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A New Writing Experiment
Creating a new fantasy story.
In 2022, Top Gun: Maverick was an exceptionally good movie to me, and many of the film critics whom I respect seemed to agree. Unfortunately, it was also a good movie in a sea of disappointments, which is another thing many people seem to agree on.
I am not politically conservative and I believe inclusive – or “woke” – movies can be good if written properly. Ripley in the first two Alien movies…
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The Eyeball Conundrum (Codex Vagus: essay 12)
Collecting eyeballs via online drama is a self-destructive strategy for a social media platform.
As we watch the unfolding (or rather, the unravelling) of the will-he-or-won’t-he dramedy of Elon Musk’s bid to buyout Twitter, we are becoming increasingly aware that the platform has deeper unresolved issues than a billionaire takeover. The number of active Twitter users have been at a standstill for the past few years and there is no sign that the Twitter user-base will have any substantial…
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Curators and Why We Need Them (Codex Vagus: essay 11)
Curators and Why We Need Them (Codex Vagus: essay 11)
The personal computer revolution gave birth to fairytale success stories like Microsoft and Apple Computers. Twenty years later, the Internet produced massive successes like Amazon, Facebook, and Google. And then there were the numerous smaller successes like millionaire YouTubers, drop-shippers, and Shopify entrepreneurs. Personal computers and the internet opened new opportunities to numerous…
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The American Way of Denial - or How to Conquer the World (Codex Vagus: essay 10)
The American Way of Denial – or How to Conquer the World (Codex Vagus: essay 10)
Someone working in the Supreme Court of the United States leaked a draft of an opinion statement which said that Roe v Wade was about to be overturned and the whole of Liberal America was shocked and instantly outraged. Somehow, a large segment of the American population – it appears – did not see this coming. This has been creeping threat for more than four decades. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was…
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The Short Lifecycle of Progressivism (Codex Vagus: essay 09)
Hero today, pariah tomorrow. All liberal ideas will eventually be considered stale, cringy, or outright offensive.
I am a 58-year-old cis gendered heterosexual man living in rural Japan and it took until today, April 13th, 2022, two weeks shy of my 59th birthday, to ever even hear of Uncle Remus and learn what it means. Uncle Remus is a fictional character in American literature created by Joel Chandler Harris, a white journalist, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Uncle Remus is an African American…
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The Value of Truth (Codex Vagus: essay 08)
Truth is not an abstract concept. Open dialogue is not a formality. Free speech is the lifeline of a stable and prosperous society. #freespeech
Teachers and professors around the world attest that their best students tend to be Asians, and a healthy portions of them are of Chinese extraction. In fact, Asians, and Chinese in particular, are deemed model immigrants in many parts of the world. The first generation may come as manual laborers, but by the third generation they become business owners, professors, doctors, lawyers, and high…
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The Mass Extinction of Accumulated Wealth (Codex Vagus: essay 07)
Taxing the rich is a form of controlled demolition to avert mass wealth extinction. #taxation #economy
I started writing Codex Vagus because I was wasting time mulling over the same thoughts in my head and I needed to let them out in some form. Some of these thoughts are still poorly conceived and I need to see them written down to realize how messy they are. But it is better to put them out than to keep them closed in. As I age, my mind has increasingly limited space for random thoughts.
Codex…
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The Jodoverse of Electric Vehicles and the Genius of Elon Musk (Codex Vagus: essay 06)
Every great man is selectively blind. Great men are seldom great for you. Never trust a great man.
#Tesla #ElonMusk
There are many concepts that we are aware of and do not have a word for. Giving the concept a name can change our world. A good example is “sexual harassment”. The phenomenon is as old as humanity but the phrase was only coined in the 1980’s. Giving the behavior a name – though insufficiently as of yet – has changed the world for the better.
We need a name for “a project that ends in failure but…
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A Movie Theater NFT (Codex Vagus: essay 05)
If we can attach a paywall and make a pay-per-view-NFT, any video creator can in theory create their own Netflix-like platform.
#NFT #cryptocurrency #investment #video
A codex is a sort of volume that existed historically between a book and a scroll. The long sheets of leather used in scrolls were costly and difficult to prepare while smaller pages were easier to manufacture. It took a greater commitment to start work on a scroll. The individual pages could later be collected and bound if the end product merited it. Although a codex can be made of any material,…
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Synthetic Fuel Panels (Codex Vagus: essay 04)
A self-contained modularised microfluidic reactor and solar cell combination that produces synthetic gasoline from air, water, and sunlight is what the world desperately needs right now.
#cleanenergy #syntheticfuel #climatechange #future
When I was 12 years old, I learned that coffee shops, which at the time served coffee for 500 yen a cup, were less profitable than ramen shops, which at the time served hot bowls of fresh ramen for the same price. This was because people expected more comfortable furniture, better dishware, more leg room, and overall better atmosphere in coffee shops. It was added that you couldn’t light the room…
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The Base Delta Principle (Codex Vagus: essay 03)
Someone clever enough to work out all the engineering hurdles of this proposal may become a billionaire some day. #cryptocurrency #connectivity
Some time in 1997, I was unemployed and bored, and in between translation gigs which I conducted via email (which was relatively new thing in those days) I was frustrated with the low speed of the dial-up modem connection I had in my provincial location. Over the course of three days, I composed and posted a proposal on how connection speed could be improved. The essay eventually made its way to…
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The Sinister Future of Cryptocurrency (Codex Vagus: essay 02)
The Sinister Future of Cryptocurrency (Codex Vagus: essay 02)
Codex Vagus is the title I gave to essays unrelated to creative writing topics on this blog.
I have always found it very difficult to gauge whether I am being original or just being stupid. For what it is worth, I predicted movie streaming services like Netflix back in the ’80s when video rentals like Blockbuster were the new thing. I also predicted Twitter back when cell phones were huge and…
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The Two Sides of the Metaverse (Codex Vagus: essay 01)
The Two Sides of the Metaverse (Codex Vagus: essay 01)
My father used to tell me that it was a mistake to think that anything I thought with my feeble mind was in any way original. Somebody else would no doubt have thought of the same thing first and done it better. Therefore it was a better idea to go to the library and search for ideas rather than to try to think of something myself. This self-denying forced humility was drilled into me so hard…
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Justice and Retribution
There is a theory that the Edict of Milan, which legalized Christianity in Ancient Rome, was not an act of great wisdom or enlightened clemency, but an act born out of necessity when the Emperor Constantine was forced to bring law up to speed with reality. Christianity was already so prevalent it was no longer practical to persecute the rapidly growing population of Christians in the Roman…
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The Cultural Background of "Attack on Titan"
The Cultural Background of “Attack on Titan”
I tried to stay away from political topics on this blog and tried to focus on the topic of writing. But I make an exception here because it ties in with all the things I have written in the past about writing across cultures. I have said that writing in English as a second language is hard to do. I have said that words that conjure certain imagery to one person can project a different image to…
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Dialogue Challenge
In same vein as the previous post, I once posted a challenge. “Propose a dialogue.(A blank between a blank and a blank about blank)” I got some unique prompts.Try to think how you would construct a dialogue from these prompts before reading my responses.
The first one posted was “A conversation between a dolphin and a junky about the fate of humanity.” But the poster’s connection was glitchy and…
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How To Write the Opening Line
How To Write the Opening Line
I guess I was bored in June 2020, and I posted a challenge in the Writing Fiction group on Facebook. The Challenge was “Post the genre, protagonist, and the objective of the story (ex: A dystopian sci-fi in which a young female mercenary must travel a hostile terrain to deliver a trailer load of water) and I will try to post the opening sentence or sentences to the story”.
The first fellow to…
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