Short version:  The author knows a lot of facts about James Kirk but understands nothing of his heart or soul.

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Background:  I'm working on a Starfleet career for a computer game called The Sims 3, so yesterday and the day before, I spent the day knee-deep in computer code.  My husband, Norman, is a professor of computer science at a nearby university ( Read more... )

I have a PhD in Clinical Psychology, so I guess I should have expected this.  My #1 and #2 seem like an odd combination, but then, I am a rather odd combination of things. :-)  The test seemed to weight that training in clinical psychology over everything else I said; I would actually have expected the numbers for #1 and #2 to be a lot closer ( Read more... )

If I've been writing TOS fan fiction several days in a row, I sometimes find myself talking in a more Spocklike way than usual, even when I'm NOT writing.  Half of me thinks this is scary, and half of me thinks it's neat. :-)  But I understand a little better how Mr. Nimoy could have found Spock so sticky while he was playing him*.  Maybe it's ( Read more... )

The Locus recommended reading list just came out, listing science fiction and fantasy novels, nonfiction, short stories, novelettes, and novellas that were published in 2015 that they think are worth reading.

If you're not familiar with Locus, they're a magazine that's ABOUT science fiction and fantasy, rather than one that has SF in it.  So it ( Read more... )

I entered the Star Trek writing contest, even though I haven't a prayer of winning, just because you gotta do stuff like that or the Dream Fairy stops sending you dreams ( Read more... )

I hope that 2016 will bring you health and love and success (however you define it) and happiness.

Or, as a wise man once said, Live Long and Prosper. :-)

Happy Winter Solstice, however that's celebrated in your culture.  I'm not a Christian, but I do celebrate Christmas as a purely secular holiday:


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No, I didn't make it!  This was made by Blackmarket Bakery in Costa Mesa, California:


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