A First Step towards UX Sanity Checking ABSTRACT This paper proposes an introspective test to see whether the reader of this paper is a charlatan UX practitioner. If so, it points ways the reader can professionalize their practice. For the non-UX professional this questionnaire can act as an interview script to ascertain how professional a…
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Know before you go: a first time kink primer
Whether just wanting to spice up your sex life or thinking of going into a kink lifestyle, starting the right way will have a big impact on your attitudes towards kink. In short here are 12 things to know before you go into the world of kink for the first few times. 1. A little…
Volume II of Goldberg Variations released!
I finally was able to release Volume II of The Goldberg Variations, The Redemption of the Damned. It is available now in paperback or ebook from Amazon, and from your local bookstore in a couple of weeks. The delays were beyond our control and the book had to outlive the ArnoLand Press which succumbed to…
LGBTQ and Christian Fundamentalists? One SDA man’s story of self-acceptence
There are many Christian Fundamenetalists who also happen to be homosexual, if not a member of the LGBTQ community. My late partner, Dr. Morris Taylor knows first hand the pain and suffering these people go through. He was a leader in the Seventh Day Adventist community. Below is the text of an address Dr. Taylor gave…
White Nausea
Related links: Jeffrey Robinson on White Supremacy White Fragility page Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide New York Review of Books Review of Ostler’s Surviving Genocide Washington Post’s review of White Fragility State of Indiana’s website info on Native Americans Native Languages site info on Indiana In the well-meaning and surprisingly banal book, White Fragility by Robin…
Taking the Fast RIDE: Designing While Being Agile
A new year and a new post in my less than active blog, here is an article that originally appeared in interactions magazine. While many design methods are practiced “in the wild,” the most prevalent one appears to be “Design first and ask questions later”—also known as “Throw it over the wall and see if…
Black Lives Matter: the new equality
George Floyd will not have lived in vane. He is igniting a crucial moment in American history. Now is the time to rise to the situation. COVID Shut down, shelter in place, death counts, these were the top of mind concerns of the country. The news was an endless drone of the same pandemic. Even…
Consent and Master/slave relationships
This article covers the definition of consent and how consent is handled in Master/slave (M/s) relationships. Specifically, this article discusses consent in the context of a relationship not a single act (footnote, we will include a link to the consent in kink acts when it becomes available until then please see the NCSF site for…
Depression in the Age of Trump
It is very hard to take that almost 50% of this country supports a blatantly incompetent president. No one has done more damage to America’s greatness and its reputation. Yet an alarming number of people continue to cheer him on. We’ve become the laughing stock of the foreign press. We are destroying our precious country’s…
The MAGA Suicides, the “Rise” of Racism and the coronavirus
I have been working diligently on preparing for the release of my upcoming Volume II of the Goldberg Variations. I apologize for the delay, but one of the minor sources of the delay is a writers block because I can’t seem to get something off my mind unless I write this post. As we know…