Author: Jon

Interesting to note that today is the full moon… my birthday. I don’t remember having a full moon fall on my birthday before, though I’m sure it must have at some point. It’s also the northernmost full moon of the year. Besides that, we (Earth) are passing as close as we’re going to get to… Continue reading There’s a full moon on my birthday

We popped the DVD of "The Incredibles" in for the kids tonight, and I swear, I can’t not watch it when it’s on. "The Incredibles" is pretty much at the top of my list for the best superhero movie out there. While it’s tough to pin down exactly what makes it so good—I mean, they… Continue reading Superhero movies

This is one of the (few) completed stories I’ve written, and it’s mostly polished for my liking, though I tend to tinker with it from time to time. (Bad habit, that.) It’s also short, about 2244 words in length. The title? Ah, the title. When I first wrote this (way back in a creative writing… Continue reading Fiction: Untitled (complete)

This article is all kinds of awesome. I never thought I’d see the day. The Commodore 64 is 25 years old this year. Kind of shocking, really.

So here’s the deal. It’s blindingly obvious that I haven’t devoted much time to this blog in quite a while, even though I consider this site my "main" identity on the web. Part of it is blog fatigue, part of it is all my best ideas these days are related to my other blogs, part… Continue reading The one in which I start something new

We went and picked up our Christmas tree today, and ended up getting a seven foot Grand Fir from the Tom’s Trees lot downtown, right across the street from the Franklin Crossing building (and next to El Caporal). Good trees—I like Tom’s Trees, they always have good ones—but the weather left the experience somewhat less… Continue reading Christmas tree

Just to get something on here, jeez… Halting State by Charles Stross The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Accelerando by Charles Stross Collapse by Jared Diamond The Way We Ate by Jacqueline B. Williams No real commentary, though I found all of these to be good. Particularly the Charlie Stross novels.

This is kind of random, but see if you can follow my thinking. Though I suppose if you weren’t geeky familiar with the TV shows in question, it may not make sense to you; carry on. Back in the 70s, when "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" were on TV, the "bionic… Continue reading Tech sounds

Sometime in the distant past when I put the link to my Amazon wishlist here on the site, I wondered if it would actually inspire people to buy me stuff from it or if it was just a vanity move (I use that wishlist as much as a bookmark system as an actual list of… Continue reading It’s the gift economy