Strategic employment of the writing tool does not just mean intelligently selecting what is written down, although that might be the most important consideration. It also encompasses the format in which the information is captured, the organization of that information, the medium in which the information is stored, and even the location of the information storage.
Some Background on RSGS
This essay will address the notable payload technologies involved in RSGS, but it will mostly focus on its twin robotic arms, the NRL-developed FREND Mk IIs.
Designs and Means
Sometimes a notion gets lodged in my brain which I just can’t shake, for something that seems like it should be easy, obvious, such that a solution should already exist…but I can’t seem to find one that does just what I’m looking to do.
Poetry Practice, Exercise 5
Here, we're tasked with two quatrains of 8-syllable iambic tetrameter, two quatrains alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, and two quatrains featuring trochaic tetrameter (one quatrain with pure trochee, and one with docked weak endings on lines 2 and 4).
From Scratch
When it comes to starting most projects from scratch, though, it’s a bit more complicated than setting down the starting line for a race.
Forewords and Afterwords
By presenting these materials first, before the reader engages with the story on the story’s own terms, and not those provided by the foreword, the reader’s entire experience with and expectations of the story are distorted.
Poetry Practice, Exercise 4
This fourth exercise calls for 16 unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. They should use pyrrhic and trochaic substitutions, weak endings, and enjambments.
Announcing: Weekly Science and Technology Newsletter
I am announcing a weekly update post/newsletter, primarily focused on science and technology, but with flexibility for me to include other content if I come across something interesting.
Counting Languages
Far from being a modern phenomenon, the declining diversity of language owes more to broad, civilizational factors, like the onset of agriculture and settlement of large city-states, than it does to the dominance of English in the current international system.
Poetry Practice, Exercise 3
This exercise has two parts: five pairs of unrhymed iambic pentameter, with the first line being end-stopped and without caesuras, and another five pairs with enjambment and caesuras.
