Some thoughts on air travel

I’m back home after a thankfully short trip to L.A. During the course of which, I made a few general observations on air travel which I thought I would share with you now: I still think LAX is one of the worst airports I’ve ever been too. My experience was not particularly good or bad [...]

Homeward bound

I’m inboard my flight back home just waiting for everyone to finish boarding before we depart. My seat was changed to an even roomier emergency exit row. Still not a great night’s sleep last night but I’m happy to be heading home and seeing Kelly and the Little Man. I’ll probably be spending most of [...]

30 day song challenge, day 6: a song that reminds you of somewhere

For whatever reason, I associate many songs with very specific places and events. I hear the song and it can sometimes seems as if I am back at the point in time in my memory. What is even freakier is that sometimes it will feel like the particular place or event happened yesterday; I can [...]

Santa Monica, day 3: the bloody sock

Another mostly crappy night’s sleep last night with strange dreams that I can’t remember but which kept waking me up every few hours. I finally gave up around 4:50am and headed into the office around 5:30 to try to get some extra work done. My right sneaker has been rubbing at my heel in an [...]

30 day song challenge, day 5: a song that reminds you of someone

Generally, songs remind me of specific places that I’ve been, or very specific times in my life, so thinking of a song that reminds me of someone was a little tricky. However, after giving it some thought, one song filtered to the top of the list above the others: Just the Way You Are by [...]

Santa Monica, Day 2

My sleep last night was par for the course for a travel day. I generally don’t sleep well when I’m business travel and that has recently been further complicated by the fact that I really miss Kelly and the Little Man when I travel. Our time zone differences and bed times make it so that [...]

30 day song challenge, day 4: a song that makes you sad

This is an odd one. There are several songs that make me sad for different reasons and in thinking through them, I tried to pick one that made me sad for nostalgic reasons as opposed to dark ones. The song that immediately came to mind was: Lost for Words by Pink Floyd This is certainly [...]

Lessons in storytelling: advice from Isaac Asimov

I have mentioned countless times how much I admire and look up to Isaac Asimov. And while I know he had his faults (don’t we all) I have to credit him with teaching me some important things about story-telling, despite the fact that I never got to meet him in person. In fact, an element [...]

Santa Monica, Day 1

Today has been a long day. I was up at 4:30am Eastern, which is 1:30am Pacific, the time zone I am in as I write this post. I arrived at Dulles a little after 5am, and made my way through security and to my gate to discover that my flight was less than half full–very [...]

30 day song challenge, day 3: a song that makes you happy

Finally! An easy and straight-forward category that I don’t have to put much thought into because I know the answer without thinking about it. A song that always makes me happy is: The Main Street Electrical Parade I have some friends who will think this is a good choice, and others who will think I’ve [...]

Travel day

I head to Los Angeles this morning and by the time this post goes out I’ll be more than 40 minutes in the air. This was a last minute, work-related trip. I’m taking the early flight out because it gets me to LAX around 9am and I can get into the office by about 10 [...]

30 day song challenge, day 2: your least favorite song

I wonder how many people doing this challenge thought this was a difficult one. The problem is most people simply don’t listen to their least favorite song so it is hard to bring to mind. Reflecting on this, I’ve come up with two songs. The first is the Eagles “Life in the Fast Lane”. I [...]

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@FredKiesche It's been so long since the one time I read MITHC that I just don't remember the details. :-( 2 hours ago
@FredKiesche Of course, this was happening at a time when many people thought the U.S. might be invaded by either Japan or Germany. 2 hours ago
@FredKiesche And I love the fact that they can't figure out what unit the .45 is in. Very post-singularity kind of thing. 2 hours ago
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@FredKiesche He's one of those writers I haven't read much of... until recently. Chatted with him a few times at cons. @PrinceJvstin 3 hours ago
@FredKiesche Not buying, but still reading, I take it... I think the industry builds Lent into its business model. 3 hours ago
@PrinceJvstin And the first half of RECRUITING STATION reminded me of Hubbard's FEAR (in tone). Also a creepy story. @FredKiesche 3 hours ago
@PrinceJvstin It is my thesis for the story in my next Vacation post. @FredKiesche 3 hours ago
@PrinceJvstin The villain in the Swanwick story is even creepier than the villain in RECRUITING STATION. @FredKiesche 3 hours ago
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