Sometimes something reminds you: E.L. Doctorow said, “Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. . . . Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make […]
Not really that funny… But it’s timely what w/ YT reading Cryptonomicon at the moment…
So I’m reading it now for the 3rd (4th?) time and it just cannot seem to lose its charm. Example: Of course, there’s a way to dodge any problem. The university had lots of computers. If Randy could get an account on one of them, he could write is program there and run it for […]
surreal moment on tonight’s drive home… sirens. lights. two cop cars later, a pizza delivery truck (!?) blows by.
Ah, a perblog moment. A status report, if you will. Reading: Orwell’s Burmese Days — delightful political intrigue and social commentary re: the decline of the British colonization in India. ALSO… Brushing up on my PHP again with Lerdorf’s Programming PHP and taking another stab at Williams & Lane’s Web Database Applications… Meanwhile Flanagan’s Javascript […]
Fighting to Preserve Old Programs: “My general reaction to the Internet Archive’s request is that it’s a very good thing,” said Jennifer Urban, a visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley’s law school. “I certainly hope that the (Copyright Office) grants it, because it will go some distance in allowing archives to be able […]
how many times you been on Boing Boing now? Go Book Thing!
anyone know of a publishing company interested in publishing a 20-something writer w/ sci-fi leanings and penchant for emobdying funked gender politics? a writer who has no prev’ly published short storied b/c frankly he just can’t contain himself to under 20 pages? i realized last night as i (didn’t) drift off to be that my […]