JetGirlArt
JetGirlArt
Melinda Wyers
Hello, my name is Melinda and I do quite a few things. I am a writer / designer living in Texas. I currently run the Y2K Quarterly literary magazine. My work can be read in Rejection Letters, Free Radicals Magazine, and HAD. This site is for my personal blog and various project updates. You can read my self published work at Moonlit Radio.
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I always see these posts about ditching smartphones and going back to flip phones that only call and this and that. I assume these people don't use auth apps or phone 2FA. If you don't need them to access work or have a non cellular...
So, I've noticed that Twitter has had an auto translate thing for a while now. You'll see a post from someone with an all kanji name but the text is in english. Then under their name is a little note that says "Translated from Japanese."...
Did I write anything in the last few days? No. Did I decide to spool up an aggregate site to show me all the stuff I follow on one page because it's too hard to have numerous RSS Feeds proc in a Discord channel? Yes. It has light/dark...
In 2014 I decided to try my hand at writing a book. I did, and it was terrible. Then in 2018 I tried again and wrote something not terrible but not great. Neither of these books had anything in common. In art school you are told you need...
I do not enjoy Commander. I know that's the way everyone likes to play these days and what most of the events are. The whole reason it's played so readily is because you can use your older cards from a much wider pool than standard. I...
That's what that title sounds like, lol. The kids were watching the Nintendo announcement video yesterday to see what kind of shenanigans were going on in Switchland. I sat and watched it with them to see if there was going to be...
So I got that little zine marketplace site to work locally on my machine. Got it hooked up to the stripe sandbox stuff to test payments and it all worked just fine. I added a bunch of dummy zines to test the checkout and user reading...
That's what videogames are for, right? Driving around in the cars you can never afford? Racing like gas isn't 5 dollars a gallon? Where if you work in a pizza shop or cafe you actually make money? Where if you throw a rod into a pond you...
"Wrestling is fake!" Well, no. It's not fake, it's choreographed, practiced, and performed by athletes who spend hours in the gym to safely do their part. That's like saying a play isn't real. Is it a MMA fight or boxing match? No, but...
I can ride a bike just fine. As a kid I had the little red tricycle and moved up to a pink Huffy with tassels and training wheels sometime around kindergarten. We lived on a narrow unmarked road as a kid so watching for cars was...
So a while back I wrote a post about zines. In that post I talked about how I felt that making a marketplace for zines would be too difficult to monetize. And by monetize I don't mean make me money but generate enough money to pay for...
this post is in response to this post by lwgrs and this post by donthave2sting. I am also not going to talk about shortwave radio in this post as it's outside the scope of these two but historically speaking it predates FM radio and was...
I have to preface this with the fact that I am objectively bad at shooter games. Worse when I am on a team where my job is to assist. Last week my husband was playing ARC Raiders after work and mentioned the fact we never play videogames...
In 2009 I started my first little zine. Back then I still did art full time and kept up with my artist friends and such. The zine was online, just a self hosted Wordpress site (It's all I knew how to do.) on a $5 a month cheap host. I...
I have a couple of episodes sketched out for the next season of Y2KFM and was checking out what is popular in the podcast world. I have my handful of go-to podcasts to listen to in the car when dropping off/picking up kids and going to...