Thanks to a nap, a solid night of sleep and modern pharmaceuticals, I feel almost human today. Since they've been accumulating, let's have some links:

1) WaPo: Trump Camp Built Up Robust DC Policy Shop, Let It Die Of Neglect I am shocked, shocked I tell you to learn that Donald Trump would hire people and then not actually pay them ( Read more... )

There are many, many contenders for stupidest thing on the Internet. One of the main contenders for the title this week was an article entitled how to talk to a woman who's wearing headphones. Now, the obvious answer for anybody who has two brain cells to rub together is "you don't, unless there's some kind of fire, flood or other emergency ( Read more... )

Links:

A) Committing crime while white.

B) "My heart has changed," or appealing to the better angels of our nature.

C) "What exactly would using this label [radical Islam] accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to trying to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is ( Read more... )

Posting will continue to be light and sporadic. I have three books being released in June, so edits have consumed my free time. That's bad for blogging but good for the finished product.

ETA: Have a funny. (Source)


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I am not a fan of April Fools. Most such jokes hit me before I'm fully caffeinated. Trust me - very few things amuse me before caffeine. Herewith, a few (I hope) non-foolish thoughts.

Rabid PuppiesThe nominating phase of Hugo voting is over, so now we await the counting. Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius At Large over on his site is crowing about ( Read more... )

Herewith, some thoughts on various subjects.

Writing

Elizabeth Bear, a prolific writer, is wise on finding your voice in writing and in life.

Doing ThingsFor the past decade, I was Fundraising Czar for my Rotary club. The slightly humorous title aside, that meant I was responsible for raising the $25,000 to $35,000 a year our club spent on ( Read more... )

A Thought

It’s always better to practice on a fake hand grenade than a live one.

(Words to live by...)

Interesting Article with a Cool Picture

The F-104 - not quite the right stuff.


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There's a wonderful piece of dialog which I thought was in the movie Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Wikipedia tells me the movie starred (and thus the dialog was delivered by) Gert Frobe, I could have sworn it was Curt Jurgens ( Read more... )

Although today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is a bank holiday, I'm at work. We have various network maintenance needs that need to be done when people aren't using the network, so we're doing that today. Considering it's sub-zero outside, it's either sit inside at work or sit inside at home ( Read more... )

Over my vacation, I consumed a fair number of books. Herewith, links to books and my reviews thereof:

1) An anthology of female-written SF which I enjoyed: The Dark Beyond the Stars. Methinks all stories are Hugo-eligible for 2016.

2) I am very much not a fan of Vox Day, but I am a fan of milSF. There Will Be War Vol X. Vox let Jerry ( Read more... )