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Category: procrastination
I Will Be at Some Conventions This Year
(Wow, has it really been a whole month since my last blog post here? I’m a terrible person.) If you’re a SF/F convention-goer, here are some 2016 events I’m definitely attending and which I would recommend to any fan: Norwescon…
I Saw These Videos for the First Time Last Week
And I must share them with you. I must! First up, an Australian PSA demonstrating the terrifying consequences of illiteracy: http://youtu.be/STHpMUYeznQ Next, a genre-riffic advertisement for a vocational school in Perth: http://youtu.be/4Am7oKBD3PU Both of those were made by comedy duo…
I Really Want You to Install This App
Like I said last week, go check out the SafeTrek app. I like having it for peace of mind, if nothing else. Now here’s my legwork on what the people behind SafeTrek have done so far in 2014… In late…
I Want You to Install This App
Because though I hope you’ll never need SafeTrek, I don’t want you to ever suffer for want of it. Free download for iOS or Android. The basic idea is this: start the app when you’re traveling through an area where…
Fresh Meat
As you may have heard, our Tuesday podcast is going on hiatus for the holidays, and returning next year on an irregular monthly schedule. And I also ended my Friday flash fiction project back in August, so… I guess it’s…
I’m Sure You’re Shocked…
…by the results of this online quiz I just took. Procrastination! Your results:You are Jean-Luc Picard Jean-Luc Picard 65% Worf 65% Mr. Scott 60% Geordi LaForge 60% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 55% Uhura 55% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 55% Spock 52%…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Her Story”
This is what happens when you wait until the last minute to write a story. Read “Her Story” at 512 Words or Fewer
Six “Gangnam Style” Spoofs You Must See
You* will, of course, have already seen the original music video by Korean pop star PSY: 0. “Gangnam Style” Find out what he’s saying in this annotated slideshow by a Hawaiian design firm. Not that it really matters. Like all…
Damned Lies of the Week
After watching @snarke‘s vlog from yesterday, I was going to post a comment about the most effective job search strategy being talking to people you know—friends, family, co-workers and former colleagues. I even had a statistic: my wife, who’s also…