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Today is the launch of the Halo anthology Evolutions : Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, which includes my novella ‘Dirt.’
If you’re a Halo fan, you might want to check it out!
Gaming
Halo
Lucy Lou has a great webcomic about why we shouldn’t freak out about changes coming at us and just focus on the work itself.
I think its particularly good advice. I’m thinking about ten years ago, when I first got into the field, everyone was freaking out and spending energy on ...
Other
One of my favorite websites, WebWorkerDaily, featured a look at the negative s of being a freelancer today. Of course, they’re very much similar to the downsides of being a writer.
The three things:
Every Day Off Costs Money
It’s true. If you ever meet writers, they’re ...
Other
Kameron Hurley writes about getting those daily words written, and gives a hat nod to the idea of just aiming for a small number of words that I wrote about here .
It’s such a weird brain trick. When I first saw the idea, I sneered a little bit. I mean, c’mon, 100 words? WTF? But 100 words ...
Other
My stepdad, who was a total help in looking after Thalia while I had Calli xrayed and so forth, snapped this pic of me in the doctor’s office when she got her first breathing treatment to help with her congestion and coughing.
It cracks me up. Yes, my baby looks stoned and like ...
Other
Since last week the girls have been struck with some new ailments, including another bout of ear infections, leaving them coughing and home with me, who’s fighting off a cold of some sort as well.
After an exciting day Tuesday of Xrays and blood drawing, the girls are on antibiotics and ...
Other
Dr. Horrible
Recently I purchased a $234 solid state hard drive.
I’ve been waiting for almost three months to buy it.
Before that, I knew I didn’t have the wiggle room. I knew I wouldn’t have it for another month, unless one of a handful of promised windfalls due to fiction writing ...
Film
I’ve come to a conclusion that the internet is a scary and confusing place for a lot of people. A lot of these same people are apparently unintentionally secret admirers of e.e. cummings and often the CAPS key as well…
Other
Last night, after taking apart the bottom of my computer, slapping in a new hard drive, and putting it back together, I leaned back with satisfaction after reinstalling my operating system and hit restart.
The next words out of my mouth were something along the lines of ‘holy shit, ...
Other
After our esteemed houseguest left, I was looking forward to a slow weekend of catching up on things. Including playing a little Forza Motorsport and researching the purchase of an SSD hard drive, as on all my laptops my platter hard drives seem to die with alarming regularity, and I thought ...
Film
Emily Blunt
Kyle Cassidy is a pretty awesome dude. Of late his photography has been mentioned on Boing Boing (where I first encountered him), both his project “ Where I Write : Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces” and the pictures of fans at Montreal Worldcon , though he’s ...
Other
In my story in Metatropolis I surmised the rise of private security forces taking over police duty in Detroit in the near future. Sadly, this is yet another aspect of the story I wrote coming true right now.
Other
The table of contents and cover for Halo Evolutions is floating around the internet (I saw it listed at Kotaku this morning). It’s a collection of short stories all set in the Halo universe by a bunch of different authors.
The novella I wrote, Dirt, was something I threw ...
Gaming
Halo
Today is the last day Geocities will exist.
I got my start on Geocities. Back in 1998 I created a website for a poetry class that formatted my poetry for the class. We were offered extra credit if we did something ‘tech’ related that semester. I thought it would be cool if, at the ...
Other
Thalia wants to know, how was your weekend?
On Saturday I hung out with Em and the kids, and then on Sunday went out and saw the Columbus Crew play the New England Revolution (we lost, 1-0). Someone gave us free tickets at the gate, which was pretty cool, and I blew the extra on ...
