Archive for July, 2009
D&D Words that will be on the GRE
Jul 28th
This photo was taken by SaikoFish.
If you’re studying for the Graduate Required Exam (the GRE) here in the USA and worrying about how you will ever remember the definitions to all these words, don’t fret. Because actually, if you’ve played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know more than you’d think. Words like quaff, axiomatic, scintillating, and eschew. Yeah, no kidding! Let’s take a look…
Meta Monday 2: Enlarging the Here and Now
Jul 27th
Photo by Olivier Bareau
“I don’t accept the judgement that in using images and metaphors of other worlds, space travel, the future, imagined technologies, societies, or beings, science fiction escapes from having human relevance to our lives… More >
Fiction Friday 1: Abby Short for Abigail
Jul 22nd
photo by Sarah Mae.
The following is a short excerpt from Keith R. Potempa’s literary fiction novel-in-progress Goby and the Shrimp.