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 […]
Read More ...What if You’re the Shoes?
I’ve now averaged 18,222 steps a day over the past year and a half or so (per my nifty Virgin Health Miles program counter, at least). For the past month it’s been 25,138. So, yeah. That’s good. Unless, of course, you happen to be a pair of shoes. If that’s the case, this is what […]
Read More ...Exquisite
I’ve been circling this story for three days now, circling like a prize-fighter sizing up his foe. I’m looking for the right opening, throwing a pretend jab every now and again just to try out his defenses. I did some math on it yesterday, and thought about the situation overall. What this story is really […]
Read More ...Peer Pressure and Role Modeling
When you’re trying to understand people as a whole, it’s important to understand that on average we will not tell you what we really think or feel. Sometimes we won’t tell you because we don’t trust you, or for whatever reason we just don’t think it’s any of your danged business. I’m like that. But […]
Read More ...“The Collector” to Appear in Elemental Masters Anthology
It looks like the heat wave is breaking a bit. Only supposed to get to 87 today by the paper. I actually went outside to work in the yard for a half-hour yesterday. Sweated like a pig. # The great news today is that Mercedes Lackey and John Helfers have accepted my short story “The […]
Read More ...Tina
Celebrating the awesome All-Metro VolleyCard career of my cousin (x-times removed? … heck I dunno my family tree stuff). Or is she my niece? I should know that, eh? What I do know is that she was a heckuva volleyball player, so that should save me for a bit. [grin]. Share Me
Read More ...People Are Strange
There is an experiment in pricing where you offer people an $8 bottle of wine and a $15 bottle of wine. In this scenario, the majority of people buy the $8 bottle. But add a $50 bottle of wine to the list and you find a majority of people by the $15 bottle. People are […]
Read More ...Story Recommendation: Burial Detail
Kris Rusch has a practice of putting up a free story every week, something she calls “Free Fiction Monday.” It’s always something interesting, because, well, because she’s a heckuva writer. She puts up science fiction, and fantasy, and romance. Short stories, and novel snippets. Whatever. There’s only a few days left on this one, but […]
Read More ...Higgs, Good Luck Charm, & 100 Riffs
The reports are coming in. They’ve found something that might be the Higgs boson–the “God Particle.” This is really pretty exciting, or at least pretty damned interesting. All by itself it doesn’t mean much yet, of course. In fact, what they have right now would seem to open up a lot more questions than it […]
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