Website Update

Weird Words Announcement

by on Jun.25, 2013, under Announcements, Articles, Website Update, Weird Words, Writing

Just a quick announcement. Weird Words will be moving from its regular postings on Friday to Monday, where I hope it might better benefit readers who do more writing during the week than on the weekends. So look forward to the final Friday weird word this Friday and a new one this coming Monday!

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A Singularity is Two Years Old!

by on Oct.10, 2012, under Announcements, Articles, Identify Yourself, Website Update

Welcome to A Singularity, a single point which collects anything that is unique, odd, or just plain interesting.

A Singularity is now officially two years old and honestly, it feels far longer and shorter at the same time. I remember getting this place up and going and that seems so long ago. And yet when I think about all the things I’ve done for the site, all the changes it has gone through, they seem to run together like they just happened yesterday. A Singularity been something of a surprising success for me. While it has achieved (and not achieved  several unexpected things, and the quality and rate of content has varied significantly over time, I’m still astounded and proud to have kept a website running for two solid years with regular original and shared content.

As for the future, time will tell. Experiments with other social media have proven to me that this site is still my favorite in terms of sharing my own original content, so there is no worry there. What kind of content this site delivers will, of course, always be subject to change. For now Weird Words, Free Write, and the occasional Writing Time, Comic Links, and Comic suggestions will continue to come out as much as possible, along with the odd article or shared video or item as time allows. A makeover is wanted and may eventually be implemented one of these days so look forward to that. Better integration with social media sites like Twitter and Tumblr may happen but as always, I will make direct reading and RSS/Atom feeds my primary concern for distribution. I have some other ideas cooking in my head but, of course, there is only so much time in the day, and so much writing, working, and gaming to get done. Maybe one of these days I’ll be able to free myself of one of these vices!

Until then I want to thank you so much for reading my site. I, of course, welcome all comments and commentary (that isn’t spam) on anything I post, including suggestions for improving the site in some way shape or form.

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Announcement: The more things change…

by on Mar.06, 2012, under Announcements, Website Update

So as I mentioned before, A Singularity is going to be undergoing changes. Starting today, there will no longer be regular content on A Singularity. Instead  daily random stuff found on the internet shall be collected on A Singularity’s Tumblr!

There is already content there waiting to be looked at. Here is the RSS feed for the Tumblr site. The Tumblr site still acts as a repeater for the main A Singularity website. For those of you who don’t want multi-daily updates, at some point in the near future I’ll start posting summary posts which collect all the unique Tumblr posts from the past week into one entry for your pursing.

Not all content will be disappearing. Weird Words, Comic Links, Writing Time, and the occasional random article will still be appearing here on A Singularity. Also look forward to the revamping of Free Writing sometime soon.

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Announcement: A tumblring we will go

by on Feb.14, 2012, under Announcements, Articles, Blog, Website Update

So some more changes are happening. A lot of the content that you see here is going to be going away. Yeah. All the videos and comic links and such? Poof! Why? Because I’m going to be reserving room on this blog for more of my content. Posting opinion pieces, reviews, my writing, and writing I do elsewhere. Weird Words will continue and maybe a few other article ideas. Perhaps Comic Links, since comics are rather dear to me.

The other content isn’t going away however. Far be it for me to deprive the internet of my opinion on what is good or funny. Instead most of that content will be moving to Tumblr.

A Singularity [Tumblr Edition]

Tumblr is a lot like a condensed blog. I like to think of it like if Blogspot and Twitter had a weird genetically modified offspring, Tumblr would be it. It focuses on posting content quickly but with little restriction, and allows those people with Tumblr accounts to share it on their blogs quickly an easily, similar to re-tweeting.

Now A Singularity [Tumblr Edition] has existed in the past but it has acted as a repeater for this blog. Now it will be showing exclusive content. Now in the future I may start creating summary posts of Tumblr content here, perhaps on weekend days, for those of you who don’t want to go make a Tumblr account. Also if you’re a big fan of RSS and don’t want to make a Tumblr account, Tumblr fully supports RSS. Get A Singularity [Tumblr Edition]’s RSS feed here. Keep in mind that content here will be reproduced over there, so you might have some duplication.

There is already some original content on the Tumblr, so go check it out.

More updates as they come available.

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Welcome to A Singularity!

by on Nov.30, 2011, under Announcements, Website Update

So the acute reader might have noticed a few small changes around here. Namely that we’ve changed our name! That’s right TheSingularityBlog.net is now ASingularity.net. Welcome and enjoy!

Why the change?

Two reasons. One originally wanted the name for this site to be Singularity.net, which was already taken and still is at the moment. Secondly I was kind of getting tired of people confusing my bog with The Singularity, referring to the technological singularity that is being referenced in popular science fiction culture. While I do have a significant interest in the technological singularity and transhumanity in general, it does not constitute a significant portion of this site’s content.

The original idea for picking the name Singularity was to play off the concept of the gravitational singularity, like the black hole, where everything is collected in one single place. Content I find or create is collected here on this website for all to see. I feel the name A Singularity better fits this theme. As our new subtitle shows

I’m scared of change. I think I need an adult.

It’s okay! TheSingularityBlog.net domain will continue to work just fine for a long while. I do ask that any readers who feel inclined, look around and see if anything has broken, link wise, or keeps referring to the old address instead of the new one.

Okay what else?

Well you may have also noticed that content created by me is now being licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Creative Commons License

The legal page has been updated to reflect this. This means that stuff I created, such as my writing, can be shared anywhere in full or piece meal as long as you attribute me and link back to this site as the original creator and the intent is not to profit monetarily from my content. Things shared on this blog that are not created by me are not covered under this license, however.

Okay that’s cool. Anything else?

  • I’ve given up plans for The Library, pages that collected cool things I like with meta data explaining what it was. It was a fun idea but just too much work for too little of my time.
  • The about page has been updated to better reflect and explain the blog’s current incarnation.
  • More change will be afoot soon!

More change!?

Yup! I’m looking into changing themes from a darker colored theme to a lighter one to allow for better long-term reading of my writing content. I’ll also be expanding my other website links to accommodate the lack of the library. Finally I’ll be working to create an RSS feed page that will help make it easier to subscribe to particular content the site posts.

I can’t take this anymore!

Good because we’re done.

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One Year Anniversary: Welcome to the Singularity

by on Oct.10, 2011, under Announcements, Identify Yourself, Website Update

Welcome! Welcome to The Singularity, a blog that collects things of interest I find from around the internet and the world, and offers them up to you. Today is not too special of a day, save for it being a Monday, but it is the one year anniversary of The Singularity being up and running.

And according to my stats, I think you guys like it. Sure The Singularity is no massive aggregator site, or even all that topical of a blog, and if I tried to monetize the site I’d be broke in under a week but I still feel happy to see a handful of people bouncing off the site every day and occasionally leaving comments. I’m happy to bring all this content to you and feel I’m providing some kind of a service, even if it is something akin to a mediocre Tumblr feed on most occasions.

Speaking of Tumblr feeds, the site has evolved a bit from what I thought it would be and I do hope it’ll evolve again in the coming year. In prior announcements I’ve talked about updating themes to be more readable and accessible for the type of content I seem to be regularly posting and I haven’t forgotten about that. For those of you reading to catch my writing updates, I’ll be updating about that soon. NaNoWriMo is just around the corner, after all. I’ll hopefully be writing more insightful articles and making the site a bit more friendly in terms of viewing a particular type of content. If you have any suggestions, feel free to pass them along.

So there you have it. One year Anniversary. Okay now you can go look at the other link in the other post. It’s a sweet and uplifting one, which I think is appropriate for today.

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Identify Yourself

by on Jul.27, 2011, under Announcements, Gaming, Identify Yourself, Roleplaying Games, Website Update, Writing

Hi. My name is Nojh and welcome to The Singularity.

By day I am software developer, writer, aspiring author, and game designer. By night, I usually sleep. I have many interests and hobbies such as comics, video games, board games, books, movies, science, technology, philosophy, and many other things most people would consider geeky.

The Singularity

As I’ve stated on the about page, this blog is dedicated to collecting various things I find interesting on the web for your viewing pleasure. Hence the name, The Singularity, a place where things collect into one.

It is also a place for me to voice my opinions, reviews, and write articles about various topics from time to time. Comments are open to all and I want to encourage discussion. So please, tell me what you think. I know I haven’t been doing this nearly as much lately but stay tuned, I’ll get to it.

Other Stuff

Besides this blog I have a few other projects. I am attempting to write a novel, tentatively titled Everlasting. It is a zombie steampunk sci-fi fantasy adventure and I am chronicling its initial draft here.  I also organize a private writing group called Anomalous Writing that meets physically twice a week. You can follow the posts via the Everlasting tag or my thoughts or links about writing in general via the writing category.

Speaking of writing, I also write a regular article series called Science Future for Escape Pod. EscapePod is a podcast that buys and narrates short story science fiction for everybody’s listening pleasure. Science Future is written for their blog and is dedicated to discussing the scientific breakthroughs and their impact upon science fiction as well as the impact science fiction has had upon science. For more information about Science Future you can find the introduction article here. If you would like to follow Science Future you can do so by EscapePod’s Science Future tag, or The Singularity’s Science Future tag.

I am also one of the designers of the roleplaying game Vanished Lands produced by Ruminant Productions. Vanished Lands is a post-apocalyptic fantasy western RPG and is available purchase via Lulu.com. The supplement book, Vanished Lands: Storyteller Archive Vol. 1, is available at Amazon and other online retailers. Right now I am working with the other designers to release a rules system for future Vanished Lands releases.

Thank You

I want to thank you all for reading and giving me a reason to keep this blog running. Readership is actually something I am interested in keeping. I’ve been running this blog actively for nearly half a year now and the numbers, near as I can tell, are growing. So thank you for spending some of your time reading this blog and I hope you enjoy it. The only thing I ask of you is, from time to time, let me know what about the blog you do and do not like via commentary either here, or one of the sites that this blog repeats on.

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Identify Yourself

by on May.01, 2011, under Announcements, Gaming, Identify Yourself, Roleplaying Games, Website Update, Writing

Hi. My name is Nojh and welcome to The Singularity.

By day I am Software Developer, Writer, Aspiring Author, and Game Designer. By night, I usually sleep. I have many interests and hobbies such as comics, video games, board games, books, movies, science, technology, philosophy, and many other things most people would consider geeky.

The Singularity

As I’ve stated on the about page, this blog is dedicated to collecting various things I find interesting on the web for your viewing pleasure. Hence the name, The Singularity, a place where things collect into one.

It is also a place for me to voice my opinions, reviews, and write articles about various topics from time to time. Comments are open to all and I want to encourage discussion. So please, tell me what you think. I know I haven’t been doing this nearly as much lately but stay tuned, I’ll get to it.

I have made a concerted effort these days to improve the content and presentation of this blog and I think I have gotten it to a point that I am satisfied with. My plans for opening up The Library have stalled at the moment however due to lack of time and commitment. I do still plan on adding the missing contact page  so people can more regularly contact me directly, rather than leaving commentary on a blog. I am still somewhat dissatisfied with the layout and theme of this blog and will be making attempts to improve the readability of it. I’d welcome both advice and offers to help.

Other Stuff

Besides this blog I have a few other projects. I am attempting to write a novel, tentatively titled Everlasting. It is a zombie steampunk sci-fi fantasy adventure and I am chronicling its initial draft here.  I also organize a private writing group called Anomalous Writing that meets physically twice a week. You can follow the posts via the Everlasting tag or my thoughts about writing in general via the writing category.

I am also one of the designers of the roleplaying game Vanished Lands produced by Ruminant Productions. Vanished Lands is a post-apocalyptic fantasy western RPG and is available purchase via Lulu.com. The supplement book, Vanished Lands: Storyteller Archive Vol. 1, is available at Amazon and other online retailers. Right now I am working with the other designers to release a rules system for future Vanished Lands releases.

Thank You

I want to thank you all for reading and giving me a reason to keep this blog running. Readership, now that I have attained some, is actually something I am interested in keeping. I’ve been running this blog actively for fourth months now and the numbers, near as I can tell, are growing. So thank you for spending some of your time reading this blog and I hope you enjoy it. The only thing I ask of you is, from time to time, let me know what about the blog you do and do not like via commentary either here, or one of the sites that this blog repeats on.

 

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Identify Yourself

by on Mar.01, 2011, under Announcements, Identify Yourself, Library Updates, Website Update

Hi. My name is Nojh and welcome to The Singularity.

By day I am Software Developer, Writer, Aspiring Author, and Game Designer. By night, I usually sleep. I have many interests and hobbies such as comics, video games, board games, books, movies, science, technology, philosophy, and many other things most people would consider geeky.

The Singularity

As I’ve stated on the about page, this blog is dedicated to collecting various things I find interesting on the web for your viewing pleasure. Hence the name, The Singularity, a place where things collect into one.

It is also a place for me to voice my opinions, reviews, and write articles about various topics from time to time. Comments are open to all and I want to encourage discussion. So please, tell me what you think.

I am making a concerted effort these days to improve the content and presentation of this blog. I plan to open up The Library, which will be my collection of links and references to interesting things that have a lasting presence on the web, or perhaps even off it, that you should read. At some point I will add the contact page that is missing, so people can more regularly contact me directly, rather than leaving commentary on a blog. I’ve recently been growing somewhat dissatisfied with the layout and theme of this blog and will hopefully be making attempts to improve the readability of it. I’d welcome both advice and offers to help.

Other Stuff

Besides this blog I have a few other projects. I am attempting to write a novel, tentatively titled Everlasting. It is a zombie steampunk sci-fi fantasy adventure and I am chronicling its initial draft here.  I also organize a private writing group called Anomalous Writing that meets physically twice a week. You can follow the posts via the Everlasting tag or my thoughts about writing in general via the writing category.

I am also one of the designers of the roleplaying game Vanished Lands produced by Ruminant Productions. Vanished Lands is a post-apocalyptic fantasy western RPG and is available purchase via Lulu.com. The supplement book, Vanished Lands: Storyteller Archive Vol. 1, is available at Amazon and other online retailers. Right now I am working with the other designers to release a rules system for future Vanished Lands releases.

Thank You

I want to thank you all for reading and giving me a reason to keep this blog running. Readership, now that I have attained some, is actually something I am interested in keeping. I’ve been running this blog actively for fourth months now and the numbers, near as I can tell, are growing. So thank you for spending some of your time reading this blog and I hope you enjoy it.

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Announcement: Comic Links & Suggestions

by on Jan.11, 2011, under Announcements, Comic Links, Website Update

So I’m trying out a new format. Way back in the day when I started this habit of posting links to fun comics, I was on Live Journal, I my posts were highly detailed, almost cataloging, and all my friends complained about it. That was nearly ten years ago now and I am still somewhat bitter about it. But they did have a point, my posts were rather spammy.

But just posting links and small comments on a public blog like this seems… unprofessional? Tacky? Lazy? So I’m changing up the format a little. The following are going to be my rules for posting comic links & Suggestions.

Comic Links

Comic Link posts will contain links to individual comics which are entertaining on their own right and more than likely humorous.

  1. Comic Link posts will now start with the title “Comic Links:” followed by the titles of the comics linked to in the post.
  2. Comic Link posts will fall under the categories: Comics, Comic Links
  3. Comic Link posts will have the following tags: Name of the comics linked to, the humor tag if at least one of the thinks is humorous
  4. Links will have the comic name, comic title, and number/date as the display text, rather than just the URL
  5. Commentary will be required but still free form.

Comic Suggestions

Comic Suggestions are the other type of comic links, where I suggest an entire comic’s run rather than individual comics. I will also start using comic suggestions to link to a series of comics

  1. Comic Suggestion posts will now start with the title “Comic Suggestion:” followed by the titles of the comics linked to in the post.
  2. Comic Suggestion posts will fall under the categories: Comics, Comic Suggestions
  3. Comic Suggestion posts will have the following tags: Name of the comics linked to, the humor tag if at least one of the thinks is humorous
  4. Links will have the comic name, comic title, and number/date as the display text, rather than just the URL. If they are part of a series, they will be numbered by part as well.
  5. Commentary will be required but still free form.

What do people think?

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