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 […]
Read More ...Instapaper: Worth a Try
I found this link to Instapaper in an article Vera Nazarian posted a few days back. Tried it, and it seems to work really well. A great add-on for e-readers if you’re so inclined to want to read longer stuff away from the PC. Highly recommended. # Down to the last ten pages of the […]
Read More ...You’ve Got a Lot of Books, or Welcome to Our Version of Bookshelf Porn
Good morning at the keyboard. Completed the first draft of what I’m calling the Golf Ball story, though there is no way in heck that title will remain. Also made my way through about the first third of it as a line-edit. I expect the back half will need a bit more of a face-lift […]
Read More ...Target Probably Knows More About Me Than I Do
Lisa and I were talking as we walked back from the Health Club this noontime. This fits our morning process on weekend days anymore, BTW, I write (or race) or whatever in the early morning, then we walk the mile and a half to the Health Club. We work out for an hour or so, […]
Read More ...Top 10 Things About Today
Top 10 things that made today great: 1 – Lisa made frapuccinos 2 – Wrote for several hours. Story pretty much done. I think I like it. [grin] 3 – Raced on the internet … set new Personal Best 4 – Received the Greatest FollowEver on Twitter. As far as I’m concerned, anyway. 5 – […]
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