A windsurfing, CSS-grudging, IE7-hating, web-developing, gigantic-machine-puzzling friend joins the blogging fray HiveLogic has a new Mac Pro: and wants you (me? us?) to name it Pete is rocking DC’s house party scene and Ben has the picture to prove it (don’t let the over-exposure fool you, this photo was NOT taken in 1977) I’ve made […]
This bit from Wired is making the rounds the past day or so and my copy came in the mail yesterday; I’ll chime in, too. Their sub-title: 33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction. Six of my favorites: Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time (Alan Moore) Longed for him. Got him. Shit. (Margaret Atwood) It […]
In ’04 my excuse was… Well, I didn’t have one. Last year I was in the midst of a “serious” project. (And, honestly, I still am…) But this year I have decided to do it. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and (as declared elsewhere) I have signed up. I’ve decided that this is […]
I don’t know whether or not to be thankful that someone out there had the presence of mind to create the libwpd suite of conversion utilities. On the one hand, it has allowed me to rescue dozens (hundreds?) of poems, short stories, essays, notes, starts to novels, completed novellas, lists, and other assorted writings from being […]
It’s been a while since I last posted any excerpts from my draft. Due in part to the nasty nature of our move, the project just sort of fell off my radar for a while. Not to suggest that it was not in the back of my mind but it’s a little hard to make […]
A couple of nice article slugs on LifeHacker about how to keep a budget and how to manage your emergency fund… B^2 plug for Dale Bailey‘s collection The Resurrection Man’s Legacy. Looks like it will be a good bunch of reading. Pink’s Wired article “What Kind of Genius Are You?” is available online. Interesting read: […]
“Dangerous Liaisons” Sexual trysts of Aristocratic French Beyond my control ***** “E.T.” Brown alien stuck on Earth with stupid white kids. I would phone home, too. ***** “Waterworld” It is like Mad Max But in the ocean’s future. Fucking terrible.
43 Folders on “12 ways to better sleep” – – almost all of these are things I’d discussed with my doctor last year when I had my last really serious insomnia bout. I’m right there with him on the melatonin, too. That always helps but I’ve heard you’ll want to be cautious with your long-term […]
In the tradition of “1st 503” and “another 507” here is the first 509 words of chapter 3: Gregor says openly that his skeptical analysis is for the sake of crewism. At this point it is as much about all of us making it out alive as it is about getting that damn cone as […]
Completed draft two of my novel this evening. This round of revisions brings us to 340 pages and 80,625 words. Respectable. Smoothed out some edges, touched up the prose, rounded out some dialogue… All the stuff you’d expect from revisions. I’d say it’s time for another read of my own but I need reader feedback […]