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Memorial Day: Remembering Normandy

Posted in Life, Travel, Writing, tagged , , , on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Back in 2008, my Dad and I spent several days traveling in Europe. We made our way by train from London to Berlin, where Dad had a conference to attend, and I spent a few days touring the city before making my way south across Switzerland and then back west to England. Along the way, [...]

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Geek Moment: Going Fanboy on Jonathan Coulton

Posted in Life, tagged , on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Quick note: this weekend I got to see Jonathan Coulton perform. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, he’s a staple of geek culture: he wrote the ending song of the extremely popular video game Portal, and has written numerous songs, most of which involve robots, zombies, or mad scientists. Or various permutations of [...]

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Making Sense of the World, One Story at a Time

Posted in Life, Writing, tagged , , , , on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I haven’t blogged much lately, because I’ve been too busy following Neil Gaiman’s advice, particularly the first 27 seconds: The stories that I’ve been writing over the past two weeks aren’t the kind that get edited, proofread and sold to a magazine. No, I’ve been writing the messy kind, the stories that I can’t write [...]

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Halloween!

Posted in Life, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Because I’m a total geek, and also because it was an easy costume, for Halloween I went as my favorite author: Anyone got it? Anyone? …. Okay, it’s Neil Gaiman. The most amusing incorrect guesses were “John Travolta” and “The Fonz.” (In their defense, particularly the guy who guessed The Fonz, it was a very [...]

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Reactions to the Frog-in-a-Pepsi-Can Story

Posted in Life, tagged , , , on September 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’m a news junkie, and occasionally I notice a story I’d rather not have seen, like this one: FDA says residue is frog or toad; how did it get in Pepsi can? (Be sure to click on the link and get grossed out by the picture.) Anyway, the remains of a frog somehow got into [...]

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