Help me select a title
So, I’ve been hinting at the project I’m working on for a while now. I guess it is time I told you what it is. I’m working on a collection of flash fiction Christmas tales.…
Cards from a machine and dopamine hits
This past weekend was my youngest step-granddaughter’s birthday. She had it at Chuck E. Cheese, which if you’re unfamiliar with them, built it’s reputation on the audioanimatronic figures of Chuck E. and friends playing in…
Guest Post – The solution to the ‘War On Christmas’
I have a guest post today from a friend of mine. He doesn’t do social media, or have a blog, or an email list and he asked if I would post this for him. Since…
Chatting with Xerxes
As I walk the dogs in the morning, I often see a man standing around, sometimes on the street, sometimes on the wall surrounding the neighborhood. He usually has a beanie cap, a long coat…
More Adventures in eBook formatting
You need good eyesight when formatting books. It helps to be able to see all the little things, like double commas, or misplaced apostrophes, or missing quote marks, things like that. It’s nice having an…
Adventures in eBook formatting
So, my day job is working as a virtual assistant for authors. One of the services I offer is formatting books for ebook and print distribution. Recently I started using a new program called Atticus…
12 Days of Christmas in AI generated images
I was reading Ray Camden’s blog where he took the lines from the song The 12 Days of Christmas and fed them to various AI image generation programs. Since I have a few credits on…
Brain fog
Today’s post will be short and sweet, if for no other reason than I want to keep the streak alive, but also because I have a bad case of brain fog. For dinner tonight we…
“The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements”
The TV series Babylon 5 is set upon a space station that sits at the intersection of several inhabited areas of space and acts as a sort of United Nations, where ambassadors of each race…
A correction to a statement from yesterday’s post
In yesterday’s post, I made the assertion that a friend of mine is a philosophy major and a cynic. He is a philosophy major, but he has sent a communique that he is not, in…