Thought for the day: the thing that has me most worried about the health care debate in the US is not whether ObamaCare is terrible or whether the punishment for not buying insurance is a tax or not. It’s that the politicians and health care providers seem to have us exactly where they want us–arguing […]
Read More ...Author Archive: Ron Collins
People Staring at Computers
I read this a few days back off someone’s Twitter feed. I can’t remember who, so sorry I can’t attribute it properly. It’s long, of course. But it’s interesting on a lot of levels–anything having to do with privacy and “hackers” (meaning anything done with computers and a sufficiently creative mindset) and the secret service […]
Read More ...The Artifact?
Someday, a long time from now, an archaeologist is going to open up a dig and find an ink pen. It won’t work, of course. Unless it’s being depicted in a bad science fiction film. In that case it will be a magic pen complete with … well … let’s not give away my next […]
Read More ...Appearances
A few things are starting to shake out and I thought I might drop them here just because, well, because that’s what you do with these things, eh? BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY WRITER’S CONFERENCE: For anyone in the central/southern Indiana area, I’ll be a guest speaker at the Bartholomew County writer’s conference on Saturday, October 6. It’s […]
Read More ...Wife = Awesome
File this under: “My wife is Awesome” The set-up — I write all morning, and then we go work out together. Walk to the club, 45 minutes hard at the weights, walk back. We’re both pretty tired when we make lunch and veg out a bit eating it. About 1:30 or 2:00 I look over […]
Read More ...Lennon Story
Transposing this from somewhere else … There is a story out there that John Lennon was once asked what he had wanted to be when he grew up and he said “Happy.” The person then said that Lennon hadn’t understood the question, and Lennon replied that, no, the person who asked the question didn’t understand […]
Read More ...Serious as a Heart Attack
Now that the danger appears to be over and all seems okay, I think I need to apologize to Neil Clarke (@clarkesworld), as the data is clear it was a submission of my latest work that caused him to have his little incident at Readercon. I mean, how much more obvious can you get? I […]
Read More ...Real Relay
I saw this on Roy Gillett’s facebook page. Take a look. It’s a story about the Real Relay, an effort to actually run the relay course that the Olympic torch is taking. I think this is absolutely the greatest thing. It works on every level–it’s the epitome of the Olympic ideal in the sense that […]
Read More ...Reading the Right Way?
So, I’m finally getting around to reading “The Count of Monte Cristo,” which is a long damned book. Maybe three weeks in, and I’m about 10% done. Of course, I’m a grazing reader–and I read a lot of things all at once. For example, over these three weeks I’ve also read ten or twelve short […]
Read More ...Who Needs Batman When You’ve Got Robin?
“Oh, I forgot to tell you,” I said to Lisa. “For maybe the first time I’ve been saved by a copy editor who wasn’t you.” This drew her attention. Lisa is, you see, a remarkable copy editor, having made her living doing that for a number of years before turning to the darkside of Corporate […]
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