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I have no way of researching this, but I think I might just be the first science fiction author with his own official, registered tartan.

For those of you who have no idea what that means, a tartan is a plaid pattern, each unique and distinct (and registered with the Scottish ( Read more... )

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I got back yesterday from five days in Disneyland. It’s changed a bit since I was there last. Star Tours has been completely re-done (the old pilots now sit like taxidermy trophies in crates in the queuing area). But what hasn’t changed is that after the ride, you get dumped ( Read more... )

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I was a smart kid. Nobody doubted that I was intelligent. I got A’s on my tests (though I frequently got lower grades on my report cards, since I was smart enough to get A’s on my tests without doing all - or any - of the homework). I remembered what I had been taught, had ( Read more... )

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I have an uncomfortable relationship with St. Patrick’s Day. ( Read the rest of this entry » )

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It’s winter break. And that means I’m working on things that I wish I’d had time to do all semester. In this case, that means I’m installing bookshelves and getting my collection onto shelves. You may wonder what this has to do with writing. But the value of getting organized ( Read more... )

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So, yesterday in the office, I took advantage of some down time to finish writing a story. Things were unusually quiet this week, both at work and with my classes, so I had a rare window for personal stuff. It had been a marathon writing effort. I culled research from over a ( Read more... )

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I didn’t ask to be part of an oppressed minority group. You could make the argument that I chose it, because I discovered that no matter how sincere one is in wishing to change one’s sexual orientation, it’s not possible to do so, and I decided the mental health issues ( Read more... )