I write things and talk about stuff. Sometimes I swim.
Have you ever linked a blog post to Facebook, then gone back and made some corrections, only to have the original text keep showing up? It’s because Facebook caches a copy of the page the first time you post it. Here is how to make Facebook refresh its cached copy, courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net: Go to Facebook’s […]
So, about a month ago, the Bluetooth Keyboard on my work iMac announced its batteries were low. I checked it and discovered it was sitting at 18%. I held off changing them out, thinking I could probably get another day or two out of the current set. As you can see, today’s reading, a FULL MONTH LATER shows […]
To say that Roger Zelazny’s Amber books were an influence on me is an understatement on the order of saying that Kim Kardashian is a little proud of her butt. “Nine Princes in Amber” was published in 1970. I stumbled on it soon after, in 1973 or 1974, and have returned to it about every […]
I was tagged by the great AR Miller to share seven lines from my next book. I in turn tagged the other Writing Lads, Lennox Randon and Rob Cline to do the same. This is from “Prisoner,” the sequel to “Traveler”. * * * The space had been furnished, after a fashion. There […]
For most of my life, I have been a closet nerd, quietly reading my books and watching my shows, thinking that I was pretty much the only one who pondered weighty topics like “When Obi-Wan told Luke he didn’t remember owning a droid, why didn’t Artoo start beeping ‘WTF, old man? How about all those […]
But it is one hell of a side benefit.
It’s been 24 hours since the iPhone 6+ arrived, and my feelings are mixed. It’s a beautiful phone, and surprisingly lightweight for its gargantuan size. I swear it’s twice as big as my iPhone 5. The Big Guy’s first outing was to function as a Keynote remote at a presentation I was giving. The big […]