A Night in the Lonesome October by the late Roger Zelazny and illustrated by Gahan Wilson. Out of print, but a fun read to distract you a bit from the political season ( Read more... )

Your result for The Steampunk Archetype Test...
The Aetherist Bodger

9 Swashbuckling Engineer, 38 Crazy Clockwork Tinkerer, 40 Charming Noble, 8 Roguish Pirate, 0 Mechanical Fian and 42 Aetherist Bodger!


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A few years ago I was in London and visited the Tower Bridge. They had a display about a movie that did some filming recently involving the Tower Bridge ( Read more... )

For those of you too young to remember that whole Cold War thing, here is a Public Service Announcement concerning the Olympics:

It is pretty much expected that the Communist countries will cheat early and often.

We now return you to what ever reality you were comfortably enjoying.

Out shopping yesterday, and I grabbed an empty cart in the parking to use ( Read more... )

I quoted Malcolm X in a tech blog.

I've seen a couple of movies in the theater lately (Hellboy II, Dark Knight), but it is the previews I want to talk about ( Read more... )

I got my 7 galleon pin in the mail today from the New England Red Cross blood services ( Read more... )

I've been using LJ, Blogger and Flickr for quite a while. I was using blogger before Google bought it and Flickr before Yahoo gobbled it up.

Well, I'm a long time geek, so I'm trying new stuff. I've started a tech blog on Wordpress and posting photos at Smugmug.

I started out as a Day Planner user. I went digital with my first PDA, a HP 200LX palm top. I switched to Palm OS devices when I started working at 3Com. That was just after 3Com purchased Palm's parent company and all the geeks there had one.

For a straight PDA, you can't beat a Palm OS device, IMNSHO, of course. The interface is clean, easy ( Read more... )