Disney World as a Right of Passage: Raising Better Children While Hating Everyone in Line Around You

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in January 2nd, 2009

Posted in: How To Think, Personal Tags: Disney World, parenting, vacation

Legend has it that Charles Bukowski hated Mickey Mouse more than anything and thought it was blasphemy of the highest order that somehow a soulless celluloid corporate intruder started passing itself off as the source and effect of creativity and dreams. Maybe he thought children finally bought off on the finger instead of the moon [...]

Understanding Abney’s Effect in the Creation of Fiction

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in December 26th, 2008

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Posted in: How To Think Tags: abney's effect, Creative Writing, creativity, fiction, literary

The [psychological and biological] phenomenon whereby when a large area is suddenly illuminated, the light seems to appear first in the center of the patch (rather than appearing all at once) and then spreads outwards towards the edges. When the light is extinguished, the edges disappear first and the center last.
–Dictionary of Theories page 2–
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Help, Facebook Is Killing My Blog! How I Survived Social Networking and Make It Work for Me

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in December 14th, 2008

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Posted in: Blogcasts and Blogs, Personal Tags: Blog, Facebook, fiction, LinkedIn, Malcolm Gladwell, Social Networking, The 150 Rule, Twitter, Web 2.0, writing

But I can’t claim artistic integrity and career fretting as the primary reasons for my lack of publishment on this site famous only to myself and a few brilliant others. A new mistress has moved into my writing boudoir–Facebook. I currently have 187 friends which are actually people I know and spending less than 30 minutes a day, I can keep up with all of them.

Boys Wear Pants Is Taking a Remodeling Vacation

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in October 21st, 2007

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I’m going to be moving hosting platforms (still staying with Wordpress though) over the next week or so so I could be offline for awhile. Hang tight and I’ll be back as soon as possible.
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