Clearing the decks

With the start of NaNoWriMo just 1 week away, something’s got to give.  And so, it is with a fair amount of disappointment that I am giving up on the backlog of science magazines sitting on a pile on my desk.  I got lazy and allowed myself to get far enough behind to where it [...]

Capclave 2010

I spent Friday evening and all day Saturday at Capclave, the local science fiction convention put on by the Washington Science Fiction Association.  I like Capclave because it centers around short fiction, which is what I write, and avoids media-related science fiction and fantasy.  I had a lot of fun at Capclave.  What follows is [...]

Doppelgänger

A colleague stopped by today asked me if I knew who ESPN’s Sport Science host John Brenkus was?  I didn’t.  So he told me to go look him up at once on ESPN.  Apparently, he looks just like me.  Or I look just like him.  I dunno, he looks older than me, but setting that [...]

Deadlines

I’m entering a kind of writer’s crunch time.  NaNoWriMo begins in ten days.  I still have nearly 40 chapters worth of outlining to complete before then.  (I suppose I don’t have to complete all 40 before then, but I learned from last year that not having a complete and well-thought out outline can lead to [...]

Tardy bells, redux

With all of the meetings I have been in lately, I once again find it frustratingly necessary to implement some kind of tardy bell within my company.  This is nothing new.  I wrote on this very subject over four years ago, and nothing has changed.  People are still routinely late to meetings, often without notice [...]

Thank you, you’re welcome

My grandfather was very big on please, thank you and you’re welcome, and I picked some of that up from him.  It is always nice to be courteous and saying please and thank you are very simple ways of doing this.  But I think trends are changing.  (I may have pointed this out before but [...]

The Arlington Writers Group

I mentioned my Wednesday night writer’s group in the previous post, so I thought I should discuss that briefly.  Tonight will be the 6th meeting I’ve attended of the Arlington Writers Group and the group will be critiquing a story of mine called “In the Cloud”. I discovered this group through another writing colleague, Larry [...]

A fair-weather fan?

I was accused, yesterday, of being a fair-weather fan because I complained that I was giving up on last night’s game and heading off to bed.  I surprised by the accusation.  No one with whom I work would ever consider me a fair-weather fan, but since I couldn’t sleep last night, I gave the matter [...]

Testing again

Another test of Facebook integration.  Please ignore.

So this guy walks into a door…

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, I know.  But what it is, in fact, is the pathetic tale of the damage I did to myself while in Newport News, Virginia this weekend.  This is a dangerous tale to tell, so before I proceed, I should warn you: make sure you have no food [...]

Science Fiction Age: Volume 2, Issue 3 (March 1994)

Each issue of Science Fiction Age presented a good mix of fiction, not just genre (fantasy, science fiction), but types too (humor, horror).  This issue is no exception, but the most remarkable thing to me containted in the March 1994 issue is the precience of Scott Edelman’s editorial.  Titled, “We must leave our children the [...]

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