Ellie Coral's online workbench… mind the mess.
Two updates in two days? What madness is this? Perfectly productive madness, as completing grad school and regaining free time has imbued me with the power to finish what I’ve started. Once I’ve discovered the secret to non-caffeinated energy, I’ll be damn near unstoppable. One of my tasks was turning Sporeshelf into a static website.…
Like many Americans, I picked up the national pastime of accumulating possessions to the point where they’re causing me undue stress. To compound the problem, I made the decision years ago to rent a storage unit. The original idea was to remove certain possessions from my sight, hoping that the distance would weaken my attachment…
Or “Ellie Doesn’t Quite Dip Back in the Fandom Pool, But She Gets Her Toes Damp” Part of the challenge of not having a job outside the house is that you have to keep yourself occupied, or you’ll end up wandering off to clean something or staring into the void and pondering every life decision…
As a revived fan of Patrick F. McManus, I’m trying to make up for lost time by reacquainting myself with this works, like Whatchagot Stew: A Memoir of an Idaho Childhood, with Recipes and Commentaries, a (mostly) nonfiction volume he wrote with his sister, Patricia McManus Gass (real OGs know her as The Troll). You…
It’s been a while, Seeker. I didn’t forget you, but I had a very good reason for not giving you any guidance recently: it was time for you to take action. I know you’re the type to look at a situation from every angle possible, but it was getting to the point where you were…
Many, many years ago, I came across gorgeous animated GIFs and the website they were inspired by: Canvas Cycle: True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5. (Sound warning: may be loud!) For years, I wondered how this internet magic was done, but viewing the source of the HTML provided no solution. I couldn’t make heads or…
I’m starting to think that the little tasks I’ve been giving myself this past week are excuses to not touch the dead simple coursework I have remaining for my final semester. But that doesn’t mean this little opinion piece I wrote for my research blog wasn’t worthwhile: Citing on the Fly. Now I should really get…
I miss creating random posts where I share the odd jumble of things I’ve come across. So I’ll do that in this one. Life Lessons Everyone Learns Too Late But Wish They Knew Earlier (YouTube) These videos have been popping up in my feed lately, and some of them are actually pretty useful. After six…
Now you get to have a taste of my personal research track throughout grad school. This was one of the articles I used for reference in an early assignment, and it’s one of the few that managed to stay on my mind—and in my heart—ever since: The Fading of the Elves: Techno-Volunteerism and the Disappearance…
In an effort to get into the habit of updating on projects, here is a screenshot with no context. Maybe this project will be better received than a short story.