Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Blind Joe Death was the name John Fahey recorded his earliest recordings under. Now a days many musicians use pseudonyms, but in 1959 pretending you were something or someone else while self releasing an album was near unheard of. In addition to self releasing his first album in an extremely limited pressing of only 100 [...]

Everyone else is talking about Diablo III, but I actually started my first game of Sid Meier’s Civilization V since 11-11-6 today. My eyes were starting to glaze over as I tried to read three chapters on economics. Yesterday I went to Civ Fanatics for the first time in almost six months to read their [...]

Once again SOLEfood was in the Vancouver Sun as they announced they were building a new larger urban farm in a much more visible  location than Hastings and Hawkes. This is of course good news to see on Twitter and main stream media. I was involved during the gestation period of the project that became [...]

As someone who has put up with a lot over the last few years and believes in generally treating people decently online and offline, I have to advocate trying to keep a positive attitude and walking away from most confrontations. Bite your tongue, turn the other cheek, and walk away. Disassociate with anyone who turns [...]

I learned long ago the dangers of electronic communication and just how debilitating mental illness can be. Depression isn’t something I talk about much, though there was an extended period when I wrote too much about the difficulties I was having and how I just couldn’t make people see how much they were hurting me. [...]