Because tomorrow is my birthday, my wife, who is the coolest wife in the history of the Cosmos, made me this: Yes, it is a knitted Dalek. This was after the plush brain cell, the “What Would a Zombie Do?” spinner, and the tickets to a Jonathan Coulton concert in San Francisco in January. I…
Month: December 2008
Let's do a meme
This one dates back awhile, and I don’t remember where I found it. Go ahead and ask me a question. Any question at all (within the bounds of good taste), anonymously if you wish, and Iwill do my best to answer it.
Brief, Random Thought
I don’t spend nearly enough time with my friends, off-line or on. I’m going to try to change that.
A question for the masses
Assume that you’re writing a Christmas story. What elements should go into that story to make it a truly successful Christmas story in our culture? So far I’ve got: A Christmas tree A crippled, possibly even dying, child A goose What else should I include?
Ha ha ha grr brains Merry Christmas!
My little story “Night of the Frozen Elf” is up at Tales of the Zombie War, a site that is, naturally, one of my favorites. Enjoy!
The State of the Richard (and stuff)
Ever since returning from Seattle I’ve been dealing with this stupid upper respiratory infection. “It’s just a regular bacterial infection,” said my doctor, “the sort that most people with normal lungs get all the time but don’t even notice.” But apparently my special lungs, what with the airway remodeling — wherein the bronchial tubes and…
Imaginary Time at the Sandwich Shop (A Lesson in Cosmology)
I’ve been re-reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, the revised and updated edition from 1998. Oh, I know that a lot of advances have been made in theoretical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and high energy particle physics over the past ten years, but I still think that much of what Hawking wrote applies….