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Celebrating Four Years of Failing at Tumblr

January 13, 2014 By Dan Finnen

I am an old man on Tumblr. I’ve seen kingdoms rise and fall, hipsters explained, memes analyzed, photo blogs rise, photo blogs fall. Most of the people I followed even two years ago are long gone. My friends that got me on the platform originally departed for greener pastures years ago. Yet I remain. Four […]

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Filed Under: Misc, Photography, Writing Tagged With: fail, late night thoughts, social media, the internet, tumblr

Celtx, why have ye abandoned us?

December 3, 2013 By Dan Finnen

After several decades of increasingly high-powered computational devices, it seems like word processing software is something we should be able to take for granted by now. Writing on a computer has been a thing since the days of hybrid computer/typewriters. You’d think we have this stuff down by now. And for the most part we […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: celtx, computers, final draft, screenwriting, software, text

New Short Play: Santa Shock

November 25, 2013 By Dan Finnen

For those of you unfamiliar with these here parts, I regularly put up short plays and scripts on my other site Dungheap.net for people to use for free. The Dungheap is a rather eclectic collection of the floatsam that occurs when I’m just writing for the sake of writing or to recharge my batteries between […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Christmas, dungheap, dungheap.net, play, Santa Shock, script

I’m in love with a mechanical keyboard

November 18, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Maximum PC magazine is dangerous. To paraphrase Calvin and Hobbes, I saw a bunch of products in a magazine that I didn’t know existed, but now desperately need. That need for me was mechanical computer keyboards. A luxury product if there ever was one, mechanical keyboards use switches rather than the smooshy membrane things that […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: computer gear, cooler master, impulse buy, mechanical keyboard, nerd stuff, pc building

Last night I saw ‘Trevor’ and remembered that I actually like theater

October 25, 2013 By Dan Finnen

With any form of art, it’s easy to get burned out by a stream of mediocrity. My former roommate and I had been on a mission to watch theater every week, and we went on a solid five week streak of shows that we could barely sit though. It was enough to make us question […]

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Filed Under: Theater, Writing Tagged With: a red orchid theatre, monkeys, trevor

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