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New Today On Blinkingline Journal

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

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– Neil Gaiman

New Year, New Words

About 2 months ago, I started thinking about a reboot of my website, the blinkingline journal. I’ve owned that domain for so many years I can’t even remember.  It started as a repository for an email journal of “experimental fiction” (for lack of a better term) that I worked on in college.  Once I left college, the guys who worked on it sort of lost interest, but I had all the original information and thought it might be neat to have it on the web.
After awhile, I got bored with it, and scrapped it and had an actual blog for a while, but I felt like I wasn’t very good at it.  I think I maybe set ambitions too high or something like that.  So eventually, I moved the blog to Tumblr and made it into what it is today…essentially a daily bit of randomness from the web. What it doesn’t have a lot of though is anything personal that I want to work on, it’s just a curated bit of entertainment that I push out once a day. Those posts pushed to Twitter and Facebook, and occasionally people would see them and respond, which I liked because, frankly, I like engaging with people over the internet, even if it’s over silly things like potato mashers.
What doesn’t really fit in with the blinkingline journal is my personal stuff.  I think there have been a few personal posts there, but honestly, they are so few and far between and when I have posted more personal content, I felt like I was just fucking the BLJ up.
So I created the Megaphone.
The BLJ will stay what it is, and those daily posts will replicate over to Megaphone every day.  If you’re more interested in whatever is going on with me on a more personal level, or weird nonsense I may create or do, then you might be interested in following along here.  If you’re a friend of mine on a social network, I’ve cut off the feeds from the BLJ and will now be pushing out from Megaphone exclusively. If that clutters up your stream, with stuff you could care less about, feel free to block me or whatever.

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Today in Space

This photo was captured from outside the enormous mouth of NASA’s giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Previously used for manned spaceflight missions, this historic chamber is now filled with engineers and technicians preparing a lift system that will be used to hold the James Webb Space Telescope during testing.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
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Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/space-simulation-chamber-prepared-for-testing-webb-telescope

Today in Space

Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) took this photograph of the Alps from the International Space Station, and posted it to social media on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. She wrote, “I’m biased, but aren’t the Alps from space spectacular? What a foggy day on the Po plane, though! #Italy”
Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/content/view-of-the-alps-from-space