So, after all my talk the other week about netbooks and such things, I broke down and got a new computer. Which wasn’t exactly needful, but it’s quite nice, and I think it’ll feature rather heavily in m posts this week. Sorry if this is too far afield for some. I hope suspect that it’ll make sense in the end.

Rather than wait until one of the ( Read more... )

In lieu of an actual essay on this quasi-holiday, I have a funny exchange from earlier in the week. Continue to have a good holiday, and I’ll see you on Monday.

tycho: so I was thinking about getting an old(er) ThinkPad x41 tablet and linuxifying it, so I’d have a linux portable and we’d have another computer around here because most of the ( Read more... )

So it’s Thanksgiving today. (So good holiday to you all in blog land!) And in honor of the holiday, my post today will be brief, and I’ll be taking the day off of Critical Futures as well.

I don’t really have to say much about the holiday itself, as the big holiday’s go, it’s probably my favorite. Though I think I speak for many of my fellow non- ( Read more... )

I’ve had one hell of a week, and at least somewhat understandably, I haven’t been writing very much this past week. Which is really odd for me because I’m always writing. While the cause of this vacation from writing was acute and understandable, this has led me to think about the role of my writing in my day to day life, and while it’s depressing ( Read more... )

Over the past week or two, I’ve been working on a number of side projects that I’ve started to realize as a new and interesting project in and of themselves.

The first project is that I’ve been working on (re)designing a website with/for my friend Scott, who is a composer/voice actor/podcaster type. While he has a lot of HTML skills he’s never ( Read more... )

I haven’t written one of these journal posts in a long time and I think it’s long overdue.

On the whole I think things in the land of tycho have been really good of late. I’m writing, I’m learning and settling into a new computer and text editor, I’m working (perhaps not enough, but nonetheless), I’m working on an exciting academic project, life ( Read more... )

So I said I would, in honor of NaNoWriMo, write about writing on tychoish a bit during the month of November. So here I am. I thought for the first in this occasional series, I’d touch on the project that I’m currently working on.

I’m working on a long novel/novella that fits loosely into my interest series of “historiographical science fiction” ( Read more... )

Dear Readers,

I’m-or my alter-ego 1-is going to be at Drupal Camp Chicago on the 24th and 25th of October, baring an unforeseen catastrophe.

So this presents several possibilities:

1. 
   You are already going to Drupal Camp Chicago and want to hang out with me or talk me into presenting something with you. To this, I say rock on.
   
2. 
   You are or will happen ( Read more... )

In my fair city this week and last there’s been a lot of Scottish music. There’s a woman who’s been active in the local Scottish community (who knew?) for years, and she’s a retired music teacher and she does a program each year where she brings in top notch Scottish musicians to teach in local schools. It’s pretty cool, and it means that a lot of ( Read more... )

Hey folks,

Just a quick note. I’m going to take a two day break from posting stories to Critical Futures at the end of this week.

The reasons for this are twofold. First and probably most importantly, I need a break. In the last three months, I’ve posted about 28,000 words of fiction (nearly all of it my own) and even though much of it has been ( Read more... )