My view right now as I am sitting in the office of my local car hospital while Frostbite One, a.k.a. the Grand Marnier, gets its snow shoes put on and a wheel bearing replaced. Also, this office is massively over-heated, and I hope they’ll be done before I am nothing but a puddle on the…
mmmmmmmrow.
I think I just found a worthy new contender for the top of my “Cars to Buy When I Have Fuck-You Money” list: the new Jaguar F-type R coupe. (Sorry, Aston Martin DBS V12.) By Odin, that thing sounds insane.
my books, they have covers.
Check out the cover art for LINES OF DEPARTURE: There’s also a new cover for the re-release of TERMS OF ENLISTMENT, but it doesn’t show on the Amazon page yet. You can see it in the search results when you look for “Terms of Enlistment” on Amazon, though.
in which I incur the wrath of steve’s ghost.
In today’s installment of the Munchkin Wrangler Gear Whore Labs reviews, I will share with you my opinion of the Microsoft Surface. I have a new review policy in place. All items I review in this spot—books, toys, gear, whatever—are paid for by my own cash, not provided to me by someone else. And I…
puppy play.
Henry and Ygraine doing what they do most of the day. (Ignore the messy floor, which I’ve TOTALLY PICKED UP since then.) This fiber-optic connection kicks ass. That was a 153MB video straight from the iPhone, and it uploaded to YouTube in a minute or so. 50Mbps download speed is very nice, but 25Mbps…
ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray.
We had a door put into the back wall of our garage. it has a doggy flap in it, so the dogs can get into the fenced-in yard from the garage without anyone having to let them out through the porch door. It’s interesting to see the ability of the dogs to adjust to this…
*snikt*
Back from the shop: my well-worn Benchmade 2550 automatic folder. A few months ago, the automatic opening feature turned itself off by way of the mainspring snapping in half. Due to the stupid-ass federal law on shipping switchblades across state lines, I couldn’t send it back to Benchmade to get fixed, so I tossed it…
hey, I know that novel.
Check out the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards, and look at the Science Fiction category. https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2013?utm_source=twitter.com The little Space Kablooie novel is in the opening round for Best Books of 2013. Pretty cool!
measures of absolution.
Happy goddamn Monday, kids! There may or may not be a new novella of mine out on the Kindle. It may or may not be called “Measures of Absolution”. It may or may not be availabl…no. You know what? Forget that angle. This is private commerce, not the Obamacare website. It’s called “Measures of Absolution”….
beams of light.
Castle Frostbite just got a major Internet upgrade: I opted for the 50Mbps down/25Mbps up package, and as you can see, Speedtest says we’re getting pretty close to that. Our DSL line was 1.5Mbps down/0.75Mbps up, so this is a significant jump in bandwidth. And look at that latency. It’s a thing of beauty.