A couple weeks ago, I ended up on an unexpected last-minute trip to Dublin, Ireland (my client literally emailed me on Thursday evening to say “hey, can you be at the airport on Sunday?”). On the way back from Dublin, I spent a week or so in London visiting Eunice, my lovely co-author.

Our novel London Under Veil, about a young British infosec ( Read more... )

One of the things I generally try to do is leave the world in a slightly better state than I found it. Of course, I’m not always perfect at that, but on the whole I think it’s a good goal to shoot for.

To that end, I recently started participating in BOINC again.

If you haven’t heard of it, BOINC is a system where nonprofit science research teams ( Read more... )

Her name was Wendy.

I met her my first year of university in Sarasota, Florida, at a tiny college that is now at war with Ron Desantis called New College. It wasn't my first year of uni-I’d been to two other universities by that point already, and would ultimately end up getting my degree from yet another-but it was my first year there.

She played ( Read more... )

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, as every fule know.

What we don't often think about is this is really true only at the equator, and even there it's only entirely true during the solstices. For people anywhere else, or at any other time, the sun actually rises in the northeast and sets in the northwest (if you're in the southern ( Read more... )

As the result of a lengthy and somewhat improbable series of events, I'm in Nome, Alaska working on another book ( Read more... )

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So for those of you who've been living under a rock for the last couple of days: Yesterday, something amazing happened.

No, I don't mean the US soccer Olympic team beating Canada by one point in a dramatic overtime goal. I mean something really amazing. Something mind-blowing.We took a one-ton nuclear-powered robot rover and threw it 350,000,000 ( Read more... )

By this point in our trip, as we lingered in St. Louis, I believed I had seen the most awesome thing ever. Perhaps not the most awesome thing that could exist, mind you; but certainly the most awesome thing that did exist ( Read more... )

A bit more than a year ago, a very good friend of mine, edwardmartiniii, started a project to write a new horror short story every week for a year. The result appeared in a blog he called Tales from the BlinkspaceHe is, and I say this without reservation, one of the best horror writers I've ever read. His stories are quirky, unpredictable, occasionally ( Read more... )

It's time for another massive collection of links, so I can close some of my browser windows and reclaim a whole bunch of RAM on this computer. Today's list is heavy on sex, tech, and humor, making it different from any other linky-links post in exactly zero ways, I suppose.

Sex

From New Scientist magazine, we have the article Sex on the brain: ( Read more... )