I'm still somewhat offline as I write this. The frequency of the power outages seems to be increasing. I'm not sure what to make of the weird behavior of the UPS. Whenever there's a glitch it won't let me power anything up off it for several hours. Exceedingly annoying. If it's not working shouldn't just not work? Since my UPS has of late been my ( Read more... )

Arthur C. Clarke passed away today at age 90. He along with E. Gary Gygax, who passed away earlier this month, was a significant influence on my childhood years. The first science fiction novels I really read were by Arthur C. Clarke.

I'm currently reading Adrift on the Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson and have The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge next up in my stack of books to read. I've found myself preferring short story anthologies to novels these days. I'm not really sure why but I just haven't had the patience of late to bother with full ( Read more... )

I recently became aware that Franz Joseph's Starfleet Technical Manual had recently been reprinted. Apparently so for the 40th anniversary of Star Trek. Initially this struck me as strange since I'd heard long ago that Roddenberry had repudiated its canonicity around the time TNG was starting out, but I guess with the big anniversary everything ( Read more... )