James Cavin

James Cavin Writes Oct 27, 2025

Cleaning Simulators make me metaphysically uncomfortable

-OR- Is all fun good fun? Distraction, entertainment, and the slow murder of our capacity for satisfaction.

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James Cavin Writes Oct 14, 2025

Eleven interesting quotes, from a hoard obsessively collected over many years with no particular rhyme or reason

One of the things that I do instead of driving fast cars and dating supermodels is collect interesting quotes.

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James Cavin Writes Sep 21, 2025

The Great Gumdrop Robbery is Poetry

A quick followup to my previous post about Russel Hoban's The Hungry Three series!

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James Cavin Writes Aug 23, 2025

A reading recommendation: Russell Hoban's The Hungry Three series (and also some accidental spicy werewolf romance novel plans, but that's on me, not Russell)

My friend Lars likes to use the phrase, "Garbage in, garbage out."

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James Cavin Writes Jul 7, 2025

Vim Part IV: Three Wounds

A tiny bit of Vim for you today! Just a morsel really, but I have been very sick.

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James Cavin Writes Jul 1, 2025

Watch out, world - I have a keyboard and a headcold.

For my birthday, my brother gave me a MIDI keyboard controller... and a head cold.

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James Cavin Writes Jun 16, 2025

Why are so many videogames about violence?

Bam! Pow! Zap! Other sounds of beeping and blooping digital destruction!

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James Cavin Writes May 30, 2025

Vim Part 3: The stone is sharp

Happy Friday! For those of you to whom reality provides an insufficient amount of psychedelic, grave-robbing shenanigans…

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