I hardly post here anymore, and I'm over on FaceBook now anyway, so I'll be closing down the public portion of this journal. My future posts will be either private ones, or about writing. I'm going to create a filter called "WRITER'S BLOCK," where I'll make semi-private posts about science-fiction and mystery writing I intend to begin in the near ( Read more... )

I'll be returning from my business trip to Kansas City tomorrow morning. I've been a way for a week, grading AP Calculus Exams eight hours a day, and working on a $2.5-M grant in the evenings. I squeeked in time to go out for really good barbecue a few times, played in a poker tournament (didn't cash), worked out once and went for a swim once ( Read more... )

ATTENTION COMPUTER FOLKSI have a game for you. Suppose you landed a mini-grant to do math research, and must buy computing capability for a research assistant, and after a few months he turns in his work and the hardware to you, and the technology is all yours after that. Help me out here ( Read more... )

I've been feeling very manly lately. Grrrr ( Read more... )

I had a good morning and aftertoon (so far) with Mikey -- it's my one-or-twice-a-week day home with him. I took him out with me to get pastries and some flowers for Mommy. I cleaned a little and have meat sauce bubbling on the stove. I took Mikey for a walk around most of Somerset mall, just to get out and exercise and let me see some things. ( Read more... )

I'm reporting in from Boca Raton, FL ... I'm attending the 40th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing. It's cold down here -- cold for Florida anyway. Might only get up to 68 Fahrenheit today. Brrr ( Read more... )

Time to think ... let alone time to write ... what a rare treat ( Read more... )

When I was little, I was told that standard lie that when I grew up, I could be President of the United States of America. Anybody could be president if they worked hard enough, because we live in a free country and have a democracy. So eat your broccoli and study and all that ( Read more... )

I love being a father ( Read more... )

It's been a week now since mandabanana and I became proud parents of an extremely gassy future honor student. We've figured how how to sneak in sleep now and then, we've developed all new ways to organize our household messes, and we've learned more about random bodily functions than we ever cared to know ( Read more... )