So I decided to make a new character in City of Heroes , and I thought, "Why not see if I can make Digger?" As it turns out, not s...

Mom-in-Law rented Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron last night for The Girl, who luuuvs cartoons as much as her old man. I had seen the tra...

I just found out that I have an extra five days' worth of vacation this year. Apparently, you get a third week in your fifth year. Odd t...

I had a dream last night that I was so eager for the next month's OSFW meeting that I showed up at the locale for the next meeting on th...

I had a strange experience today. I was thinking about somebody I met at a convention years ago, with whom I briefly stayed in touch. I'...

I found out last night that Conestoga here in Tulsa is going to be an official Baen's Universe event. I had hoped, considering David D...

"Shell" got a super-quick rejection from F&SF . 11 days round-trip by snail mail. It was a John Joseph Adams and not a Gordon ...

So I mentioned a while back in this post that I expected I might never sell "Frame by Frame," because I just couldn't find a ...

Well, not super red. Turns out the Product Key for the media center PC was on a sticker on the case all the time. But in my defense, it was ...

Got a rejection from The Town Drunk today for "In Deep." The editor said they found it "well-written and entertaining,...

And no, it's not the fact that I got elected VP of Oklahoma Science Fiction Writers last night (although it was about the last refuge I ...

Got up this morning and everything was blanketed with snow. I drove to work with big flakes swirling around my car. Come noon when I went ba...

To start, I digress into politics (which I usually try to avoid here) a little bit. I've kind of fallen off reading Lileks lately, but t...

I managed to not post Christmas stuff, cause I prefer to just get X-mas over and out of the way quietly. I also managed not to print any New...

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...