We listen to a lot of Radio Paradise. This is an independently programmed, listener-funded internet station. It’s a beautiful piece of the internet as far as I’m concerned. We listen to it pretty much all weekend long–leaving our week-day mornings to local commercial radio to ensure we get any morning news about road conditions or […]
Read More ...Hitting the “Send” Button
There’s a time in every story when I think it’s just about the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen. Literally perfect. This is always immediately after I’ve written “The End” for the last time and I’m still awash in the sense of power that has brought me to that piece. Makes sense, eh? Unfortunately, there […]
Read More ...One Draft, FInished
It’s always nice when the Cards win. # Finished the “shitty first draft” of a story this morning. It’s got a few holes in it, but I powered through them to get to the end because I wanted to drive to the end of the story as I was feeling it. I’ll spend the next […]
Read More ...Optimistic Again
I’ve been working on a new short story, of course, and really struggling with the scope of the effort. I need it to fit into a short piece, but every idea I latch onto is … well … bigger. When I sit down to write on it, I feel like one of those guys in […]
Read More ...Step Update
Ok, so I’m sitting on the couch and watching Lisa walk and work. I would be, I suppose, walking and working, too … but I’m tired. I’m up over 30K steps already, and I’m just kinda feeling lazy. I don’t suppose being up until 1:00 last night watching the Cards lose in 5 overtimes had […]
Read More ...It’s the Three and the Shot Clock, Stupid
If you follow college basketball, you know one of the current flames being fanned these days is how scoring is down, and what the cause might just be. For me, this is just one more of those things that make we wonder about how people–and especially people who should know better– think. First, let’s get […]
Read More ...Waves of Insight?
This is apparently the time of picking up “old” pieces and working on them. If you’re following me semi-closely, you’ll know that the past two weeks have been spent developing “Primes” a 9,000 word story that grew out of three sentences I had written back in 2005 and that I found laying around untouched since. […]
Read More ...Freakonomics Takes on Copyright
Here’s an interesting podcast from Freakonomics about copyright. I find pretty much everything these guys look at to be interesting, even when the results themselves are not as compelling as others. I like that they at least make the attempt to be data-driven about things. In this case, I think the main takeaways are that […]
Read More ...Technical Productivity?
I was standing in the hallway today at work today, waiting for a meeting room to open, when my gaze happened upon one of those posters you see so often that epitomize to me exactly why corporate environments have such dorky reputations. It included a photo, a logo, and a definition. Here’s the definition as […]
Read More ...Treadmill Desk: Status Update
As I’ve noted in a few places, Lisa and I bought ourselves a pair of treadmill desks for our Christmas present. They arrived last week, and we started using them immediately. That means we’re moving into week two of our desktop treadmills, so I thought I would give you a bit of a report on […]
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