Non-book reading

In the last couple of years, the volume of book reading I do has declined somewhat.  There are 2 primary reasons for this: (1) I have been spending more time on other things like the baby and family, as well as trying to focus more of my free time on writing; (2) I have been doing a lot more [...]

New books!

Came home to some new books in the mail today.  First off, one of two rare Isaac Asimov books that were not already in my Asimov collection,  Our Federal Union: The United States from 1816 to 1865. Next on the list is Alastair Reynolds’ first novel Revelation Space.  I saw this book on a must-read list [...]

50, 100 & 150

I’ve been reading SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN regularly since around 1995–about 15 years.  This is long enough to remember when the "50, 100 & 150 years ago" department referred to, say 1945, 1895 and 1845 respectively.  It is therefore a little unsettling to see the column appear today with "March 1960" (50 years ago), "March 1910" (100 years [...]

Recent writing

For the last three days, I have been getting up early and writing, much like I did back in November for NaNoWriMo.  It has been working well for me.  I have averaged about 1,800 words each day, I spend a total of about 2 hours at the keyboard, and then I’m done for the day.  For me, this [...]

All birds come home to roost

A brief note: my experiment with Word Press over for the time being.  It is a great document-management and blogging product, but: I spend way too much time trying to tweak it just the way I want It seems silly to me (now) to manage the blog myself when LiveJournal provides that service Most people reading this [...]

Nebula Award nominee “I Remember the Future” by Michael A. Burstein

The Nebula Awards nominees were announced today and my friend, Michael A. Burstein’s wonderful story, “I Remember the Future” made the ballot in the category of short story. Nebula Awards are voted on by active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the awards will be given out in May. Whether [...]

Readercon 21

I will be attending Readercon 21 this year!  I booked my hotel and registered for the event.  There is some good airfare between BWI and Boston right now and I’ll be getting that today or tomorrow.   The best part is that I should be there for all of Readercon this time (2 years ago, I [...]

Mail bag

I was hoping to find the latest issue of NEW SCIENTIST in the mail today, or perhaps the March issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.  Not today.  But it was nice to find the May issue of ANALOG in the mail box.  Given everything I have to read, I just don’t know when I’ll get to it. [...]

An open letter to Verizon

Dear Verizon, I don’t want FiOS.  I am very happy with Cox cable.  I put a great deal of thought into decisions like these and spamming me with repeated blasts of junk mail trying to make me change my mind does you a lot more harm than good.  But since you insist on sending me [...]

Review: Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (3-1/2 stars)

There are 3 things that I really enjoy reading: science fiction, science and history. Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel, Galileo’s Dream is a terrific fusion of all three. It took me a longer than usual time to read this book, which I started in late December. But despite the interruptions, I kept coming back to [...]

Two new posts in the Adventures of the Little Zipper

There are two new posts available in the Adventures of the Little Zipper: 8 months Smart signing baby class — week 2 If you don’t have access to the blog and would like to read it, let me know. Originally published at Jamie’s Blog. Please leave any comments there.

Taxes

I have collected and completed all of the tax paperwork, and packaged it all up, neatly labeled and indexed for our account to perform her magic on.  It looks as if–for the first time in a decade or so–we’ll be getting a sizable chunk back from the Federal Government, thanks in large part to (a) [...]

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