Via B^2: Philip Sandifer is a graduate student in U. Fla’s English program, and keeps a personal creative writing journal called “Pulp Decameron,” where he posts very short stories in the styles of various pulp genres. The stories are released under a Creative Commons license. One story, I am Ready to Serve My Country, is […]
House hunt goes very average. Price points are tough in greater Burlington. We saw a half-dozen places in 48 hours that have left us feeling very flat. We’re not afraid of a little elbow grease to get a place in order but it also seems a little ridiculous that something should need $10-20k in immediate […]
I’ve travelled backward in time to interview Philip K. Dick. Instead of dying, he slipped into an alternate future and moved into a well-appointed retirement community. He’s got his own, secure bungalow and is generally left alone by the staff. He does not seem particularly happy to see me but that’s because (he admits) he […]
Via /.: Biotech Firm Raises Furor With Rice Plan: The company also has ambitious plans to add its product to infant formula, a $10 billion-a-year market, even though the major food manufacturers have so far shown little interest in using genetically engineered ingredients. But Deeter says Ventria can win over the manufacturers and consumers by […]
It’s the aftermath of a party. Some childish, totally juvenile bash of high schoolers trying on adult vices. Drinking and drugs and sex all forced down our throats by ourselves. It was too early to try and too late to hold ourselves back. But that’s all past now and I’m the only one left from […]
When your house is on the market, cook lots of tasty, good-smelling things in the crockpot. Get that thing started in the a.m. and let it run all day. Let people think about how good your house smells in addition to how good it looks. Whatever works, right? currently playing: Sasha & John Digweed “Delta […]
Flickr goes gamma. The new interface is cool. It’ll take some getting used to (I was just starting to get used to their old pathological interface) but my initial impression has been double-plus good. Especially since they haven’t changed the overall site look-and-feel or layout (a chronic plague of site feature updates/upgrades everywhere). Best change? […]
For S-C (satori caught by Akismet in comment spam): Iron necessity.- Iron necessity is a thing which has been found, in the course of history, to be neither iron nor necessary. Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will […]
A crazy couple of weeks tearing by. Seems like we just got through the grand’rents’ 50th and then our own kitchen counters ordeal and things just keep grinding on. Aside from the usual hands full action (work for me, dissertation writing for A.), all the other down time is filled with those all-important projects like […]
My mom and I are making our way down a series of long corridors. It’s a little dark and damp but that’s to be expected from (what exactly is this place?) a seaport. We’ve got our respective bags slung over our shoulders and are looking forward to a little boat ride. (It is a boat […]