Occupy Wall Street. Anonymous. LulzSec. Millenials. These are words that are bandied about by a media that scarcely understands them. I’m sure you’ve heard things from both sides of the street at this point. That they’re simultaneously our generation’s freedom fighters and a bunch of spoiled hipsters. That they are the most idealistic and the [...]
The Narrative Problem
As long as I can remember, I’ve told stories. I don’t remember if my first lie was one that I told myself in order to turn my back yard into a forgotten realm of magic and wonder, or if it was one I told my mother to turn a broken lamp into my brother’s problem. [...]
Symptoms != Disease
Right now, something I’ve been hearing in the news a great deal is this debate about whether the government mandate for health insurance is consitutional under the commerce clause, which states (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3): [The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with [...]
The New Culture of Spam
I realize I’m not the first one to talk about this, (see Cory Doctorow’s thoughts on the subject), but the nature of the internet and spam have changed over the years. It used to be that you protected your e-mail address as though it were the most secretive information in the universe, next to the [...]
Honesty
So my resolution this New Year was perhaps a bit too broad. I had basically three different parts of my life I wanted to improve: my health, my career, and my creativity. All of these I found to be in some ways expressions of who I am, who I was, and who I want to [...]
Breathe
Shards of ice cling to each breath of air, scathing and shimmering as they enter his nose. He sneezes, shaking his head and staggering his steps for a moment to avoid the urge to breathe deeply in from his mouth. Narrowly avoiding a curb, he regains his stride and begins to count again. Left, two [...]
New Site!
I’ve been trying to do this for the last few months, and finally saw enough inspiration to convince me to go ahead with the process of updating my blog template and moving back to a fairly standard wordpress install. Why? The issue I’ve found myself combating for the last few months is that I haven’t [...]
LOTRO Music – .abc or not tobc
I recently started playing Lord of the Rings Online again, and I’ve had a good time re-learning how the in-game music system works. I tried to write a pretty in-depth view of this as a developer and a gamer, but the musician in me won’t shut up.
Revelation in Narrative
Scintillating starlight gleamed between the wisps of misty cloud. The symphony of cricket drones beat a counterpoint to the chattering of oak leaves in the late night breeze. Shafts of cold clear light from Luclin’s lunar surface snaked across the surface of the lake below, and the earth was still. So still that Naethan knelt [...]
Life Through an Aperture
Perhaps the title of this post is not quite as descriptive or logical as I would hope, but I’m realizing now that every stage of life requires you to view the world through a specific set of limitations. When you’re a little kid, you see world through the back seat. I have memories of landscapes [...]
Nathan St. Pierre is a digital-age renaissance man (or jack-of-all-trades, depending on your take on specialization). He writes articles on topics like music, writing, and web development. He is available to work, write, or speak regarding any of these.
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