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Blog year in review
Mary Robinette Kowal gave me an idea for a quick review of my blog for the past year. The idea is to take the first sentence of the first post of each month. So here goes: This article from … Continue reading
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Twelve Upgrades to Your Vocabulary
Jessica Hagy is back at it again, and comes out swinging for 2013 with an article titled Verbal Resolutions: 12 Upgrades to Your Vocabulary For the New Year. One highlight: August: Practice your acceptance speech. In the mirror, while getting … Continue reading
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Baubles and trinkets
It should come as a surprise to no one that I am an odd duck. But I can’t imagine I’m so unusual, just a different shade of unusual. For example, my work group was recently reassigned to a different team … Continue reading
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Another sci-fi year
When I was young years like 2013 was the stuff of science fiction. A lot could happen in 30+ years! Why, we could be sending Roy Schieder and John Lithgow to Jupiter by then. So it’s strange to be living … Continue reading
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Closing out the year’s reading
My brother gave me the idea of tracking my reading for the year, so this year I’ve been keeping a list (over there to the right) of all the books I’ve read this year, plus the ones I didn’t finish … Continue reading
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A Full discussion on gun control
A lot of arguments on both sides over gun control are long on hooey, but short of facts. If you’re up for a long, thorough post on the matter, read An opinion on gun control, by Larry Correia, who is … Continue reading
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Reformed Luddism
Considering I’ve made my living from the technology world it might seem strange, but I happen to agree with this guy. Technology is great, and can allow you to do quite a lot. It can also keep you from doing … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas
Depending on what time of the day you are reading this I must question what you’re doing here. If it’s still Christmas morning, then get back to your family and friends! This will wait. If it’s Christmas evening then…okay. You’ve … Continue reading
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Rediscovering The Nylons
No, Bill, I am not rediscovering women’s hosiery. I’m talking about the male acapella group. I downloaded some Nylons songs recently and put them on my player–and promptly forgot about it. Several days went by, and I found myself on … Continue reading
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Then and Now
My kids have been asking me to read them my novel, now that it’s finished. Because I wanted to read through it again myself, and didn’t want to figure out how to have two bookmarks in my editor, I put … Continue reading
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