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Apparently today is National Tree Day in Australia. Now, I’ve never been to Australia (or, indeed, to the Southern Hemisphere) but a post on five novels featuring trees on Brona’s Books inspired me to contribute my own. In her 5 Books...
Yesterday, Anitra and I were flying back to Tampa from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, and I noticed that most of the ads flashing on the billboard screen overlooking our departure lounge were for AI companies or products. There were two...
at this age, its more like "what are you planning to do?" or "What are you doing with that" as in my degree. That i got almost two years ago now. I don't know! I will never know. I wanted to be a teacher, then a doctor, then I got older....
This is not largely for dungeon rumors, but the sort of thing that people might talk about happening one town over, or on the other side of the kingdom. Basically all rumors are twisted in the telling (with the truth in parentheticals)....
I’ll be in Seattle this next week for writer business, but at 7PM this Thursday, 30 July, I’ll be at Sirena Gelato in Kirkland, Washington.1 Feel free to join me.
Scott posted a text excerpt to which I replied in part: I think you both need the inward turn in which you learn about yourself and the outward turn toward the world in which you fulfill your purpose. The first must come before the...
[1968]Obscure moody and broody garage psych from another one and done group from MichiganYou gotta love the intense mandolin and misanthropic sentiments delivered with tormented desperation by singer Bob Glese and those mournful dirge-y...
I’m instinctively appalled by news like this, but I’m also wondering, to what extent is the content inside these rare books made effectively useless to humanity, mainly due to the amount of gatekeeping that access to these kinds of...
It’s well known that you can convert the base 16 (hex) representation of an integer to the base 2 (binary) representation by simply converting each digit from hex to binary. For example, CAFEhex = 1100 1010 1111 1110two I imagine it’s...
It’s that man again, or some of his progeny, infecting the world with their nightmares. Lovecraft’s Brood is a story collection edited by Ellen Datlow, a kind of follow-up to Lovecraft’s Monsters, although the new book is a more...
The poster from this past weekend’s Hilo Orchid Show.
Beginning of a new week, and as usual, I’ll mark it with a Fantasy with Friends post! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is on witches in fantasy: What are some interesting witches...
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series. Lately I've been washing the dishes before I have my coffee, regardless of whether I need a clean cup or not. Sometimes I purposely leave the dirty pots I need for dinner in the sink so that I...
I was going to write a post about how I started and stuck with an exercise routine, but I have fallen off of it for a few weeks now. I was doing pretty well keeping up with it for about a month or two, and I felt the benefits: feeling...
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod-bay doors captures the...