I started my second class at the Writer’s Center yesterday, a workshop on Science Fiction and Fantasy. I came in very excited and very anxious, as I have with every writing class I’ve ever taken, and left crestfallen and a little depressed. Why crestfallen? Because not many people signed up. There are only six aspiring [...]
It looks like someone has figured out how to run Linux on an Xbox. Those crazy Linux peoples. One day, someone somewhere is going to decide to host Linux on a toaster. Which means you’d have to wait forever for your toaster to boot up, and then hunt around for and compile the right kernel [...]
The Tyranny of Crisis There’s an old joke that’s been around forever that goes something like this: “Question: How do you approach a sleeping lion? Answer: Very slowly.” This are several versions of this old chestnut, and it’s been adapted to a host of different situations. Here’s one permutation: “Question: How do you take away [...]
The Christmas Llama I have a problem with boredom; which is to say I get bored very easily; which is to say I have the attention span of an ADD spider monkey whose Ritalin has been spiked with PCP. I fear boredom almost as much as I fear death, so whenever I go anywhere that [...]
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