Ray Bradbury died today; he will be missed. He was born in 1920, and lived to 2012. He wrote roughly a million short stories, an…
A while back, I posted a request for DJs to tell me how they picked their next track. The exact question was: “How do you…
I’ve been working on a Ruby on Rails / SoundCloud / Heroku web app, for my SENG 435 course at UVic, and I’ve hit some…
I can’t say enough about these cats.
Amazon Web Services crashed on the day that Skynet was supposed to wake up. Just wanted to have that down for posterity. Remember: truth is…
I started a new project: I’m going to try to use a tumblr account to track influences, updates, etc. It’s here. Since you asked: ‘TH…
CYCLONOPEDIA might be the single weirdest book I have ever read. A pseudo-academic Cthulhuian treatise on the Middle East, oil, and demonology, it is by…
I finished China Mieville’s THE CITY AND THE CITY recently: it’s kind of like Borges meets…well, Borges, really, but slightly less elegant and much more…
Books again: Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WIND UP GIRL is fascinating. The plot, in this case, is a vaguely Frank Herbert-esq tale of conspiracy, people submitting…
Been reading. We’ll start with William Gibson’s ZERO HISTORY: it’s somewhere between SPOOK COUNTRY and PATTERN RECOGNITION. It’s not as breathless as PATTERN, but not…