Sprinting

This evening I am making an end-run at finishing up Blackout by Connie Willis.  Each time I pick the book up, it gets more and more difficult to put down.  I promise to stop at the end of the chapter.  Then I read the first few words of the next chapter and before I know [...]

Recap

A quick recap of today’s dramatic events for those who might have missed them: 1. Very little sleep last night 2. Banged my knee on my desk 3. Busy day at work. No lunch 4. Grilled cheese for dinner 5. Off to bed a few minutes after Zachary End message.

A proliferation of bathrooms

Nerd moment of the day:  I spent part of the afternoon today cleaning bathrooms.  In doing so, it occurred to me that bathrooms in the houses in which I have lived since summer 2002 have increased exponentially as a function to each move.  The chart below illustrates this: I started with 1 bathroom when I [...]

If you saw some duplicate posts…

If you happened to seem some notices for older posts being reposted on LiveJournal, it was a screw-up on my part.  I was attempting to import entries to my WordPress blog and forgot to turn off the LJ-reposter so that older posts were getting reposted as they were imported.  I think I stopped it before [...]

Two rejections before noon

I received two story rejections before noon today, and in some ways, they were oddly juxtaposed.  The first one was from a professional market to which I have never submitted before.  The rejection told me that the story made it past the first cut and went on to detail many of the good points of [...]

Writing update

With the first two months of 2010 in the record books, here is a brief update of my progress so far this year:   Jan Feb YTD Days worked  11  9  21 Words written  12,212  8,479  20,691 Stories completed  1  1  2 Stories submitted  2  1  3 Despite writing only 10 days in February, they [...]

A new post in the Adventures of the Little Zipper

People following our blog on the Adventures of the Little Zipper should head over there now to read about the latest developments.  But be warned:  this one’s a doozy.  If you don’t have access to the blog and would like to read it, send me and email and I’ll add you to the access list.

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 [...]

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