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On Living in the Future

As I type these words, I’m listening to my friend Mary Robinette Kowal read from an updated version of her first novel, …

Shoptastic

Riddle me this. I’m in your store, I tell you I want to buy something. You say, “Great, I’ll send someone right …

So that just happened

Ah, Marketing ™. Have you no shame? Of course, the answer is no. I know this, because once upon a time I …

Two months is a long time

I’m not even going to try and summarize. Added categories which should catch just about everything to this post. So I guess …

Enter the land of Sadness

Tivo has died. Not cable, not cable service or the tuner card tivo uses to speak to them, but Tivo itself. Less …

18 and words to go

Fought and clawed my way through another 1100 words today, mostly dialog. I decided to start in on another story, since the …

Dear Universe…

Thanks. No, really. I mean it. What would a day be without more day? Yesterday’s 2.5 hours of sleep was awesome, especially …

All apped up

My thanks go out to Miki, who let me thumb, or rather, index finger, through her apps on Sunday. It never would …

Times like these

(ed: this piece composed on an 8GB, 1st gen iPod touch) It’s 4 AM. Again. I should be asleep. I should be …