Riddle me this Batman: Why am I feeling a strong desire to spend several hundred dollars I don’t have, and a day or two of vacation, to lend my votes (or voice) in favor of continuing the Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine, Best Fan Writer and Best Fan Artist?

As I’ve said before, I don’t expect to ever be nominated for a Hugo Award.  I don’t publish a ( Read more... )

Here it is Saturday night, and I’ve not posted much about what I’ve been doing at Comic-Con.  I’ve posted a couple of things to Google+, Facebook, Twitter and one to LiveJournal without hitting my WordPress site. {For those reading this on one of those, I usually cross-post things from my blog to all of the above, and often post the same - or very ( Read more... )

I may be coming down with a with a terminal case of con runners disease.  I've been looking at the function space in the San Diego Convention Center a bit too closely this weekend.

It could be terminal, since Tara would kill me if I were to think too seriously about a Worldcon bid.

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I'm tired. Yesterday, I drove up to Reno and drove back today (538 miles each way - 8:48 travel time according to Google Maps ( Read more... )

Last night, I saw Third Day at the San Diego County Fair.  This was a good concert, and the third time I’ve seen Third Day live.

Previously, I saw them in December 2007 in Hoffman Estates during their Christmas tour, and two years ago at the San Diego County Fair - that time as part of a mini-festival that also featured Mercy Me, John Mark ( Read more... )

Somewhere in my Internet journeys while compiling or waiting for tests to complete, I came across The Language Construction Kit, which is actually more of a how-to overview of creating a language.  This has got me thinking that maybe I should have my own languages for my untitled fantasy story which I’ve been working on off and on (mostly off) over ( Read more... )

I just recalled another Billion Dollar Project:

A movie adaptation of John Scalzi’s Agent to the Stars staring Wil Wheaton.

While it probably wasn’t (at least not 100%) written with that in mind, but the name character/narrator comes across as just the kind of role that Wheaton plays a lot these days.  (OK, having listened to the audio book as read ( Read more... )

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With the Power Ball lottery pushing $0.5Billion*, I decided to share some of my “billion dollar projects,” that is projects that I might undertake if I had a billion or more dollars that I could throw at some project without regard to their ability to actually make any money.  These aren’t necessarily projects that would loose money, but I wouldn’t ( Read more... )

For some time, I’ve had some thoughts about learning a new instrument.

Off and on from the 4th grade through college, I played Alto Sax in various bands.  (I ended up dropping band the last year at each school: part way through my 5th and 8th grade years, moving from Marching/Symphonic Band to Concert Band my 11th grade year, and then no band class ( Read more... )