Is David Lewis an Idiot?

This is a short one, I've been think of Modal Realism and the laws of physics in general and here's the problem I've seen. Modal Realism suggests that every possible world exists, but beyond our immediate reach. Worlds where Elvis, JFK amd your uncle Dave never died. Worlds were magic is real and worlds were humanity never existed. Doesn't this thought fly in the face of the first law of Thermodynamics, i.e. the conservation of energy? Said law states that energy can not be created or destroyed. For Modal Realism to work one would require infinite space (which I'm happily buy), infinite matter (which I think it pushing it alittle) and lastly infinite energy (which I can't buy.)It's a nice thought that your imaginary friends from childhood are really out there, but it seems improbable.

30 Hours Awake

I've been awake for about 30 hours and it started with at 3:10pm yesterday and I continued fuck it. I'm tired and don't want to be clever. I feel like I'm dying and I think I fucked my job, I pissed off a prospective employeer. I want to sleep and I'm going to try very soon.

How To Fix A Washed Ipod

This fix is all about speed, time and luck. The AppleCare warrenty and the store warrenty typically doesn't cover this type of accidental damage, so you can't turn to them. Here's what you do:
1) Don't mess with it! Pressing buttons will force more moisture into the Ipod.

2) Wipe the surface with a dry towel.

3) Put the Ipod in a bag of uncooked rice so to draw out more moisture.

4) Check a lunar calender to see when is the next full moon, now the next full moon put the Ipod, still in the bag outside, facing south. You'll want to leave it there until the next full moon. Obviously, put it somewhere out of the way.

5) Each night, at exactly midnight, light a candle and recite this prayer: "I envoke the Dark Arts that formed thee to mend thee." Say this until you feel a sudden shortness of breath and a chill runs down your spine. This is just the damaged Ipod stripping a tiny bit of your soul to go toward fixing it.

6) After the lunar month is over, contact an exorcist to excise any demons that might have found its way into the Ipod. (It's technical fixed now, but don't skip this step, less the Ipod starts to murder your loved ones.)

This is a little more tricky because the clergy tend to want to destroy posessed items rather than excise them. Pay a kid to pretend to be posessed and hide the Ipod under him. Find a skinny kid, because a heavier one might crack the screen. The light of God will purge any demons out and congradulations, you fixed your Ipod!

On Villains Types In Writing

It's my belief that a hero is only as good as the villain he fights. Consider Superman, with all his strength and abilities- how impressive would he really be if he only fought street thug boosting cars and purses. He needs his Lex, Batman needs his Joker, Donald needs his Rosie. An antagonist or villain serves a number of purposes, namely is being a reflection of the hero, revealing the heroes fears and weaknesses, showing their bravery. A villain shouldn't just be what the hero is not.

I've separated villains into five categories as I've seen them in popular culture:
1. The Pinky and the Brain Types
This is normally relegated to comedic roles although not always. They are ideal for the realm of comedy because of the fact that they're chronic losers. Pinky and the Brain have and will never win. They need no hero to thwart them although hero have been added to such villain type. Earlier Hero comics are an example. Every week, Superman beat back the forces of evil and the forces of evil got back up to be beaten back again.
2. The Minion Types
This type is normally not looked at as being evil, but being used by evil. There's the faceless face to be punched. The question some may be asking is, what's the different between Type 1 and Type 2. The audience doesn't care about a minion, they're pawns and no one mourns the loss or injury of a pawn.
3. The Joker Types
The Joker type is the next and more common level of villainy. They are the hero's equal and the hero's mirror. They push the hero amd make the audience cheek when and if the hero wins. If the hero saves the day, it means something, this type presents an actually threat to something.
4. The Devil Types
This type is a more mental type of villain. They make the hero doubt himself, they shake the hero to the core. They are the villain that heroes avoid due to the fear that they may fail. It's rare that the hero outright defeats this villain as much as they stop a specific plot and a bit of the time it's more the mountain than the climb that hinder the hero. The fight isn't normally as hands on. A spell uttered, a plunger dropped, a portal opened.
5. The Gambit
The gambit is basically the villain that eventually becomes a hero or at least does something heroic. It's as simple as that.

A Quick List Of Good Villains to check out:
John Alpha and his shadowy cohort- The 7th Son Trilogy- Free via jchutchins.net/
Alex Delarge- Clockwork Orange: Available on DVD and Blueray
Annie Wilkes- Misery: Read the book, the movie's good, the book is better! Available on Amazon.com
Hannibal Lecter- The Silence Of The Lambs: Available on DVD and Blueray

An Attempt to Think Through My Craft

I'm thinking about the way I write and who I interact with in a writing capacity. Who is helping me, who's hurting me and I've started feeling somewhat fortunate. It's along the lines of the proverb about the man with no shoes meeting the man with no feet. I have time to write, a computer to write on and educated, mildly interested people to read the stories I write. I have access to a wealth spring of advice via Itunes podcasts. I've got it better than some. So I've decided that I'll "shit" rather than getting off the pot. I'm going to orchestrate my own one man mini- NanoWrimo. 19,000 words by the end of April or just how much it takes to finally finishing my novel. That's about 700 words a day, which isn't a lot when you do the math so it's doable if I'm not lazy, which I am admittedly. I literally start the book 3 years ago, it's only 206 pages and 61,000 words. I know how to finish it, I've planned and re-planned and re-re-planned the ending in both outline and in my mind. It's going to happen, it'll happen soon.

What will be the next challenge to meet head on after that and the editing, that I actually somehow find more fulfilling is the Agent/ Editoring (I'm sure that's not a real term.) I think that's so fulfilling because it's more immediate. Weirdly, I like mailing agents and like rejections because it's a result . I put something out into the world and they bite or they don't. With a story or even this blog, there isn't a real pass or fail feeling.

A Quick List of the writing Podcasts I'm Listening to:
I Should Be Writing: Hosted by Mur Lafferty
Writing Excuses: Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells And Howard Tayler
Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshops: Hosted by Odyssey Writing Workshops and Saint Anseim College; Directed by Jean Caveilos