Rob Sawyer’s The Terminal Experiment is turning out to be one of those books that’s hard to put down. I was about 85 pages through the book when I woke up this morning, and before starting work, I managed to get through nearly another 80 pages! If it keeps up at this pace, I’ll finish…
Work has been so busy that I’m behind the curve on my blog reading. I’ve got to carve out 20 minutes tomorrow and get caught up. It was a beautiful day today, with highs in the 60s, but I was indoors all day and couldn’t enjoy it, except for the drive home from the metro…
I finished Odyssey by Jack McDevitt this morning on the way into work. It was an enjoyable read, but between that book and joe_haldeman‘s The Accidental Time Machine, I’m sticking with Joe’s book as my choice for the Nebula this year. Jack’s book has got everything you want in a space adventure, but I don’t…
The last two days at work have been really busy. In fact, I took work home with me this evening again, and just finished up (having spent 2 hours straight trying to get SQL server to talk to Oracle via linked servers. Stupid TNSNAMES!) I was at Kelly’s last night. We had planned on making…
I’ve spend the last couple of nights revamping my website and my reading list pages. They are finally at a point where I have once again made them public. So what has changed? Website Transformed to simple HTML Reorganized content Brought content up-to-date Reading List Complete rewrite using PHP and MySQL Simple HTML Dynamic queries…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I still have some catching up to do in terms of Nebula reading. I’m starting with novels. I braved the weather and ran across the street to pick up copies of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Jack McDevitt’s Odyssey. I’ll try and race through both in…
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Another productive day in the office today. Made good progress on several fronts. I feel kind of like I’m in a groove there. On the other hand, I still haven’t done any writing in a while now, nor have I managed to get back to the gym, so my groove is limited. Made dinner reservations…
…back in an hour.
Although it’s Super Tuesday just about everyone today, not so for Maryland. Our primary is next week and I got my notice in the mail today. A week won’t change my mind, and neither will the results of what happens today. I’m voting for Mitt Romney all the way. Just kidding! Seriously though, since Edwards…
I often wonder why I find history and science so fascinating. With science, it’s what Richard Feynman called “the pleasure of finding things out”. We learn how the universe around us evolved and how it all works. With history, I suppose, it’s similar, except instead of learning how the universe works, we learn how people…
Friday night was a weird one. I was exhausted from both a long night, preparing for the big rollout, followed by a long day, of second and third winds to keep going throughout the day. When I got to Kelly’s after work, I was literally running on fumes. We decided to stay in for dinner.…