This prediction is more conservative than those of several relevant domain experts I’ve heard recently. — This was originally published to my Awesome Wizard Guide. If this prediction doesn’t come true I’ll renounce my title as unofficial Wizard of Canada. Don’t panic! (It’s hard to use panic in productive ways.) This prediction is a bit of a cheat because I have access to special information that is widely disregarded by the general public for reasons relating…

Some information about realistic wizarding — I’m a wizard and I know I’m a wizard. This means I don’t really need to test this fact against the opinions of others because I know I don’t need any sort of external validation for these efforts (sometimes I want it though). …

Magick is Real and You are Under Attack (Part 2) — This is a follow-up piece to my most read article — written about a year ago. It’s been a little over a year now since I sorta figured out I was a wizard. I’ve only become more concerned as the nature of reality has proven itself to be shockingly complicated…

There are undiscovered physics of consciousness and belief is a functional component of reality — For the purpose of the poem below: endosymbiosis is when a single celled organism eats another one and then they merge into multicellular life rather than having the big one consume the small one for energy. I’ve heard some people say this may only have happened once. I’m not a…

But only until we win and I make a few important things happen. Then I’ll fuck off from politics. I promise. — This was originally posted to my Awesome Wizard Guide. My name is Eric Lortie and I’m a software developer from Nova Scotia. My mom was in the the army and my dad was in the navy. I grew up in both British Columbia and Nova Scotia, my family is in…

We grow. — Jon Stewart asked for his audience to submit ideas for education system reform in this video. I have experience proposing substantial reform to large systems, so I figured I’d take a crack at it, although that isn’t the same as having experience enacting substantial reforms. Take this blog post with…

Relates to another poem from my next book of poetry — I’m a big fan of religion, faith, freedom, and all sorts of stuff. See? So if you’re going to have a problem with what I’m saying here please come at me from the right angle: If you think I’m personally criticizing you, it’s probably because I think the systems you…

It’s not a thing. Don’t act like it’s the biggest thing. — You can be boring. You can be predictable. You can be uninspired. You can be cringe. You can be ignorant. You can be wrong. You can be offensive. You can be a failure. You can be illegitimate. You can be a real fucking bummer. You can be unemployed. You can be all sorts of shitty things that mean people will have legitimate reasons to not want anything to do with you.