Not that anyone reading this would be opinionated <pause role=”for laughter”/> but I’d appreciate any feedback on this cover art for Ritchie Boss, Private Investigator Manager (which you can read in full here under a Creative Commons license). I haven’t yet decided on the details, and thus welcome feedback in this regard as well, but this will [...]
Last year, a colleague of mine noticed this contest involving a near-future timeline, program source code, and a Vinge-ian flavor, and said ‘you really ought to enter something here. The end result: I did, and my story took the top prize. It will appear later this year as the final chapter in the book Finding [...]
I had some kind of breakdown and cleaned my desk and office. Family says “wow” when they walk in now. Cleaning extends to metaphor too, as I get ready to dive into one last edit of this novel. Prepration takes many forms. Burnout (and the allure of younger, shinier projects) is a serious risk. I’ve [...]
As unlikely as this sounds, my desk is even messier than last month. In front of me I have an iPhone, on top of some papers, on top of a book, on top of one of the girl’s hand-mirrors, on top of a file folder with more papers, on top of an Amazon receipt, on [...]
I’m delighted to announce: my story Ritchie Boss: Private Investigator Manager took first place in the Singular Source contest and will be published as the final chapter in the book Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse due out later in 2012. The story will be released under a Creative Commons license and will [...]
Brand new flash fiction up now at Leodegraunce. It will be there for only seven days, then it’s gone, so check it out. If you like this sort of thing, also be sure to read my free story Large Feline Collider in EPUB format.
Let’s just get this out of the way: my desk, actually BOTH of my desks making up an L-configuration, look like something from an episode of Hoarders. There are layers to the mess. Some of the layers have layers. But it’s been productive. Projects: I was pretty hung-up on an idea project. I had in [...]
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, [...]