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In my last post, I whined in a rather pathetic manner about all the things that had been keeping me from meeting my NaNoWriMo word count goals. Well, I’ve definitely gone off the rails by now. I’d need to write almost double the original daily word counts every day for the rest of the month in order to catch up. And that just isn’t going to happ...

In this post I engage in a lot of complaining and whining. It’s probably not that interesting, but I feel a pathetic need to justify my failure to achieve my daily word count goals for NaNoWriMo. Read at your own risk. So I cruised through my first few days of NaNo without too much trouble other than staying up late to get my words in. . . then...

As I mentioned in my post a few days ago, I have been planning to participate in NaNoWriMo this year by trying to write an entire 50,000 word novel in one month starting November 1st, or at least 50,000 words of the beginning of a novel. That requires 1,667 words per day, on average. My original plan was to complete an entire outline using the p...

NaNoWriMo, for those who may not know, stands for National Novel Writing Month. Beginning on November 1, you try to write an entire novel, or at least 50,000 words, before the month ends. I’ve been meaning to try it out for several years now, but it seemed like there was always some major obstacle—a new baby, a new house, whatever. Finally, thi...

A while back I had my first serious run in with streaming music services. I had heard about them before, but never seriously considered them. After all, I have a pretty large music library full of music that I love, and I like owning my music. The problem is that for a number of years I haven’t had the extra cash to buy all the music I wanted. A...

Are you in the mood for some speculative fiction, but not sure what to read? Look no further than SF Signal’s guide to NPR’s top 100 fantasy and science fiction books. There’s something for everyone. Click on the picture to find the original in all its massive glory, and let me know which book the chart led you to. I was led to The Codex Alera b...

Although I’ve been a huge fan of Dream Theater ever since Images and Words came out back in 1992, I have been a little disappointed with their past couple of albums. It seemed to me that they were just treading water, or retreading the same ground they’ve covered multiple times before. There was very little that felt original or interesting to m...

Here’s a short list of geek stuff that’s admired and loved by loads of geeks worldwide—but I’d rather spend eternity in the belly of the Sarlacc than ever have to deal with in any form. Dr. Who—It looks like it was filmed in the 80s. See also Star Trek below. The Chronicles of Narnia—The movies are mediocre, and the books are cloyingly did...