I couldn't get out of bed this morning. The alarm went off, I hit the snooze button. Again, and again, and again. Finally, I had to get out of bed. And in some weird daze I fixed coffee, booted up the computer, and turned on Morning Edition for my early news fix. I need toContinue reading “On a Lack of Priorities”
Monthly Archives: August 2006
On a Story's Scrapbook
Yesterday, cleaning around the office, I went through a pile of papers. There, at the bottom, was the galleys for “Make-Believe.” A few months ago after going through the galleys for misplaced punctuation and misspelled words I left the papers there, and other things–from job postings to work spreadsheets to store supply orders–were placed atop.Continue reading “On a Story's Scrapbook”
On the Creationism Museum
Outside Cincinnati in the rolling hills of Kentucky a museum is being built, the Creation Museum. Its idea? To present exhibits based on the idea that the Biblical account of creation–that an omnipotent diety created the universe and everything in it in seven days a few thousand years ago–is literally true. From an Associated PressContinue reading “On the Creationism Museum”
On Work Idiocy
My boss is an idiot. There. I've said it. He's not always an idiot. But sometimes he makes idiotic decisions. He's got good reason, but still. Idiotic. Let's go back to the merger. Many EB stores were inventoried in January. Most were not. And then in February, when the EB and GameStop mainframes were linkedContinue reading “On Work Idiocy”
On Random Fun Facts
Tagged by Ross Vincent, six random facts about Allyn! 1) My eye color changes. I'll go from grey to hazel to blue to green, and it's quite random. Right now they're grey. And tomorrow? Every day is a surprise! 2) My name contains all six vowels, each used only once. I don't think my parentsContinue reading “On Random Fun Facts”
On Shaving
I'd gotten a bit scruffy. Six days scruffy. Stubble I like. Scruffy I don't. It's been too hot to shave. But the scruffiness had to go. So, I scraped my face this morning. It feels nice. Not scruffy, not now. 🙂
On the Book at Hand
Tagged by Keith DeCandido: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pickContinue reading “On the Book at Hand”
More on Constellations
Today, editor Marco Palmieri announced the table of contents for Constellations, Pocket Books’ 40th-anniversary Star Trek anthology. The authors involved have been known for about six months now, but today the anthology’s running order and individual story titles, some of which had not been revealed, were announced: Introduction by David Gerrold “First, Do No Harm”Continue reading “More on Constellations”