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68 today. About this place in each decade there are a couple of years where it's not immediately obvious to me which birthday I'm having. 2020 being what it is and will likely continue to be, I have had no trouble remembering that this is my 68th birthday.

A lot of this is the virus, which from the demographic stats ( Read more... )

Whoa. I'm about to do something I've never done before--and yes, I have drunk both whisky and black coffee--that makes me a hair uncomfortable: I'm about to recommend a book I haven't even finished yet. And therby hangs a tale.

Back in 1991 or 1992, I noticed that a new Niven/Pournelle book ( Read more... )

Well, that won't be the title of a Top 10 song, fersure. However, it's true: I went to my first SF convention in five years. It's called LibertyCon. It was in Chattanooga, Tennesee, thereby taking my list of un-visited states down to 11. I had a truly marvelous time. I'm going next year, 1,500-mile air distance be damned.

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Below is a short item I wrote a year or so ago without quite knowing where to put it. Nominally, it's a prelude to the entire Gaians Saga (which includes both my Metaspace stories and the Drumlins stories), and yes, it's precisely what it sounds like: a creation story. I wrote it to solve (or at least address) a problem I've been having with The ( Read more... )

Somebody I follow on Twitter (don't recall who) posted a link to a video about a new product out of Japan called Gatebox. It's a little round 3-D video display roughly the size ( Read more... )

Earlier today, one of my Twitter correspondents mentioned that he much liked my conceptual descriptions of wearable computers called jiminies. I did a couple of short items in PC Techniques describing a technology I first wrote about in 1983, when I was trying to finish a novel called The Lotus Machine. I got the idea for jiminies in ( Read more... )

Before I turn it over to Brian, a note or two on what this is about. First of all, if you haven't read what I wrote as intro to his first guest post, it's here and worth reading. Brian's making quite a stir in the ( Read more... )

I've been low-energy for a month or so, following the worst chestcold I can recall. Still coughing a little bit; still low-energy. I'm working up the nerve to write a a series on health insurance that will doubtless infuriate everyone, but since I'm also furious, I guess it factors out. Stay tuned.

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