I just got back from the Writing Excuses Retreat cruise. It will be difficult to properly convey the surreal and amazing experience of attending a writing conference intertwined with a Baltic Sea cruise. Either by itself would have been a wonderful way to spend my time. Together, they were a truly once in a lifetime […]
I’m On A Boat! WXR Cruise
I leave for the Writing Excuses Retreat conference tomorrow! Eeep! PACK ALL THE THINGS!
Failure Is Always An Option
Can a former web application developer figure out how to create his own WordPress site? I suppose we’ll find out. (very appropriate gif stolen from @swear_trek)
Nosejob In A Nutshell
Mary Robinette Kowal’s posts about her own nasal surgery in June inspired me to finally get my own issues fixed. Amusingly enough, I had exactly the same list of issues she did: Dievated septum Collapsed nasal valves Turbinate hypertrophy I had roughly two hours of surgery on 7/27/16. It included shaving off slivers of my […]
SagCom Portal Ships
I stumbled upon Anthony Howe’s work some time ago. It’s amazing and mesmerizing in so many ways. When I started thinking about the design of a ship that could punch a hole into another universe and then widen it enough to pass through, his work came to mind. This is the inspiration behind the final […]
The Joy Of Living With False Alarms
Random twinges of anxiety, like faint echoes of past warnings, nudge at the edges of my awareness. They always leave me with a nagging worry that I’m missing something important. I try to dismiss them as irritating noise, meaningless flotsam washing up from the depths of my malfunctioning subconscious. Just chemical leakage from the wrong […]