Denver Comic Con 2017 Day 2 Finally Some Philosophy! Any panel that starts with singing is off to a great start. On my conclusive article (at least for this weekend! I may end up doing some follow ups later. No promises!), I discuss the panel entitled “Is Science Fiction and […]
Denver Comic Con 2017 Day 1 Beards will be Stroked! It must be one hell of a convention to drag my ponderous butt from the pipe-smoke filled, whisky-soaked isolation I’ve been in. And so far, it may just be so! Digits, Beards, Stroking. (That is not my new deconstructed title, […]
Pardon Our Dust There are always things happeneing here at Aeither.Net and we wanted to take a moment to go over some of that stuff! Stuff, it is-a-Changing It always saddnes us when people can no longer write for our site but with life comes change. Sometimes that change does not […]
As we hurtle from post-election ennui/consternation/rage/gloating/inebriation into the inebriation/gloating/rage/consternation/ennui of the holiday season and the host of traditions that come with it. This seems like a good time to talk about Traditions. Of course, we have the traditional meals with all the gathering and family and arguments, etc., but we have […]
As we’ve just finished up a political season, it seems like a good time to look at another topic that’s at least tangentially related to that “delightful” time. In particular, the underlying divisiveness of the conversation and how our perspective and bias led to a complete lack of understanding between […]
Money and Power and Money and Power and Money… In case it’s not abundantly clear, I like to write about efficacy a lot (that and motivation. We’re allowed to have obsessions, aren’t we?). I’ve considered several aspects of effecting some sort of change in the world around us (be it […]
Fun pt 2, Can’t Spell Overanalyzing without- In my earlier article on fun, I admitted that I couldn’t figure out why some subset of games were fun. As I’ve had some time to reflect on it and consider the myriad of other games I’ve been addicted to in the intervening […]
Pokemon Go Ahead And Charge My Card Amid all the talk of Pokemon Go lately, it seems obvious that I should find some sort of topic so I can latch onto the coattails of the phenomenon. While I already discussed the notion of teams and tribes last time (which definitely is […]
Tribalism and Team Games Tribalism is an underlying concept that’s arguably intrinsic to the human condition. It’s evident in every culture, every society, every continent. The concept of delineating an “us” versus a “them” exists in every group of people across the globe. At first glance, this may seem to […]
Dalliances to Obsession, the continuum of pastimes Dalliances, hobbies, obsessions and passion. Which are you following now? We all have interest in our lives in varying degrees. There’s things we’re somewhat interested in, where we maintain a passing familiarity. There’s things we’re keen on, where we go out of our […]
