Well, this is pretty cool. A literary magazine called f(r)iction wrote a Halloween-themed article with a reference to a story for each zodiac sign, and they chose my story Side-by-Side for Leo. Why Leo? No clue :-). I’d not heard …
I know everyone has been dying for me to do another programming post, so voila – you’re welcome! I was working on a program for scheduling Zoom webinars and meetings (more on that in another post) and even though the …
Early on I decided to generally avoid politics on this site. I do occasionally go on rants about patents and the like, but mostly I use this site to talk about fun or interesting stuff I’ve seen or done. So, …
Today is Anna and my 26th anniversary. And not a single serious successful murder attempt! Since the 26th anniversary is apparently pictures…
Our house backs up to a golf course, which is kind of nice, since it means we have an open space that won’t be covered in houses–giving us a nice view of the mountains and Pikes Peak. Well, it would …
I just had a new short story, Side by Side, published in the Every Day Fiction web magazine. They publish a new flash fiction story every day. Flash fiction refers to extremely short short stories. A common definition is 1,000 …
If you are going to wear a mask, it might as well be a digital mask, right? I got the idea from an on-line video from the owner of a company called Lumen Couture, and ended up ordering the same …
Okay, so 2020 is a pretty dark and stormy year, but this post is actually about the 2020 Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest. Last year I won in the Fantasy and Horror category. This year I didn’t do quite as well, but …
A while ago (longer than I’m willing to admit) We decided to build a steampunk-themed MAME cabinet to play old video games (of Space Invaders/Donkey Kong vintage). We started out by purchasing a busted Arkanoid cabinet (in a snowstorm with …
It’s been a while since I’ve done a programming post, but something came up the other day that I thought might be useful. In one of my current projects, I needed to determine the number of words in a string. …