The First One

At first, I thought it was spam. The subject line read, “E-Mail Acceptance Letter”, after all, which sounded suspiciously like one of those “Come help me get this one million dollars that the Nigerian government owes me” scams, or something like that. I’ve been getting way too much spam.

Then I thought that perhaps it [...]

NoNaNoWriMo and Cheese

All through October I wondered if I could pull it off again. NaNoWriMo. National Novel-Wriiting Month. Last year at this time I sat down and wrote 50,000+ words in one month; most of those words were crap, of course. I’ve given the pile to a couple of people, but no one has been able to [...]

People Are Stupid Everywhere… Including Me

I’ve been traveling about Santa Clara these past couple of weeks, training surly state workers on how to use the software that was developed by the Benthic Creatures parent company. Now, I’ve spent years and years and years — since junior high school, at least, a good twenty years — playing with computers and software [...]