The Little Man and Kelly let me sleep in this morning and didn’t come waking me up until 8:30am! That was a pleasant little Father’s Day present. Due to the fact that the Little Man’s birthday falls just before Father’s Day, this turns out to be my third Father’s Day, as opposed to my second.…
I took advantage of the quiet day today (I was giving a “day off” for Father’s Day) in order to do some stuff around the house. One of the things I’d been wanting to do for some time now is retire my iMac. With the iPad, the new home sharing technology, and a fix for…
I was reading an article in the July 2011 Scientific American this weekend called “The Limits of Intelligence” by Douglas Fox and came across a paragraph with an interesting conclusion: Do the laws of thermodynamics, then, impose a limit on neuron-based intelligence, one that applies universally, whether in birds, primates, porpoises, or praying mantises? This…
Reading George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire books have got me thinking about the types of novel groupings we have in science fiction and the recent (or perhaps, persistent) trends thereof. It seems to me there are three types of novel groupings in science fiction and fantasy: Standalone novels Novel series Novel…
Okay, enough is enough. It’s time for me to stop stalling and get back to writing. It’s time to put away the excuses and just get started again. I’ve been dragging this out long enough. It seems to me that I have been looking for excuses to avoid writing: I’ve been busy at work. (Well,…
Last night I finished reading George R. R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings, the second book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. ¬†I gave Game of Thrones a 5-star rating. Five stars is a hard rating to come by and a hard rating to match and while I didn’t give A Clash of…
I hate when I do something and realize, as I do it, that it is a mistake. I can do this sometimes, as I imagine we all do, but I recently had an incident which made me feel like pond scum. It started with a bath. The Little Man was taking a bath with Kelly…
I recently received a promotion in the day job. I am now a senior application developer. Upon getting this promotion, one of the things I did was to update LinkedIn, and the tagline there. Before, it read: “Science Fiction Writer and Application Developer” now it reads: “Science Fiction Writer and Senior Application Developer”. But I…