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Steven Ray Orr: Mother Canada
http://www.stevenrayorr.com/2015/07/03/mother-canada
It’s particularly hard to honour the drowned from dry land. So the statue is reaching out its skinny arms to sea while we try not to stare at her bony behind. It’s awkward, and will be worse in winter when ice hangs from her bony fingers and saltwater lashes her eyeballs. It’s a great site for child-scaring. Maybe it’ll ward off crows. Be described as Canadian. I’m not the one trying to win an election in October. 2008 - 2016 Steven Ray Orr Template: HTML5 UP.
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Steven Ray Orr: The Style Guide: On Origin Stories [Episode 1]
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The Style Guide: On Origin Stories [Episode 1]. Why do we tell them? And are they any good? That first episode can be found on The Style Guide website. If you prefer, you can subscribe in iTunes. Finally, we can also be found on Twitter @StyleGuideFM. Come for the nerdiness, stay for the. 2008 - 2016 Steven Ray Orr Template: HTML5 UP.
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Steven Ray Orr: Errands for Fools
http://www.stevenrayorr.com/2015/05/06/errands-for-fools
Is there anything more to video games’ popularity than violent fantasies and mindless escape? Can they ever teach us about who we are as a community and how we can be better? As a father and a teacher struggling to instill values in my kids and my students who were all born, it seems, clutching video-game controllers I wanted to find out. The experiences are varied and calling them merely ‘violent fansties’ or ‘mindless escape’ is entirely mistaken (and, of course, unhelpful). The Legend of Zelda.
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Steven Ray Orr: Reconciliation
http://www.stevenrayorr.com/2015/06/02/reconcilation
Let us take the opportunity and admit the faults of those that came before us and our own. Let us be the better angels of the human heart. 2008 - 2016 Steven Ray Orr Template: HTML5 UP.
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Steven Ray Orr: The Jewelled Tent
http://www.stevenrayorr.com/2015/04/26/death-of-philosophy
The supposed death of philosophy is always said to be the eternally upon us tomorrow and if not outright death, then merely its inability to cohere within the contemporary world (which amounts to much the same): It is near. If not now, then. We, that is to speak of us who I suppose must be considered not-philosophers, merely dance at the precipice of thought, rather than engage in it as true philosophers would (do? Or, as Le Dœuff might reply, what ‘we’, great philosophers?
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Steven Ray Orr: "A sufficient element of obstreperous individual genius and irony"
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A sufficient element of obstreperous individual genius and irony". In case you were curious, ‘obstreperous’ means noisy, clamorous, or boisterous. 2008 - 2016 Steven Ray Orr Template: HTML5 UP.
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Christmas Village Madness Redux. The Necessity of Christmas Villages. The Style Guide: On The Force Awakens (Again) [Episode 26]. The Very Gods Themselves. The Style Guide: On Margaret Atwood [Episode 25]. Question Period: Episodes 24-26. Getting the soul in motion". The Style Guide: On Sense8 [Episode 24]. The Style Guide: On Quentin Tarantino [Episode 23]. The 'Life' and 'Death' of Philosophy. A world infinitely populated". The Style Guide: On Cartoons [Episode 22]. Question Period: Episodes 21-23.
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Steven Ray Orr: The Sandbox Reborn
http://www.stevenrayorr.com/2015/07/16/sandbox-reborn
Patrick Lindsey for Paste Magazine. Life, too, is a sandbox. The world is filled with an infinite number of opportunities and setbacks, all swirling around in the quantum chaos that is our daily life. This is perhaps the most valuable lesson I’ve extracted from my time with the game failure is okay. Inevitable, even. The important thing is that you pick up your crown, dust yourself off and live to rule another day. 2008 - 2016 Steven Ray Orr Template: HTML5 UP.
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Steven Ray Orr: The Senate is Not the Problem
http://www.stevenrayorr.com/2015/06/07/senate-reform
The Senate is Not the Problem. By no means do I suggest that we should simply ignore the results of the audit. Its outcome will and should have significant consequences for those senators who are found guilty, but what is more important is the concerns that it raises about the internal processes that initially cleared them. If nothing else it is evident that there needs to be a serious reevaluation of the internal governance of our political institutions. 2008 - 2016 Steven Ray Orr Template: HTML5 UP.
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Steven Ray Orr: The Tell-Time Heart
http://www.stevenrayorr.com/2015/05/16/tell-time-heart
I wrote something about the Apple Watch. Nervous very, very dreadfully nervous my tweets have proven I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? Apple had sharpened my senses not destroyed not dulled them. Above all was the sense of touch acute. I felt things across the Internet and in the earth. I felt many things beyond. How, then, am I mad? And observe how healthily as indeed my fitness app proves how calmly I can tell you the whole story. Yes, it was this!
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