What I wish people knew about engineers: We can be distinct from scientists! For those of us who left high school (or entered it) with a love of math, science, technology, and learning, there awaits a big, wide future of…
Coming up, I’m starting a new, six-part series about what I wish people knew about engineers. This is inspired by assumptions I’ve encountered at conventions, committees, church, and anywhere else I’ve spent time interacting with non-engineers; there are a plethora…
There’s one last panel I want to elaborate on from Confluence this year (link): “Should Fantasy Acknowledge Physics?” This panel seemed to have a set of speakers who were a little too homogenous of thought. (The esteemed Tamora Pierce excepted,…
Image courtesy of Rick Burke I have a spreadsheet that outputs planets for my series! Yay! What’s right about, what’s wrong about it, and why did I choose to do it that way? It all started with a few comments in…