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Steve Cavers (AKA, "Cubey Terra") is a software tech writer and metaverse content developer living in Vancouver, BC.
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- Always annoyed when I d-click a word to select it, and the editor selects the word plus the trailing space. That's not helpful. | 2 minutes ago
- Playing Twitter spambot whack-a-mole today. Usernames seem to be consistently <name>X<number>. #spam | 35 minutes ago
- Sipping last drops of my caffeine fix from @panefromheaven mmm | 1 hour ago
- For some reason the contractors are Irish, and one tends to sing Irish ballads. #stereotypes | 2 hours ago
- It's mental in here. Painters, electricians still working, most outlets don't work, hammering. Keep typing! No excuses! #renos | 2 hours ago
- Off to the office, where this tech writer will be gainfully employed in the moving of furniture, boxes, and various post-reno detritus. | 5 hours ago
- Fuck you, Monday. | 5 hours ago
- I think I'm doing it wrong. http://t.co/3es84oxU | 1 day ago
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Category Archives: Writing
Northern Voice 2011: Why am I going?
Months ago, I signed up for a conference that I knew nothing about for reasons that weren’t actually clear to me at the time. It was, admittedly, kind of an impulse buy. I’d heard of Northern Voice, I knew it … Continue reading
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Get my Cubicle Dweller books for nuthin’
As everyone knows, I’m a very famous* author of all kinds** of books. Until today, my writing was only available at my Cafe Press store or Amazon.com and only in ridiculously obsolete paper. For those of you wanting to read … Continue reading
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Escape from Abbotts Aerodrome
I have decided not to finish this year’s attempt at a NaNoWriMo story. It’s now day ten of thirty, and I haven’t made any more progress. So instead, here’s the opening to the story. Yes, the character is named Cubey … Continue reading
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The Oldbie
They found his avatar standing motionless next to a pile of prims, slumped at the shoulders like a marionette whose strings had been cut. T1g3r bumped Daisy45 to get her attention, “Hey Daze, take a look at this guy.” Daisy45 … Continue reading
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Bad Poetry of Second Life, Part 5
Honestly, I didn’t think this through completely when I started posting the old “Bad Poetry” entries. Whatever readership that I had previously has now been driven away — if not completely incapacitated by vile verse and dreadful doggerel. This is, of … Continue reading
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Bad Poetry of Second Life, Part 4
The date today is, of course, 10/10/10 (alternatively, it’s 10/10/10 if you use European format). To nerds all over the planet, it’s obvious that 101010 is binary for the number 42, which is the answer to the ultimate question of … Continue reading
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Bad Poetry of Second Life, Part 3
Welcome to PAIN. Muahahaha! This, of course, is part three of a too-many-part series of actual stinky poetry written by Second Lifers (see part 1 and part 2). Back in late 2003 and early 2004, I hosted several poetry contests. … Continue reading
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Bad Poetry of Second Life, Part 2
As I mentioned in my previous post, in late 2003 and early 2004, I hosted a series of poetry contests in Second Life. The challenge: to write the absolute worst poem possible in fifteen minutes, while incorporating eight randomly-chosen words. … Continue reading
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Bad Poetry of Second Life, Part 1
In late 2003 and early 2004, I hosted a series of poetry contests in Second Life. The challenge: to write the absolute worst poem possible in fifteen minutes, while incorporating eight randomly-chosen words. The virtual poets rose to the challenge, … Continue reading
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Schrodinger’s printer problem
Like many cubicle dwellers, when Friday afternoon rolls around, my mind begins to wander a little, and tasks like attaching the correct cover sheet to the TPS report become unreasonably tedious and just really, really… uh… adjective. I couldn’t concentrate … Continue reading
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