Monthly Archives: August 2006

Good Weekend

Rather than go to flea markets, Erica and I took a road trip upstate and drove around in Ulster County. I put about 250 miles on the truck and we had a great time. We stopped at a winery, bought champaign, got lost, had lunch in a vintage diner, bought some fancy desserts in a […]

Story Submitted

In late 2003, J and Tyree at SamsDot accepted a couple of my stories. This was a great high, and I started writing down all the ideas that I had been saving up for 20 or more years. In February of 2004, according to my work-in-progress spreadsheet, I started 31 stories. I eventually sold about […]

Hosting down again

Hostmerit has screwed me again. They have let the /tmp volume fill up. This impacts mySQL and the user logs. ScienceFictional.com, FreeNameAStar.com and a few other sites are down. My plan was to get rid of 1and1.com hosting. Now, I am slowly moving my websites back there. Hosting, no matter who handles it, is a […]

Editorial, Flash, and the Macbre

I put up a couple of more flash stories at ScienceFictional.com last week and this morning published an editorial on terrorism there. I wanted to put the editorial here, but it stretched out to a 1000 words which is too much for this blog. I have a partially written flash called The Shunned Well that […]

TREK XI

There is actually a Star Trek XI in the works. I hope it will be interesting. I never saw the last ST movie. It didn’t seem worth paying the ten bucks to see it in the theaters and I haven’t noticed it on the TV, yet. I was not about to pay $10 to see […]

Weird Craigslist ad

John (Johnny B. Blog) sent me this. I told him that he should start a blog of nothing but weird Craigslist ads. This is right up there! Temp. HANDICAPPED Englishman, Intl., Psychic Poker Player needs YOU! “Temporarily Physically Challenged Psychic Radio Show Host,( emeraldone.com/sebastian) and International Poker Tournament Player and 9yr old VEGETARIAN son and […]

Lost Math

I graduated from college with 81 credits in Math. Why so much? It was the only subject where I could consistantly get an A without studying. Around 1976, when my math skills were still hot, I had the idea that the universe was expanding equally in all places – that hubble’s constant was indeed constant […]

Knocked off another story

“Well, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold” I ghosted a story about a New Orleans funeral during hurricane Katrina. 1,000 words is just not enough. I had to end it practically in mid-sentence. Science Fictional – A Journal of Science Fiction