Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke with passion about what’s become of the United States space program, and why, on a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. Here’s the clip: When Tyson claims, “We stopped dreaming,” he refers to the shift in the United States’ culture away from both imagining... Read more...
A Free and Open Source New Year (mostly)
(Yeah, I know, I rarely post any more. I’ll talk about that in another post. Hardy har har!) I just had another brief flirtation with Ubuntu, on both my laptop and desktop. It’s still not quite a keeper for me, but I did discover that very nearly every cool, free,... Read more...
The Future of Five Minute Memoir
Due to lack of interest and initiative on the part of contributors and lack of initiative when it comes to promotion on the part of, well, me, I have put Five Minute Memoir on hiatus. All seven episodes — let’s call it “season one” — remain available. If anyone is... Read more...
Consolidation
Do you know how many web sites I have? Close to a dozen. About half a dozen are active. Last year, my business card had more words on it than some pieces of flash fiction, trying to fit all that stuff on there. It was a little out of hand.... Read more...
The Great Operating System Waffle, Part The Nth.
I'm the most wishy-washy Linux user in the universe. For the umteenth time, I'm... Read more...
Couldn’t Glean the Scene
Tried to do some writing today... I like to blast a scene per weekday if at all possible, which usually means a thousand to fifteen hundred words, sometimes more, sometimes less. Today, it barely happened. Read more...
Upgraded
It’s always a good idea to let a little time go by before you upgrade anything, especially your personal site’s content management system. Plus, I’m scared to death to screw up my database. All the same, I went and upgraded this site to Word Press 2.0.whatever. And I think it... Read more...
My Saturday
This morning, I had a swollen left lymph node in my throat, a headache, and stiff shoulders. Ick. Went to do my five hours of not-hard-at-all time at the not-a-day-job, got home, futzed with the television which would not play the DVD (a recurring problem that I thought was solved), got that figured out, took two Advil, started to watch Steamboy... fell asleep. Read more...
Grindstone, Nose… Nose, Grindstone
I spent a couple of hours today with a project management app at zohocreator.com, working out a set of goals and deadlines for my next novel, "Light of the Outsider." Read more...
Overwhelmed
I need to organize the files on my computer(s)... my documents, I mean. My docs, and gifs, and jpgs, oh my. Read more...