Two freaking years, man, two years (my two year freelanceiversary)

May 9th 2008 at 3:51 pm

Well over two years ago I made everyone excited, but nervous (and raised some relative’s eyebrows), by writing this blog entry:
On Feb. 3rd I shared that my job position was being cut. The job search has not been so hot, and most of the interesting jobs would require a big move, with Emily having to […]

Ask Tobias a question

May 7th 2008 at 1:52 pm

I’m jamming really hard on the outline (and almost done) for what I’m publicly calling Project X, which I can’t reveal anything about until later this month, and so I’m not reading RSS feeds or paying too close attention to email until that’s taken care of.
Since my blogging won’t be too inspired, I’ll open the […]

Interesting

May 6th 2008 at 3:11 am

For a long time I’ve ‘deleted’ emails, but my webserver has kept them as I specified no permanent deleting of the emails, but just moving them to the trash. But one of the computers I IMAP to my webserver with has a ‘delete message in trash if over a month old’ preference setting turned on, […]

Ergo typito sum

May 5th 2008 at 2:28 pm

Or something like that. I took latin, I know that was a horrible non-translation funny, but if you’re not a latin nut, it’s funny in relation to the following. Maybe.
Since 1999 I’ve owned a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, one of those split thingeys with the rounded hump in the middle. They’re not made as much anymore, […]

Weekends…

May 3rd 2008 at 12:02 pm

Emily, as I sit down at the bill table, as she’s cooking up something for later today. “Wouldn’t you rather play some Grand Theft Auto while I’m cooking.”
Coolest. Wife. Evar.

April IGMS book reviews up

May 1st 2008 at 5:05 pm

My April book selections can be found at the Intergalactic Medicine Show. Again, I laud Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams:
Implied Spaces has been the treat of the month for me. Flushed with a reader’s high just after finishing the last page I mentioned on my blog that it had been, so far, my favorite […]

The attack of literacy

May 1st 2008 at 3:11 pm

So today my good friend Josh swung by and surprised me/gave me this shirt as I was working at the local coffee shop:

It’s too cool. It’s from threadless, and I’d seen him blog it up last night and was going to order my own copy!
If you want a copy, here’s the link (threadless shirts, once […]

Nebulations

April 28th 2008 at 6:09 pm

Well, Michael Chabon won, but it’s always just plain nifty to be nominated. Really!
I was horribly sick for most of the ceremony, and tired enough that I missed a great deal of it by being unable to focus and because I was struggling with little bouts of micro-sleep. But I had perked afterwards enough that […]

I can haz uniform back?

April 23rd 2008 at 2:24 pm

After over two weeks at the cleaners, maybe more, my leather jacket finally came back! Woo hoo. Now I can look like me again at conventions… except… it’s Austin, it’ll be hot.
There better be damn good air conditioning. The jacket’s all new and shiny again. My second skin, partner in crime.
Couple years ago I was […]

Westerfeld on a Zeppellin

April 22nd 2008 at 1:26 pm

Scott takes pictures and blogs up what it was like to take a ride in a Zeppelin.
Can I just say how jealous I am right now?