Well, this is a nice thing to wake up to: #4 on the Kindle in Military SF. #32 in the entire SF category. #699 in the Kindle Store. Dang. All of you who bought the little Space Kablooie novel: you have my thanks. If you liked it enough to review or plug it on Amazon…
Category: capitalism.
crombook laughs at your four winds.
So I bought one of the new Samsung Series 3 Chromebooks, and for all its limitations, I really like the little thing. It has a great keyboard, boots insanely quickly, has seven-hour battery life and a no-maintenance operating system, and doesn’t break the bank. (Oh, and THANK YOU for using a matte screen, Samsung. I…
a humble request.
My little Space Kablooie novel is finally up on Amazon. People are buying it, which makes me happy. People are liking it, which makes me even happier. If you’ve read Terms of Enlistment, please consider leaving a review on whatever site you purchased the book. The reviews are not for me (although I can’t deny…
zweipad.
One of our heavy-rotation pieces of technology is the iPad we got two years ago, shortly after they first came out. Robin uses it for therapy with her patients, the kids play games on it, and I find it handy for watching movies in the evening. With our upcoming trip to Germany, we figured that…
megafridge.
This is our new fridge: I don’t usually go all nuts over new appliances in the house, but I love this fridge. Our old fridge came with the house, and like all the other appliances in the place, it was an early Nineties piece of junk from the “Better Than Nothing” section of the…
capitalism is bad, except when it’s *my* profit.
There’s a new party in Germany. They call themselves the “Pirate Party”, and they’re a loose conglomerate of people well left of the already pretty left-of-center mainstream Social Democrats: anti-Capitalism, anti-establishment, anti-soap-and-deodorant, the usual coffee house anarchists. One of the platforms of the Pirate Party is that “information should be free.” They advocate unrestricted Internet…
you didn’t build that.
So the President gave a speech in which he used a modified form of Elizabeth Warren’s claims that “nobody builds a business alone”: “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have…
the holy grail of joysticks.
This flight sim setup is sick and excessive and way too expensive for a peripheral, and I want one. Oh, yes, I do. I don’t have the optimism to “add to wish list” or “save it for later”. My entire PC before the add-on video card and the beefier power supply cost only very slightly…