Download PDF Last weekend, at OryCon 31, I ran two Open Read & Critique (ORC) sessions. I’ve done writing workshops before, but this was my first experience with the ORC format (called “rogue workshops” in other places). There were a…
Category: sci/tech
How to Solve Any Puzzle in Less Than 47 Minutes
EDITED (10 Jan 2015) to fix broken video and photo embed links. For those who couldn’t attend, here’s a recording of the puzzle hunt talk I gave at Ignite Portland 7 on November 19, 2009! http://youtu.be/QGXzqc1v5hI The talk includes a…
In a Crowded Theater
This Thursday night, I’ll be presenting “How to Solve Any Puzzle in Less Than 47 Minutes” at Ignite Portland 7. The title is, of course, hugely misleading; I’ll be discussing puzzle hunts in general and walking through one Clue from…
Um, gee, thanks, Facebook…
…but I think you may have confused me with someone else. Screenshot: I’m not saying I wouldn’t want to be Ray Bradbury‘s friend. I just don’t think he would click “confirm” on that request. What I’d really like to know…
Here V Go Again
Just watched the pilot for the new V television series (based on the 1983 miniseries). No spoilers here, but I will say this: an awful lot of pipe, not a lot of details, and still quite a few science errors….
Friday Night Live
Mark your calendars: On Friday, October 23rd, at 10PM Pacific, I will be a guest on Strange Love Live, a weekly online show featuring “the movers and shakers of the social web.” I’m not sure I qualify for that lofty…
Cory Doctorow on Self-Publishing!
Jasper here, with some commentary from Hugo-nominated science fiction author Cory Doctorow! Cory’s latest Guardian column is about “Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers,” but he also addresses the question of self-publishing: [W]hy do we…
You know you’re obsessed…
…with a video game when you start thinking about installing a special utility just so you can get hotkeys to make your gameplay more efficient. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ~CKL
Star Trek in 11 Minutes
As previously mentioned, I did enjoy the new movie, but there are plot holes aplenty. And, like Scalzi said, would it have killed them to get some basic science right? Spoilers abound in Samuel Bierwagen’s Bad Transcript: Star Trek (2009)….
My New Computer Redux
Just in case you were unclear on how much of a huge geek I am, here’s what the back of my new iPhone now looks like: (Decorations from Star Trek Sticker Book; ClearShield from Agent18.com) ~CKL