Worldcon is on this week. SF geeks are running around to parties, attending lectures, singing Filk songs (that’s right – at worldcon you don’t sing folk songs, you sing Filk songs) and dressing up like Xena Warrior Princess. Anyone wearing a Star Trek uniform can get lucky. I wanted to go to Worldcon this year, […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: August 2011
T-Shirt based on my favorite SF Novel
Thursday, August 18, 2011
If you don’t know what I want for Christmas. Wintermute. Tessier-Ashpool AI R&D Dept.
8 Years Blogging
Thursday, August 18, 2011
On August 18, 2003 I tried out Blogger.com. Since then I’ve moved around a bit, but I still have the blog and I am still posting. The site has 2,232 posts and 1,251 comments in 8 years. Yesterday there were 940 visitors looking at 1,863 pages. I have no idea who they were. I registered […]
Click Clack, Click Clack
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
I spent 20 minutes in the conference room waiting for a meeting that did not happen. It’s pretty rude when someone schedules a meeting and then doesn’t show or even let me know that they aren’t coming. I spent the time writing a flash fiction piece called Click Clack, Click Clack on the conference room […]
Night Train
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
In the 1950s my Mom and Dad went down to NYC to see Louis Prima and Keely Smith. I find this difficult to understand because my parents were not avant-guarde, did not really like new music and seldom went out to even local restaurants. They were far from the beatnik image of Louis and Keely. […]
SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 8/17/11
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
SF Signal listed my 10 SF laws in their tidbits page today and I have received a few hundred hits from it. I can only hope this results in book sales. I did quite well from the Reddit hits yesterday. SF Signal is the most legitimate SF blog out there (unlike the illegitimate i09), in […]