There was this woman at Starbucks the other day. She was pretty, about my age, short brown hair, black skirt, flats. Sitting at a table near the windows at the front of the store. She hadn’t ordered a drink, I noticed, a flagrant violation of the implicit Code of Starbucks Etiquette, which requires you to [...]
The goldinium rays of Solinium filtered falteringly in through the dirty stained-glass windows of the High Hall of Skullengard. Lord Gropnaw the All-Powerful sat resplendently upon his throne and looked gazingly down at the assembled throngs. He had ever been a handsome man, a perfect specimen of maleness, and many a minstrel had composed paeans [...]
I was eating a peach when the bomb blew up behind our building. It was a huge explosion, the loudest I’d heard in five years of civil war, and it knocked my senses so profoundly askew that the fear mushrooming in my mind didn’t quite know where to go, or how to reach me. So [...]
It has been pointed out to me that my recent post on geek boot camps was nasty, brutish, uncouth, and profane. I took this as a compliment, of course. It was also mentioned, however, that it was wincingly homophobic, and a little too savage to be funny. This I wasn’t too happy about. So I [...]
I made the mistake, six months ago, of ditching my staid, stolid boring wireless phone service with Verizon for one of the sexy/flashy phones offered by AT&T Wireless. This phone is a thing of beauty, a marvel: it has a 65K color display, a built-in camera, bluetooth, a calendar app, a cool icon-based UI, SMS, [...]
Clay has written an achingly beautiful entry about an achingly difficult loss. Read it here.
If you’ve ever taken a fiction writing class, anywhere on the planet, you’ve been told that the most important thing you can do in your work is show, not tell. It’s a perfect 10 on the hackneyed writing advice scale, more popular than the ever-popular “write what you know”, and beats “minimize adverbs” and “avoid [...]
So it turns out that the military is thinking about starting a selective service program for people with “special skills,” noncombat abilities that may come in handy in the event of war. One of the skill sets they’re looking for is — get this — computers. This led me to wonder how the army would [...]
If I had access to a time machine, I know exactly what I’d do with it. I’d travel forward in time until I found the oldest possible version of myself, a future me with just a couple of minutes left to live — sitting bent and alone at my window in a nursing home, or [...]
I discovered some new arcade games this weekend. In fact, I discovered lots and lots of new arcade games this weekend. Exactly twice as many as there were before, to be precise. It started with QBert. I’ve recently been playing a tiny, stripped-down version of this ancient game on my mobile phone. QBert is an [...]
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