SF Author James S. Aaron

SF Author James S. Aaron

Author of Aeon 14: Sentience Wars and Galactic Law

  • Life
  • Books
  • Audiobooks
  • Mastodon
  • About
  • The Royal Vista PDA

    Just saving an interesting early PDA I found on ebay. #retrotech, #handheld, #cyberdeck

    James Aaron

    December 28, 2024
    Notes
  • What is a heterotopia?

    These posts led to the question:

    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425770
    • https://mascontext.com/issues/trace/kowloon-walled-city-heterotopia-in-a-space-of-disappearance
    • https://cohost.org/belarius/post/6677850-architectural-cross
    • https://amzn.to/3BHmjqa
    Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of… | MAS Context (12_20_2024 8:10:50 AM)Download
    cohost! – "Architectural Cross-Section of Kowloon Walled City" (12_20_2024 8:11:22 AM)Download

    A heterotopia is a concept introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault to describe real-world places that function as “other spaces,” existing simultaneously within and outside of the usual norms and structures of society. These spaces are characterized by their ability to juxtapose or connect several different spaces, times, or meanings, creating a unique environment that challenges or reflects on the dominant social order.

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    James Aaron

    December 20, 2024
    Notes
  • Software

    Photo by Anton Savinov on Unsplash

    A list of the software and websites I use to accomplish various projects:

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    James Aaron

    December 19, 2024
    Projects
  • Video

    One of my goals going forward is to take more video of our lives.
    When I spent a whole days going through photo books from my mom’s flooded house, I was surprised to see how much the photos shifted in quality. The older photos were actually better. Brownie photos from the fifties and sixties had better color with sharper focus. The seventies were generally out of focus and sepia-brown. This might have been a byproduct of the cellophane photo books my mom used, but the clarity of the pre-seventies never returned.

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    James Aaron

    December 14, 2024
    Projects
  • Project Posts

    All these weird posts showing up in the feed are part of a project I’m working on to organize all my various projects into a single part of the site. It’s also incorporating updates to Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads. I would include Facebook but it’s not as easy to auto-post to a personal Facebook page and I haven’t had time to set that up.

    For now, I’m focused on actually making the parts of the site, not futzing with automations that may or may not work. I want to make it relatively easy to capture this stuff in one place, and I’m doing it on the website since I can keep it all in one place, and update it from anywhere.

    This is tied to the whole process of organizing my mom’s stuff this year, and beyond that, my stuff, but that’s going to be explained in a later post once I have it figured out for myself.

    A big part of this was spending 8 hours one Sunday emptying family photo books to make the photos easier to scan and store… only to wonder who would ultimately care and what was the point. I do think there’s a point, but it’s easier to find when things are organized.

    Thanks for humoring me as I figure this stuff out. It will relate to my other work, I promise.

    James Aaron

    December 14, 2024
    Updates
  • Health

    A placeholder page to track weight loss and exercise. Going to write more about this in the future.

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    James Aaron

    December 14, 2024
    Projects
  • Workflows

    I realized recently that I spend a lot of time futzing with gadgets and making aspirational purchases with the idea that I’m going to get to something in the future. My gadget inventory is proof that I probably also enjoy owning retro tech that was out of reach in the past.

    Still, I would like to make things, not collect things. As I look at paring down the stuff I have, I want to link the remaining stuff to some sort of desired outcome, i.e. I want to finish more novels and short stories, and I want to take more photos and make more videos.

    So I’ve been thinking of all this in terms of workflows. What gear, time and process lead me to accomplish my goals?

    First I’ll list the workflows I’m thinking of, and then I’ll build them out so the stuff I have is accomplishing a purpose and not just taking up storage.

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    James Aaron

    December 13, 2024
    Projects
    aspirational
  • Reading

    Tracking my recent reading/listening (post 2020), most recent first

    How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) – Jessica McCabe


    This Inevitable Ruin – Matt Dinniman

    The Eye of the Bedlam Bride – Matt Dinniman

    The Butcher’s Masquerade – Matt Dinniman

    The Gate of the Feral Gods – Matt Dinniman

    The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook – Matt Dinniman

    Carl’s Doomsday Scenario – Matt Dinniman

    Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman

    Seeds of Gaia – Rick Partlow

    Someone You Can Build a Nest In – John Wiswell

    The Devils – Joe Abercrombie

    The Evolutionary Void – Peter F. Hamilton

    The Temporal Voice – Peter F. Hamilton

    The Dreaming Voice – Peter F. Hamilton

    Judas Unchained – Peter F. Hamilton

    Pandora’s Star – Peter F. Hamilton

    Photo by Margarida Afonso on Unsplash

    Steel on Target (The Buzzer War Book 1) – Kevin Ikenberry

    The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy – Ursula K. Le Guin

    Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu

    Stranded (Starship of the Ancients Book 1): – A.K. DuBoff

    Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World – Naomi Klein

    Orders of Magnitude – Yuval Kordov

    The Extinction of Experience – Christine Rosen

    Low Tech Life: A Guide to Mindful Digital Minimalism – Jose Briones

    Days of Atonement – Walter Jon Williams

    Syrup – Max Barry

    Dragon’s Egg – Robert L. Forward

    The Last Town – Blake Crouch

    Wayward – Blake Crouch

    Pines – Blake Crouch

    Hidden Potential – Adam Grant

    Eat, and Love Yourself – Sweeney Boo

    Hardwired – Walter John Williams

    Atomic Habits – James Clear

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    James Aaron

    December 12, 2024
    Projects
  • Green House and Garden

    A placeholder to track work on the Green House and annual garden.

    James Aaron

    December 12, 2024
    Projects
  • Mom’s Cottage

    From March to May of 2024, I built my mom a cottage with bathroom in our backyard, added a patio, and still need to finish the detail work. This page documents the project.

    James Aaron

    December 12, 2024
    Projects
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