I was thinking of writing about Bob Denver today, but I think I'll put it off for later. Eric Flint sent me a contract and said the chec...

This weekend, I'm going to be installing a media center PC with a wireless router to allow both computers to share the broadband connect...

Saw this link over at RealityCarnival . What an amazing idea. I haven't read enough of it to judge whether it's at all possible, le...

I know that in one sense this is a silly question, but I seriously wonder. The original Godzilla was a sober, scary film, but by the mid-70...

I worked late several nights last week. One night, I stopped for supper on the way home at Waffle House , one of the few places open that ti...

A few days ago, I posted a bit about Christmas with OSFW . And two days ago, I posted the fragment I wrote for this year's contest. But...

I finally got to see King Kong a couple of nights ago (I say "finally" both because it took me almost a week to get to the theat...

TIMESTORM Frank Dyson had long dreamed of commanding the first mission to fly faster than light, but he had never dreamed that it would star...

As promised (or threatened), here are some pics that will ilustrate some of what I spoke of in my comments about City of Heroes . I hope th...

Oklahoma Science Fiction Writers had their annual Christmas do last night, and as usual, it was a lot of fun. Besides the usual mingling and...

Had our company Christmas party last week, and I won a camera, so I may have to start posting pics here like a normal person. Funny thing: I...

Back in the 70's, a decade of so many odd fads that went nowhere fast, Pyramid Power was briefly in vogue. Someone had noted that gra...

So I worked an early shift a couple of Tuesdays ago, and I was struck by how heavy traffic seemed to be compared to the Wednesday through Su...

So, the post-mortem: Maybe a thousand words progress between my last post and the end of the month. Final score: 28,850-ish. So on the one h...

The first week, I finished slightly ahead. The second week, I finished slightly behind, like a thousand words or so. The third week... Well,...

I've finished the first act of my NaNoWriMo project. I'm slightly ahead on word count, but I expect to fall behind again tomorrow be...

I thought I would get worked way ahead over the weekend, but instead I actually dropped behind on saturday and had to scramble to catch up y...

This is a trifle worrying. I'm between 5,000 and 6,000 words in, basically right on schedule, and it's mostly talking heads. I just ...

So here it is, the commencement of this thing I've spent three weeks fantasizing about. I went to a book signing last night by some frie...

The weirdest thing about the whole Astounding deal is that I was online, with comments from the board being sent to my email. So I received...