No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

While I've been to a number of rallies in DC over the years, this is the first anti-war rally I've been to. During the Viet Nam era...

Yup, if you listened to Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know , broadcast over NPR from Cleveland this morning, that was me at the end of t...

"My brain hurts!" (the Gumbies on Monty Python ) We've long suspected that the average IQ of the average member of the Bush g...

Well, there's no doubt about it now - if you are poor, and there's any kind of emergency, there's no such thing as a government ...

I'm a movie fan. I used to go to at least 2 movies every month in the theater. Until this week, I think the last movie I'd seen in ...

OK, this one is Charlie Stross's fault... Your Travel Profile: You Are Extremely Well Traveled in the Midwestern United States (100%) Yo...

We had a great time at Armadillocon in Austin, TX over the weekend. Report from Texas

Well, almost ! Before I went to Scotland for Worldcon in late July, I was looking over my novel and realized that while I was doing a good j...

I've felt pretty crappy since coming home from Scotland, but, gradually, I've been doing some work on my novel. Probably not the bu...

Slowly, I'm starting to add photos from Scotland to my site. I have some up at: http://www.dpsinfo.com/sf/inter05 . I tend to be very ...

If you wonder why none of my Web sites have been updated, it's because we were in Scotland working on the World Science Fiction Conventi...

HISTORICALS! - Adventurous and somewhat dark, but that's true adventure. From the heart of Olde England, or the Caribbean isles, adventu...

This is a true story. Swear to Ghu, even though we have no photos to back it up. I bought a ticket to see the Pittsburgh Symphony perform ...

space.com 's report of the discovery of a planet in a triple sun system is one of the most wonerful things I've seen in a long time....

Teagan Goddard's Political Wire had a link to Fire Karl Rove , a petition urging Bush to fire Rove since it looks like (to almost no on...

Last week, I was working very hard on getting the Interaction schedule ready for the Web. Unfortunately, various things have conspired to h...

I saw a neat Web site today: We're Not Afraid It encourages people to thumb their noses at fear. A splendid idea: We're still trave...

No, I'm not quite one with my laptop and recliner. Having heard how great the weather was going to be, Jim and I decided to drive up to...

Yes, I read about this on Leslie Turek's blog: It was pretty painless - give it a shot. I've been pretty quiet here, partially becau...

Over the last 2 weeks or so, my insomnia has gone from bad to worse, and I'm averaging under 4 hours of sleep a night. Sleeping pills s...