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Wrinkles in time – or, why didn’t Buck Rogers get grey hair?
Once upon a time in fiction, time travel was a one-way trip forward. The protagonist passed out, fell asleep, or drank something, and the next time he opened his eyes, it was the future. Buck Rogers,...
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The Internet’s Pronoun Problem
Eleven years ago, someone put a gun to my stomach and took away, among other things, my wallet, my phone, and my gradebook. I actually asked the mugger to drop the gradebook*. (*Before grades were...
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The Thing
Something happened to me last week that I’m finding strikingly difficult to write about. photo by Phoebe North In simple terms, I went to a writers’ conference. In larger terms, I found my people....
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Don’t be (more) evil
There hasn’t been a tech post in a while. Granted, this only marginally qualifies… Watching last week’s roller coaster response to Apple’s iAuthor app, and this week’s gaining response to Google’s...
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The Submission Cycle: Schrodinger’s Story
Maybe you have one of these. Something you’ve sent out to the great beyond, and it’s been out there for a while. Maybe it’s not even a story. Maybe it’s a résumé. Or a request for information. Or a...
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Your Newly Enhanced Experience
What is it about social media that requires constant redesigns of the interface? Is it a desire to stay ‘fresh’? Or is it the need to feel like you are once again the new kid on the block, when, in...
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For the Greater Good
The Internet and one of its many, many kittens. Wikimedia Commons image. Photo Credit: Sasan Geranmehr Ok, some Sunday morning musing for you: How do we as a culture determine what is ‘good’? In any...
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The Next Big Thing
Pages from one of DaVinci’s notebooks, which is much better organized and more clearly written than my notebooks. Also, darn cool. A.C. Wise tagged me in her Next Big Thing blog post and told me to...
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Cloudy, with a Chance of Algorithm
Photo credit: by jshj on Flickr (CC/Attribution) We just received a package. I know, because I heard the thud. I’m old enough to remember when a delivery person rang your doorbell and asked you to sign...
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Gratitude: friends & monsters
Writing and freelancing can be lonely territory. It gets very quiet. Quiet is the kind of monster that wants to keep me with it and feed me junk food. Then a ‘ping’ on chat, a text, or a random...
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Algorithms Love You and Want You to Be Better!
Baxter, from Rethink Robots Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on disruptive technology given by the director of Singularity University, Salim Ismail, his colleague David Roberts, and...
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Bear & Underwood Giveaways! A few words about Storium!
Earlier this week, Cooking the Books took a road trip - Michael R. Underwood and I piled everything in the car and headed out for new frontiers… We set up camp at GeekMom to talk about Mike’s latest...
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Proof of Concept: Flying!
Ah. Flying. Who knew? Jumping into a wind tunnel = hilarious fun and some ridiculous photos. Things I learned that will benefit the novels I’m working on and probably some short stories as well: In a...
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Ad Astra Cookbook Part of Humble Bundle to Support Charity!
From Cat Rambo and Fran Wilde: We are delighted to share that Ad Astra: The 50th Anniversary SFWA Cookbook is part of a tremendous Humble Bundle now through December 9, 2015. Even better, this Humble...
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