We have successfully survived Las Vegas. It was a really interesting trip. Sheri had a great birthday. We got to visit family and friends but something felt off. Vegas is hurting. You can see signs of it everywhere. I have never seen so many people begging for money. Homeless people were everywhere. We watched in [...]
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Celebrity = Still Human
February 13, 2012
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I remember meeting my first celebrity when I was in high school or at least the first person I thought was a celebrity. Being the good little book worm geek it was David Brin. Mr. Brin is the author of one of my favorite books of all time, Startide Rising. Startide Rising was also the [...]
Read more London At Last
February 6, 2012
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Several years ago Sheri and I had decided we wanted to go to London. The plan died a fiery death when we couldn’t afford the plane tickets. We tried again the following year and were in the heavy planning stage. We looked for hotels and different areas of the U.K. we wanted to see. That [...]
Read more Editing Burn Out
January 27, 2012
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Alright it is time to come clean. I burned myself out again. Way too many candles going at the same time. After the completion of Incarnators I had finished back to back novels with no breaks. It has really bogged my editing down. You throw in the fact I was a little lost in my [...]
Read more The Agony of Defeat
January 22, 2012
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As George Martin likes to say after the NY Giants lose, life is meaningless. I remember as a kid watching The Wide World of Sports and watching the skier wipe out as the announcer talked about the agony of defeat. For sports fans this is so true. Things can be so good at one moment [...]
Read more Alex Smith More Than A Manager
January 16, 2012
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I am a big football fan and when I say big I mean geeky big. When I was ten years old I can remember having an argument with the man who lived next door about why Ray Guy was the most important player on the Raiders. I then overwhelmed him with stats about Guy’s ability [...]
Read more Kindle In The Classroom
January 12, 2012
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I recently read an article in the New York Times about teachers in Idaho resisting their states push of technology into their classrooms. A lot of the article made it seem like once again teachers were afraid of being replaced by a computer and/or losing money to technology which could have been spent on salaries. [...]
Read more Shame On You, Mr. President
January 5, 2012
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I have taken a long sabbatical away from writing about politics. I had gotten to a point where everything was just driving me insane thinking about it. With my weight gain, my blood pressure was way up and I was sure I was about to blow a gasket at any point. Well, now that the [...]
Read more My Brain is a Jumble
January 1, 2012
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My brain tends to be all over the place. A big jumble of thoughts and ideas. I have to work really hard to keep my concentration and focus on the tasks which I have set out for myself. Right now I have only two big ones which need to get done. I have to finish [...]
Read more The Biggest Loser
December 23, 2011
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I know I have been writing about my weight loss a lot lately. I hope it hasn’t been incredibly boring for my regular readers. The truth is I just do better when I hold myself accountable. Writing about it and sharing my struggles makes me stay the course when I am sometimes at my lowest. [...]
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Anybody with even a hint of 80's geek love needs to read this book. A clever book about everything I loved as a kid thrown into a contest to rule the virtual world.
Have decided to reread all Vonnegut books in the order of publication. I still love this book. I was amazed at how relevant it still is. Haven't read it since which school and I am sure I got a lot more out of it now.
A very good book (if a little dry). Very hard to read though. I learned a lot of history I was unaware of and most of it depressed me. I know it is easy to look back and ask, "how did the world let it happen?" but I still wonder.
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