For about an hour today one of my tech blog posts was listed on the front page of YCombinator.com – Hacker news. It was good for about 1200 unique hits, although very few stayed to browse other articles. This is all very exciting since the tech blog usually normally gets 50 or so visitors a […]
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: April 2010
Creepy
Thursday, April 22, 2010
A little flash creepy cellular automata for those who don’t have enough trouble falling asleep.
MONDO 2000
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Many years ago I bought a copy of a magazine called Reality Hackers because it had an interview with William Gibson. I subscribed and Reality Hackers immediately folded. The magazine transferred my subscription to a series of similar magazines including one called Mondo 2000. I still think they owe me some issues but after 20 […]
I sent two stories out today
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
I got lucky and all three meetings that I had today were canceled. I don’t have any deadlines for the next few weeks and I did not feel like writing java code today. I took my story Carnival of Blood and rewrote the beginning so it would “grab” a little better and shipped it off. […]
In the future everyone will have a bar code tattoo
Sunday, April 18, 2010
In the future everyone will have a bar code tattoo and I have chosen mine. I saw this on Bob Margolin’s Facebook page. I have to start playing some Blues Harmonica again. It’s been too long since I’ve been to a jam.
Got a Screenplay?
Friday, April 16, 2010
ShadowScript is a blog that reviews screenplays. I have been reading it for a couple of months now, although I usually just read the first two or three paragraphs to get a feel for what the author thinks of a script. The stories behind the script are often more interesting than the script itself. Everyone […]
DumpsterWorld.com
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
My brothers and I invented the term Dumpster Diving. I even wrote a story about brothers who find an alien artifact while dumpster diving. Now there is a whole site devoted to dumpster diving, although the site includes some darker uses for the things that you might find in a dumpster, including blackmail, identity theft, […]