I don’t make it easy to contact me. My email is often hidden, missing or obfuscated. I still get about 300 spam messages a day in my gmail spam folder, which I have to check just in case. I just checked my spam and found a message from someone who likes my Craigslist telecommute job […]
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: September 2008
Poker at John's place
Thursday, September 18, 2008
John moved up to Nyack from the city. He’s down on lower Depew ave. Here is his new apartment. $1,000 a month – ouch. That’s Robert on the porch. Robert is growing a Santa Clause beard. John is often confused with a hung over David Duchovny. He has two very fat cats named Bogey and […]
H. Beam Piper – Space Vikings
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Space Vikings was serialized in Analog in 1962-63. Piper committed suicide not long afterwards. Piper, as far as I can tell, was not considered to be more than a hack writer in his own time, but has recently risen to the ranks of a truly unique and respected writer from the golden age. He wrote […]
Stella hired for Gossip Girl
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
My poker buddy’s daughter, the actress Stella Maeve, has been cast on a TV show. This is NOT a show I’ll be watching soon, but it is a great thing for her. Stella has been doing commercials, episodes of Law and Order, and lately a bunch of movies. I’ve known her since she was knee […]
McAfee VirusScan Plus
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Four or five times a year one of my friends will contract a computer virus and ask me about virus protection. I’ve tried the open source virus scans, but I much prefer Symantec or McAfee. You can usually pick up either of these very cheaply because they make their money by selling a subscription. The […]
Direct Investing — or DRIPs
Monday, September 15, 2008
Baron Phillipe Rothschild once said that the time to buy was “when there is blood in the streets.” Well, then it is time to buy. Jim was asking about investing in small quantities of stock. DRIPS, or direct reinvestment plans, are plans run by companies that allow their stockholders to invest in stock directly without […]
Using Blogger Following with a Classic Blog
Monday, September 15, 2008
I don’t use the new Blogger templates because I have worked hard creating my own templates and I host them on my own domains and not blogspot.com. Blogger has some interesting widgets that are not available to me. One of them, Blogger Following, is an interesting social sort of device that allows readers to follow […]
Is anyone out there?
Monday, September 15, 2008
The Internet is quiet – too quite. No sales, no email, no blog entries, no twittering, no interesting news other than Lehman’s demise and Patricia N-H’s heart attack. This is a little frightening. Speaking of Lehman’s bankruptcy. This is a major disaster and marks yet another drop in the economy. All my stocks are down […]