Archive for June, 2011
Barbados
June 30th 2011 at 9:44 am
After a long delayed plane due to mechanical difficulties we got into Barbados last night. The local organizer for AnimeKon Expo, Omar, was nice enough to come pick us up at 1am after we landed. This is the obligatory hotel room window picture, and my first glimpse of the island really. But Karen Lord promises [...]
Halfway to Barbados
June 29th 2011 at 2:10 pm
Sitting here at the Miami airport, waiting for the next leg of my flight down to Barbados for AnimeKon Expo. We got in at 10 this morning to Miami, and the flight down leaves just before 6, so I paid for a day pass to the AA Admiral’s Club just to have a place to [...]
Some steampunky goodness
June 28th 2011 at 3:11 pm
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk will be coming out in April. The cover and table of contents has been revealed over at Sean Wallace’s blog. Quite a line up of writers, and it will include my short story The People’s Machine.
Prepping for travel
June 27th 2011 at 8:54 pm
I’m trying to get as much done as possible before I head out the door this week to travel to Barbados for AnimeKon Expo, where I’ll be one of the Featured Guests, along with the executive editor of DC Comics Eddie Berganza, and the Technical Direct of Industrial Lights and Magic. It’s a big honor, [...]
The life of an AOL content slave
June 23rd 2011 at 1:29 pm
Oliver Miller talks about writing for a section of AOL’s TV content site: You’d think it’d be fun, wouldn’t you? Writing about “The Simpsons” and such for money. It’s every slacker’s dream job. And I was making $35,000! I remember that I crossed a certain threshold, soon after I got my new job: I stopped [...]
A brief history of the corporation
June 22nd 2011 at 12:18 pm
Over at Futurismic, I found this amazing link to a very different lens to view history through: that of the corporation and its influence on world politics. There was no need for backroom subterfuge. It was all out in the open because the corporation was such a new beast, nobody really understood the dangers it [...]
The true cost of gas
June 21st 2011 at 10:58 am
It’s not so much that I view gasoline as bad in and of itself. I love driving sports cars. However, if you don’t properly price actions in a market economy, it creates bad distortions. And one thing we aren’t doing is pricing right. Well, and then there’s the fact that I think that plastic is [...]
Unbundled Mondays: my short story Io, Robot is now live
June 20th 2011 at 2:30 pm
My latest single shot short story is available: A robot explorer on another world is forced to grapple with a life-or-death decision about what is human and what is not… Io, Robot is now available at Barnes and Noble | Amazon Kindle | Directly from me Other single shot short stories you can buy as [...]
Raw honey
June 18th 2011 at 1:32 pm
Today at the farmer’s market one of the local organic-farmer types pitched us hard on the fact that their local honey was raw, not pasteurized like all the honey evil corporations made, that cooked the good stuff out of it. Which might be true, but I wonder why commercial honey claims to be dangerous for [...]
Halo: The Cole Protocol fan art
June 18th 2011 at 1:09 pm
Someone pointed out to me this cool piece of fan art on Deviant Art. It’s of Adriana-111 from Halo: The Cole Protocol.
