I’ve got a new flash fiction piece out in the wild. Do check it out: it’s a quick read, and it’s lighthearted while maintaining a serious bent. Download Large Feline Collider in EPUB format. Here’s the opening line: “Basically, it accelerates cats around the ring at high speed and collides them head-on to see what [...]
Been getting crushed by work recently. Food on desk: Xylitol mints, and some packaged tea in the corner. That’s it. Papers on desk: Sticky notes, Togo’s receipt with miscellaneous notes written on the back, several letter-size sheets with notes, post oral surgery “instructions for care of the mouth”, Netflix envelope (unopened), some kind of mail-in registration card, [...]
From the statistics gathered by Goodreads, here’s everything I rated five stars (which to me means will-reread-again) in 2011: A Memory of Wind, Rachel Swirsky The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, Rudy Rucker Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny Story Engineering, [...]
I don’t believe in new years resolutions (unless it involves buying a new monitor at an after-the-holidays sale) [see what I did there?]. If you’re going to exercise more, or eat better, or anything else, just do it. Don’t wait for an arbitrary number to change to a another arbitrary number. That said, a calendar [...]
Deep into editing of Devising, and the prime real estate on my desk is covered with papers related to that: a heavily marked up outline and notes from my alpha reader. I stumbled upon a neat trick for editing. Normally I edit front-to-back, which works well for flow and sentence-to-paragraph-level issues. But for this pass, [...]
After an epic cleaning session last month, things were pretty rough for a while. And by rough, I mean tidy on the desk. But now the iPad is back on my desk, to play Pandora. The new webapp is cool, but it uses so much memory over time that it chokes my system. (Symptoms = [...]
The desk: getting very messy, even by my standards. It may take an archaeologist to dig through all the layers. But I don’t care because: I have another story sale! It will appear in the WTF Anthology (which is promising to live up to its name) in print and ebook toward the end of this [...]
Teas have proliferated on my desk. In the back corner, I have Two kinds of yerba mate Good Earth Lipton Vanilla Caramel Truffle Dawson’s Raspberry Cream Caramel (not actually tea, mostly barley) Some packets of brown sugar ginger tea mix Other than that, I have Spry xylitol Berryblast Mints Entertainer’s Secret throat spray Vitamin C packets One [...]
So, I’m taking another crack at brewing a Sumerian beer. And the first step, is making a Sumerian bread called bappir. Here’s the recipe: 24oz organic barley flour 16oz warm water 8oz grape nuts cereal (flour, malted barley flour, salt, yeast) 8oz honey generous amount of freshly ground coriander generous amount of freshly ground cardamom [...]
Now official; check it out. My story The Knuth Number has been published by On The Premises issue #14 with the theme “Numbers, numbers, numbers”. Editor Tarl Roger Kudrick was a breeze to work with, and I’m thrilled to have made my first sale in a fiction market. Tonight we celebrate (by writing more).