I spent a few hours this morning getting the RSS feeds for my reading lists working. There is now a single feed for each list. The feeds are limited to books only; short items are excluded. I’ll probably include short items in the future. I’ll also eventually get around to adding a single master RSS…
I spent a few hours this morning getting the RSS feeds for my reading lists working. There is now a single feed for each list. The feeds are limited to books only; short items are excluded. I’ll probably include short items in the future. I’ll also eventually get around to adding a single master RSS…
I read about this in The Slush God’s blog. Here are the rules: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentense in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you…
I read about this in The Slush God’s blog. Here are the rules: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentense in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you…
I sat down at 9 PM to get started in earnest on my new story, “The Graveyard” shift, and I ended up writing the first two sections, 1,500 words in an hour and a half. And it felt pretty good. I’ve outlined something like 16 sections to the story, an assuming they are all roughtly…
I sat down at 9 PM to get started in earnest on my new story, “The Graveyard” shift, and I ended up writing the first two sections, 1,500 words in an hour and a half. And it felt pretty good. I’ve outlined something like 16 sections to the story, an assuming they are all roughtly…
One person’s junk is another person’s gems. I have my Grandfather’s old manual Royal typewriter and I love it. It’s a portable typewriter, and I remember playing with this thing when I was just a little kid. It needs to be cleaned up a bit and it needs a new ribbon, but one day, I…
One person’s junk is another person’s gems. I have my Grandfather’s old manual Royal typewriter and I love it. It’s a portable typewriter, and I remember playing with this thing when I was just a little kid. It needs to be cleaned up a bit and it needs a new ribbon, but one day, I…
A friend told me that the tradition of “siestas” in Europe may be waning, and I checked online, and sure enough that appears to be the case, at least in Spain. According to a BBC news article: But the country’s corporate culture now spurns the idea of daytime dozing as being unproductive, and the siesta…
A friend told me that the tradition of “siestas” in Europe may be waning, and I checked online, and sure enough that appears to be the case, at least in Spain. According to a BBC news article: But the country’s corporate culture now spurns the idea of daytime dozing as being unproductive, and the siesta…