Vacation Feeding your Aquarium residents Something that always seems to get the owner of an aquarium into a tizzy is vacation feeding. People feed every day (or more) when they’re in town. They want their wet friends to have the same care and treatment while they are gone–or at least… Continue reading
Writing at Entropy Central If you are a writer with offspring living in the house, You know very well that the chaos that erupts from “special events” can completely derail writing time. The real problem is that “special events” happen all the time. Over the past several months, the “special… Continue reading
If you write a series, there are any number of continuity problems that may arise. The problem is, you may not start out trying to write anything more than a stand-alone novel. What do you do when you write a sequel several years after that stand-alone is released? Almost any… Continue reading
***SPOILER ALERT***SPOILER ALERT***SPOILER ALERT***SPOILER ALERT*** Did I mention ***SPOILER ALERT*** ? This film left me with mixed impressions. As a whole and taken on its own, it was a decent film. Then again, I have the hindsight of 4 television series and something like 11 previous films of history before… Continue reading
+ Proxima Centauri Status On the surface, it looks like I did nothing this week to further the progress of my next novel. True enough, but plenty of groundwork was laid in the form of gedankenexperiment. While the novel I am about to begin is the second in the Deep… Continue reading
Much to my surprise, as I fed my Pachypanchax playfairii (a Seychelles killifish) a few days ago I discovered three frys. Between their size, the fact the tank is on the lower tier of a rack, and the fact that the fry stay near the surface, it’s incredibly difficult to… Continue reading
Every once in a while, something needs to change. This website had been using the same WordPress template for over 4 years, and in all that time I never saw an update. The template worked fine. Eric James Stone did a little bit of customizing for me early on, but… Continue reading
I have several Wednesday writer interviews lined up. Unfortunately, I have been swamped with work on the business side and have not put the questions together yet. I’ll hopefully get that done by the end of this week so interviews can start appearing again next week.
The kernel of this post arose from the recent (and not-so recent) firestorm over sexism in science fiction and fantasy author circles. I’m not going to go into the details of what happened inside SFWA or the organization’s publication, the Bulletin. If you are not up to speed on those… Continue reading
Right now, I have tanks scattered all over the house. It’s problematic in terms of thermal control, water changes, feeding, an a number of other areas. So, I am embarking upon a project to consolidate my smaller tanks. I’m building a rack in a room that is being used mainly… Continue reading
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