irst and foremost, it is daylight saving time, and not daylight savings time as I both see and hear it referred to by so many people. There is a difference, slight at it may be. It is not a bank account into which you put your accumulated savings of daylight (and earn an utterly meaningless amount of daylight…
echnically, this book arrived in the mail yesterday, but I ran out of time to record it as such, so I am posting it today. Courtesy of TOR books, Quintessence by David Walton, which is coming out on March 19, according to the accompanying press release:
‘ve got a lot on my plate at the moment, and I am working hard to clear the decks as much as possible before my Internet vacation, which begins one week from tomorrow. Here are a few of the things I’m working on this weekend. Finishing my read of Robert J. Sawyer’s Red Planet Blues, his…
finished reading Hearts in Atlantis while on my walk today. I’ve already written about my thoughts on the first story in the book, “The Low Men in Yellow Coats.” This story, and the last story in the book are the two stories upon which the movie was rather loosely based. I was sure that it was…
or a few years, I’ve struggled on and off to find a good time to do my fiction-writing. Early in the morning before anyone else was awake always seemed to be ideal, but it was also generally out of reach. Early in the morning for me would have to be around 4am. More often than…
his evening at dinner, the Little Man managed to illustrate a mathematical concept I first learned of in 12th grade pre-calculus: Zeno’s Paradox. The Little Man had broccoli on his plate, which he generally enjoys. He consumed all of the crowns of broccoli, save one. For the last one he decided to do something different.…
ast August, I took a weeklong Internet Vacation. I stayed away from email, the web, Twitter, Facebook, pretty much the whole nine yards for an entire week, and it was wonderful. It’s not that I don’t love the social interactions. It’s just that sometimes, you can get too much of a good thing and need…
‘m reading Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King’s collection of 5 related stories of kids who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. Yesterday I finished the first of the stories, “The Low Men in Yellow Coats.” It is this story upon which the movie Hearts in Atlantis was based. My memories of the movie are sketchy which…
e have a big winter storm passing through at the moment. Estimates have been any where from a few inches to a foot of snow. At about 3:30 am, the Federal Government announced that it would be closed today, which means Kelly doesn’t have to go into the office today. My office follows what the…
his week’s topic was a reader suggestion. Alton Blom emailed me to ask me how I got about titling my notes in Evernote and suggested it might be an interesting topic for a post–and I agree. I’ve seen a lot of discussion in the forums and other places on how people go about titling their…