I’m approaching the halfway mark through Dangerous Visions (slowly, as usual for the summer, what with Everything Else going on), and I must say, I’m surprised. All of the stories are, of course, good. I didn’t really “get” Phil Farmers “Riders of the Purple Wage”. That was a tough one for me. But so far,…
Ken Jennings, of Jeopardy! fame is coming out with a book, Brainiacs, on the history of trivia buffs. The books is due out in a few months but even better is that he will be on a book tour that will take him to Arlington, Virginia. Maybe I can get a signed copy. Ken Jennings…
I try and tie up some loose ends before I stop working for the day, but today I might as well be herding kittens. I finally get out of the office at 4 PM and realize that I don’t have any water for the gym, so I pick up some water. I get to the…
I wake up 1 minute before the alarm goes off at 5:55 AM. Zeke is sitting on the bed, staring at me and I scratch his chin and then shut off the alarm before I have to hear it and turn on the light. Both Zeke and I squint through the brightness, I toss back…
Every so often, I get into a reading rut. I’ll start a number of books, but I just can’t seem to get through them. For someone who reads as much as I do, this is incredibly frustrating. For one thing, I have a rule that no book is allowed on my list unless I’ve finished…
I picked up Zeke from the vet as soon as I got home–and he is happy to be back. He’s patrolling the house to make sure everything is still in order. Once home, I forced myself to put down The Executioner’s Song long enough to get caught up on blog reading. I got through the…
It’s amazing how far behind you can get when you don’t have wireless access for three days. I left NYC this morning on the 10 AM Acela and got into the office at about 1 PM and immediately went into catch-up mode, first on work and then on the blog. I managed to get through…
Once again, the day was supposed to start out with Jason and I running in the Park and once again, we failed miserably. Instead, we went to a corner diner and had breakfast. (I saw someone there reading a copy of the Jeppeson Private Pilot Manual–the same edition I went through back in 1999/2000.) I…
I wasn’t going to do any writing this evening, what with being worried about Zeke and all, but I figured it would help to get my mind off things, so I turned off the Yankee game and wrote 4 more sections fo “Graveyard Shift”, about 1,900 words. The story now stands at 19,700 words, or…
I’m well into my mid-summer book-buying mode. Today, I picked up three more books: Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella (to replace a copy I’d given to Doug); Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke; and Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer (publisher…
Today is Janet Asimov’s (widow of Isaac Asimov) 80th birthday. I remembered it was her birthday today because she shares a birthday with science fiction and fantasy writer Piers Anthony. Earlier today, I did a search for Janet Asimov and found that she has just come out with a new book. The new book, put…
I took Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer up to Buddy Attic Lake in Greenbelt this morning and sat by the lakeside reading for about an hour. It was a little warm, but the air smelled good and was filled with the sounds of birds and bees and dragonflies. It was particularly pleasant whenever a cloud…