Granted, I stayed up late to watch the premier of The Sopranos and Entourage, even though I had to be up at 4:20 AM and even though I was TiVoing the shows. I am a supplicant to instant gratification, what can I say. But something went terribly wrong in my efforts to actually fall asleep…
Earlier in the week, in my writing about writing post, I mentioned the fact that in 6th grade, I had to write an autobiography. This afternoon, while doing ever more spring cleaning, I found a copy of it. It’s not terribly long and it’s very amusing to me and I simply can’t resist quoting it…
If I am not mistaken, Norm and Vicky are due back from their honeymoon today. Welcome back, kids! I look forward to hearing all about it, and seeing lots of pictures from the wedding and the honeymoon!
I have never been to a science fiction convention before, but there are two happening relatively close by in the next couple of months, and I’m very tempted to attend at least part of each of them, if I can so arrange my schedule to do so. Balticon 41 is taking place over Memorial Day…
I slept in this morning, not getting out of bed until just after 9 AM. I ran up to IHOP for breakfast, stopping at Petco on the way home because I needed more litter and dry food for Zeke. Once home, I did some more spring cleaning. I cleaned out old files in the office,…
A-Rod got $250 million over 10 years. This guy got $400 million for 2006 alone!
The Everything Test There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all. Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test, or…
I have a few questions for all my fellow readers out there about how you go about reading something? I ask these questions mainly to see if I am the same as everyone else or if I am very different? 1. When reading something that has footnotes, do you (a) read the footnote as soon…
Any wannabe science fiction writer, like myself, who reads the chapters in Isaac Asimov’s autobiography, In Memory Yet Green, describing his first story submissions in 1938 and his first story sales can fail to become excited and envious. In past years, I read those chapters and imagined myself selling my first stories. It was like…
I decided to treat myself to a steak dinner tonight. I grabbed my copy of In Memory Yet Green and headed over to the Outback Steakhouse, anticipating a long wait. There was no wait. I was seated at once. I ordered a tall beer, had a salad, steak fillet, fries, and I even ordered the…