Here is what I read in March: Living in the Eighties by David Ira Cleary (Asimov’s 4/12). [3/2/2012] Some Curious Effects of Time Travel by L. Sprague de Camp (Astounding, April 1942). [3/2/2012] Pig Trap by Malcolm Jameson (Astounding, April 1942). [3/2/2012] Time Pussy by Isaac Asimov (as by George E. Dale) (Astounding, April 1942).…
Nope, I haven’t bought a ticket and I have no plans on doing so. Other than as a novelty gift for others, I’ve never purchased a lottery ticket. Not for myself, nor for part of a group venture. I can have as just much fun imaging what I’d do with $540 million without the ticket…
Here is another look at some personal analytics data. In this chart, you can see my online activity plotted for 2011: The activity is color-coded and broken into six categories: Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Instagram, Mobile Photos and Check-ins. Note that this is not a complete set of online activity, but it is everything that gets…
I think I’ve had an unbroken subscription to Scientific American for the last 15 years or so. This week, I gave up my paper subscription. I usually purchased my subscription for 3 years at a time, but the latest round was due to expire in June or July, I think. I’d started getting the reminder notices,…
We are pretty lucky. We live in an area where we can do a lot of walking. Our house resides in a little community right next to a Target and Safeway shopping center. Unless we are getting something big or doing lots of shopping at once, we almost always walk. It takes five minutes to…
I was recently interviewed by the good folks at 40K Books. You can head over there to check out the interview. I talk about the future of books, about the origins and themes in my two stories with 40K Books, about science fiction and writing. It was fun to do.
Well, it’s here. Although technically, I wasn’t born until the middle of the afternoon on March 27, 1972, legally, I turned forty as of midnight and have thus been so for nearly eight hours. How were those eight hours? Well… About two of them were spent sleeping. When I wasn’t sleeping, I was being kicked…
I’ve got about 16 hours of my thirties left and that seems rather momentous to me. I can clearly remember my friends and coworkers in the Santa Monica office throwing me a little party ten years ago as I forever left my twenties behind. Â And here I am on the cusp of doing the same…
As Evernote’s Paperless Lifestyle ambassador, I am frequently asked about going paperless. What tips can I give? How have I done it? What problems have I run into? I’ve decided that a weekly “tips” post is in order to help to stem the tide and also to (hopefully) provide some advice and ideas for those…
Last weekend, the faucet in our kitchen sink came loose. I tried to repair it using plumbers putty, followed by Gorilla Glue. Either solution worked. At the same time, we’d had a slow leak from the faucet in our master bathroom. I decided to take care of both problems this weekend. We live within walking…
After graduation, I moved back to my parent’s house. They lived in Northridge, California, but the earthquake earlier that year had forced them out of their house and into a rental nearby while their house was repaired. Â I worked most of that summer of that summer doing computer work for the dorm cafeteria at UC…
Sometime in the spring of 1994, the last semester of senior year at college, me and a bunch of friends headed over to the local theater one evening to catch the film With Honors. I knew nothing about the movie going in, but it ultimately dealt with college kids (at Harvard, I believe) and at…