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Exploration! Sponsored by…
The modern face of exploration. And marketing. Talk about corporate synergies. Recently, an underwater archaeological team uncovered famed privateer Henry Morgan’s flagship, the Satisfaction, near...
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It’s a contest! Follow me on Twitter and win!
Follow me on Twitter and win! (Button not included.) That’s right, I’m doing a contest. As part of my NaNoWriMo participation, anyone who’s following me on Twitter by midnight (EST) on Nov. 30, 2011,...
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Trick out your iPhone, Star Wars style
“It’s taking forever to download Angry Birds on this thing.” Let’s face it. I’m a geek. Lord of the Rings (books and films), Star Trek, Firefly…pick one and I will go to town. But I have a real soft...
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Civilian Reader interview, plus more events!
Stefan over at Civilian Reader has an eclectic mix of genre stuff on his site, all of which is fun and awesome. He has great taste, which makes me doubly excited to be interviewed there today. There’s...
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Angry raccoon meets walking plant…I’m in!
I’m not one to post random bits of pop-culture flotsam and jetsam on the blog, but this…this…this is too much fun to resist. This is the trailer for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie, coming out...
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It’s Saturday night, my daughter has a sleepover, and this is what we do
So my 9-year-old daughter is having a sleepover with a friend tonight, and just as I finished work on The Venusian Gambit for the evening, I was asked to participate in an impromptu carnival. Because I...
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“Her Majesty’s Elopus”– A GISHWHES short story
I’ve been slowly getting back to the writing life after several weeks away, and enjoyed a rather unusual jump-start this past week, courtesy of an even more unusual source. I received an e-mail from...
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The strange dissonance of having one’s email hacked
I was driving up to the Catskills for an overnight with the family when, apparently, my email started spewing spam. I didn’t get into range of a wi-fi until several minutes passed, at which time I was...
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April Foolery: The Silmarillion gets punk’d on Skiffy & Fanty
When Shaun Duke over at Skiffy & Fanty asked me to do an April Fool’s Day guest blog, I admit I had a hard time coming up with something that would be both funny and (remotely) plausible, with the...
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What I did this weekend
Well, the most visible and impressive thing was this, which took two hours in the summer heat and was very, very hard. (Actually, it was surprisingly not bad and easier than the instructions made it...
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