This alleged UFO over the Chinese city Hangzhou forced officials to shut down air traffic and divert flights. Damn UFOs are as bad as the weather.
Read MoreDione and Titan
One of the latest photos from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn, with the moons Dione in the foreground and Titan in the background. The image may look grayed out, but it was taken in visible light — that’s what the view of the moons really look like from Cassini’s location. Beautiful. Via PopSci.com.
Read MoreBook Review: Hell House by Richard Matheson
You know you’re reading a great horror novel when you have to keep your eyes open in the shower — despite the shampoo stinging the hell out of them — so you can be sure there’s no rotting-corpse-ghost peeking in at you. Hell House by Richard Matheson is such a novel. Billionaire Rudolph Deutsch is […]
Read MoreBook Review: The Furies of Calderon
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that my first Jim Butcher novel is not a Dresden Files book, but The Furies of Calderon, the first in his epic fantasy Codex Alera series. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but when you think Jim Butcher, you think Harry Dresden. So why start with Codex Alera? Because […]
Read MoreHeroes of Might and Magic IV: Oldie but a goodie
I just reloaded Heroes of Might and Magic IV on my laptop. I haven’t played this game in years, and it’s every bit as awesome as I remembered. I should be writing, but sometimes you just gotta take time out of your busy life to kill zombies.
Read More2012: Disaster Porn
I finally saw 2012 on pay-per-view last week only because my wife was on call at the hospital that night and there was nothing on TV. My overall impression is it wasn’t a complete waste of 2 1/2 hours, but I’m glad I didn’t spend $10 to see it in a movie theater. The first […]
Read MoreBook Review: Conventions of War by Walter Jon Williams
Conventions of War is the third and final novel in Walter Jon Williams’ Dread Empire’s Fall series. Lady Caroline Sula leads the guerrilla war against the rebellious Naxids on the Empire’s occupied capital world of Zanshaa, while Lord Gareth Martinez commands a battleship in the Fleet task force waging a war of attrition on the […]
Read MoreBest something-or-other for Writers
It’s Friday and it’s time for my “Best something-or-other” post! Well, okay, this is my first one, but it’ll be a series. Trust me. Why not start off with something for all you other writers out there? These are links to sites and information I use regularly, and I’ve found them very helpful to my […]
Read MoreBook Review: Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
When you pick up a Brandon Sanderson novel, you can be assured of an epic fantasy that does not follow the usual fantasy tropes, yet gives you everything you love about epic fantasy in the first place. Well of Ascension is no different. The second book in the Mistborn trilogy starts a year after the […]
Read MoreThe Cold War
I haven’t had a full-blown, phlegm-spewing, throat-scouring cold in over eight months, so I was overdue for an invasion. My immune system is strained, but holding up valiantly against the Virus Horde. Unfortunately the Horde is now entrenched in my sinuses. They force me to use up all the Puffs in the house, and they […]
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