Archive for March, 2009

Scientific Progress Goes ‘Boink’

The hazardous thing about having an analytical mind is that sometimes I perform experiments on myself. For instance, the only car accident that I’ve been in was when I rear-ended a truck in my old car.  My car was totaled and the truck only had a dent, but that’s not the point. I can’t specifically [...]


Friends

After having Jim Gaffigan link this on Twitter, I had to post it here. Besides, I really need to post here more often anyhow.


Books and More Books

I started filling in my profile on Shelfari last night in the first step of hopefully utilizing the social networks I belong to more efficiently. I want to join LinkedIn as well, but that’s assuming I can keep up with Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, BoardGameGeek and Shelfari first. Going through my books shelf by shelf last [...]


House

No, it’s not about the TV show (but I do think it’s a good show, I love Hugh Laurie).  I’ve been thinking about what will happen if my brother moves out.  You see, he still doesn’t have a job after graduating from college, and with the state of the world, he may have to move [...]


A Lack of Character(s)

I’ve come to realize that one of the toughest challenges that I have in my attempts at writing fiction is creating believable characters.  It may in fact be the hardest part of writing for me, and I have yet to overcome it.  That’s why I haven’t managed to finish a story completely – I become [...]