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Margaret MacLennan

ZORK — You are Likely to be Triggered by a Grue

ZORK — You are Likely to be Triggered by a Grue

You are sitting in front of your Tumblr dashboard. It contains a pitch black and patriarchy white screengrab from text-based adventure game released in 1977. You are likely to be triggered by a grue. >What is a grue A grue is an oppressive, lurking white male in...

Windows 9 Abandoned in Shallow Grave

Check out this Google Trends chart. It goes from the initial announcement of Windows 8 in September 2011 to the current month, January 2015 and shows the history of searches for "Windows 9" and "Windows 10". [thumbnail...

What to Pack when Travelling with an Ostomy

In the year or so since having an ileostomy, I have taken several flights on different airliners for overnight trips and weeks-long vacations. Of my three trips, one was a weekend federal political convention, one was an overnighter to Ostomy Canada's July 2014...

TLC’s “Too Ugly for Love?” Naming Controversy

"This observational documentary series follows 10 unique singletons, ordinary people living with extraordinary medical conditions, on their quest to find love." - Press release for TLC's Too Ugly For Love? Let my collect my eyeballs off the floor 'cause they just...

Are we 5G yet?

What does the telegraph have to do with your next mobile phone? What will be different about the way we communicate in five years? As communication technology advances, more people from even the most remote parts of the world will have access to the integrated global...

LA Burnout

"Are you a celebrity?" The first time I visited LA I didn't wear sunscreen and walked from Griffith Park to my sister's place in Los Feliz. I was bright red when her husband took us out for Korean that evening. We each received a bowl of seaweed soup on arrival and my...

The Weirdest Al

The Weirdest Al

2014: the Year of Weird Al "Weird Al" Yankovic first entered my life when he started "taking over" Canada's answer to MTV, MuchMusic. Music television used to be blocks of music as set by genre. You'd have the rap block, the French language block, the alternative...

Nobility the Series at Comikaze 2014

Nobility the Series at Comikaze 2014

Caotica attended, asked questions and recorded audio at the Nobility panel at Comikaze in Los Angeles on November 1st, 2014. Transcribed below is part one of two, containing panelist answers to the moderator about the series, their characters and their love of scifi....

EmmaLee Accessories at Comikaze 2014

EmmaLee Accessories at Comikaze 2014

Margaret attended Comikaze 2014 in Los Angeles and stopped in her tracks when she found the EmmaLee Accessories booth and popped in to ask the vendor some questions. Caotica: Are you Emma Lee? EmmaLee Accessories: No, I'm Melanie. Emma is a former owner's niece, and...