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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 09/06/2026

So…let’s talk about vision. About a month ago, I had a detached retina in my right eye, and the subsequent surgery to repair it. The problem is: it has drastically changed the vision in that eye so that my glasses don’t work with it. It makes it hard to read. This is bad for a writer.

The author, with disheveled bed head, wearing a pair of test glasses with interchangeable lenses. Generally funny lookin’.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 11/10/2025

How much water can a garden hose spew out in 24 hours? Not quite a pool full, as it turns out.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 25/06/2025

Yanno those email spams about butter in coffee?

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 14/05/2025

I think I know why this radio’s reception is fuzzy.

Mork the orange and white kitten climbing through the dial hole of an antique console radio

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 28/02/2025

I hate to shut down. She looks so peaceful and warm.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 02/02/2025

Took the Achromat lens out shooting today. It’s one of those “Art lenses”—an optical design from 1837, used on the original Daguerrotype. These are pine needles shot with shallow DOF.

Pine needles with Achromat lens and shallow depth of field.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 21/01/2025

Apparently, the cat has spent more time with this keyboard than I thought. On the other hand, people pay money to have mechanical keyboards dampened…

Keyboard with the caps off, baring a shameful amount of cat hair.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 18/12/2024

How many of y’all have painted toenails right now?

Picture of a male foot withbright coral toenail polish

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 14/12/2024

Proof that two years ago or so, Puma was an adorable kitten too. No neck, vaguely demonic, but adorable. :)

Puma (the cat) at about 4 months old, scratching her new scratching post.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 10/12/2024

Commodore 64. First computer I *used* was a TRS-80 model 3, but it didn’t belong to me.

Image from wikimedia of a breadbin Commodore 64

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 30/11/2024

Dos. Because some days, I want a computer that just does what I tell it, even if what I tell it is stupid. #retrocomputing

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 25/11/2024

A fascinating chart that’s been making the rounds.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 23/11/2024

So, still moving backwards, we’ve come to the first Poltergeist! book. A young man goes camping in the woods in Minnesota. Ten years later, he still hasn’t come back. Desperate, his father hires Nina Cohen, Poltergeist Detective, to find him. Turns out, she’s not the only poltergeist in town.

Cover of Poltergeist! Ask the Dust. It features a woods with fog, with the silhouettes of a woman and her cat, representing Nina Cohen, poltergeist detective, and her faithful sidekick, Djinn. Who is just a cat.

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 20/11/2024

Continuing through the Poltergeist! series backwards: Nina’s got troubles of her own, but when a local high school girl goes missing, the police ask her to go undercover in the school. The reward money better be worth it...

The cover of Poltergeist! Dead of Winter. It depicts an ice covered window with a black cat looking out, and a shadowy, screaming woman looking in. This book is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW3DBZS8?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_25SW2R6QGFCQEWNAJ2P4

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James R. Strickland (he/him) @jamesrstrickland.com · 20/11/2024

This is the third book in my Poltergeist! series. Nina Cohen, Poltergeist detective, finally goes on vacation. While waiting for her boyfriend—who was established in the previous book—to join her, she gets involved in a local mystery of the Lake Superior Mermaid.

A book cover with the sun over water and a beach, the shadow of a woman in a bikini, a black cat, and the words “Poltergeist! Bikini Body” as the title.

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