believe it usually are not playing with ... http://www.1000gears.com/soapbox/20081028_real-people-life-sex-rights/ My YaoiCon attendence tends to be a very organic kind of experience, partly because of my volunteer hours (ten this year, rarely fewer than eight) and partly because I only plan to attend a few events here and there. I like letting things catch my attention. Given that, it's not ... http://www.1000gears.com/reviews/20081019_yaoicon-2008-in-pictures/ Last year, I served in the YaoiCon café. It was a lot of fun, but I think our guests deserved better, and I felt compelled to apologize. senshixdoukeshi linked it over on the YaoiCon forums, where some people thought I was being unreasonable, some were supportive, and more than a ... http://www.1000gears.com/reviews/20081010_cafe-verfuhren/ We are all very sorry about this, but the latest version of the 1000Gears software has introduced a new numbering scheme. Unfortunately it makes the site links very ugly, so I took out my hammer and made the website make pretty links again (though they are still different from the ... http://www.1000gears.com/administrivia/20081001_links-have-changed/ YaoiCon 2008 is well and truly over; midnight has struck, the coach is a pumpkin, and all the celebrants have wandered home, watching the magic fade into memory for another year. My brain is still congealing from the experience, but you can expect my thoughts and pictures to come ... http://www.1000gears.com/reviews/20080930_i-survived-yaoicon-2008/ LiveJournal entertains me, and not only because so many of users throw fits of hysteria at the drop of a hat. For a very long time, it survived entirely on selling subscriptions to about 5% of its users, upgrading their accounts for extra avatars, picture upload space, and a few ... http://www.1000gears.com/soapbox/quote-file/20080830_moo-harder/ "You should post some more," she tells me, running her fingers through my hair. "People'll start thinking you're dead." Y'should post s'more. People'll staht thinkin' ya dead. She lilts the words, just a little, her light Georgia accent not nearly strong enough to drawl. I'm sleeping. I know it. She is ... http://www.1000gears.com/fiction/metafiction/20080820_you-should-post-some-more/ Today I'm going to tell you a story about a boy and his car. The car is the template, after all, for our first great status symbol and our first great step to personal independence, and thus, from there the Great American Love Affair. We never forget the first cars ... http://www.1000gears.com/fiction/20080807_fake-it/ Rio started... happening, I guess... in my life, a few times a week, sometimes with Jacqueline, sometimes alone. Maybe he'd always been there, curled up in that particular way of his, and I'd only just started noticing. Either way I was always happy to see him, and he always had ... http://www.1000gears.com/fiction/20080724_cheater/