Category: Personal

Stage 4.

Where do you put the words you don’t have anyone left to tell?

Sometimes they squeeze out, like feelings from your eyes.

But they feel like they splash uselessly on the floor.

The thought of empty spaces where recognition? used to be.

Understanding?

Acceptance?

Trust?

Apparently we vomit them into the voids of the never-ending interweb nightmare.

Library

In an effort to keep a list of the books I read and recommend, here we are…
This will be in a general reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent first. Some are from the library, some are in my personal library. My wonderful Mom has given me several over the years as we both learn the things we were never taught.

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Podcast List

I’ve been into podcasts for a _very_ long time, and regularly get asked for my recommendations. So rather than try and recreate this list for everyone who asks, I’ll just point them here! This list is in alphabetical order, and some of the entries aren’t current anymore. Some are dead but you can still get past episodes.

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2019 Holiday 2020 New Years Cheer!

With the dawning of this New Christian Year 2020 as marked by the recent Gregorian/Italian New Year, as well as the various Holidays that have passed/are still happening/are coming soon, I hope you all are doing fantastic! Much joy and cheer to you!

Nothing much of an update really, things are plugging along at 4Crows and MakerCave, the steps on some days are bigger than others, but most days lately have been forward!

I’m trying out some jewellery on the 3D Printers today, just to see how it turns out and stuff like that. One is a Cosplay toy, which is also kinda fun. Pictures when they’re done added.

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Thinking about land

I’ve been doing a lot of learning lately.

I think it started in earnest with Red Man Laughing. Which is rather sad really, since I’ve been surrounded by non-white voices since university. But Ryan’s show is the first one I can remember sitting with me, the stories. And how much similarity there was in some of the shittier aspects. How much colonization had just completely fucked everything up for, well, everyone.

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Fruit [and some vegetables]

What’s with the fruit?

The fruit represents my nickname, Scurvy. Many years ago, I was in a summer camp in the town that I grew up in, one of those that’s supposed to keep us kids out of trouble. I was given this nickname by a guy named Sean Palmer (name not changed, to expose the guilty). It’s probably based on my last name (Scriven, remember.), but he’s never really told me why he named me after a disease. At the time, and for many years afterwards I actually didn’t like him, for that one reason, but since I started to train with him, when I was about 16 or so, I’ve realised that he’s a cool guy.

BUT, enough about That… Now that I have the nickname I’ve taken a liking to it. Scurvy is, as you know, the disease that comes from a lack of Vitamin C in your diet. The sailors used to get it a lot crossing the oceans without fresh fruit.

This page is dedicated to all the fruit and veggies that give you large amounts of Vitamin C, and thus combat Scurvy. It doesn’t, however, get rid of me.

2014 WordPress Update: I’ve realised just how old this page is, I had collected the various images here because there weren’t many available online… in 1996ish when this page first started. I’ll keep this images for historical reasons, but if you really want more pictures follow the links!

2019 WordPress Update: Old yanked pictures were lost in a move, so I’ve re-captured them. Added some new ones of new fruits and vegetables too.

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AdamSpeak

[Recovered from pages past via The Internet Archives and moved here for completion and posterity…]

From Adrian MacNair [when we worked together at Martinet] (apparently he thinks I swear alot).

Adam Scriven’s vocabularyTranslation
No fucking way!I’m not sure that is feasible.
You’ve got to be shitting me!Really?
Tell someone who gives a fuck!Perhaps you should check with someone else.
It’s not my fucking problem.I wasn’t involved in this project at the beginning.
What the fuck?Interesting.
Fuck it… it won’t work.I’m not sure I can implement this.
Why in the fuck didn’t you tell me sooner?I’ll try to work that into my schedule.
When the fuck did you expect me to do this?I’m not working late.
Who in the fuck cares?Are you sure it’s a problem?
Fuck him, he has his head up his ass!He’s not familiar with this situation.
Who died and made you boss asshole?I’m not helping.
He can fucking blow me!I understand, but I don’t really care.
Fuck you.I don’t understand, AND I don’t really care.

The Saga of Scurvy’s .Sig

[Originally posted in 1996ish, on http://www.lore.com/~scriven/, recovered here from the Wayback Machine.]

A friend of mine, Scott Tadman has always hated my .sig files, and this newest one: 

                 URL = http://www.lore.com/~scriven/
*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+

has caused him no end of grief and heartache.
He has decided to fight back, to try and get me to fix/change the .sig to something more acceptable and appealing, and so the saga begins…

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