Every year, D and I host an Academy Awards viewing party at our home, and we amassed a bit of a following in the bay area over the last decade. Now that we’ve moved away, our friends Ken & Jerry…
Category: sci/tech
Happy Presidents Day
Check out the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and marvel at how far we’ve come since then. ~CKL
Two Years Until Retirement
(The anticlimactic conclusion to the laptop repair saga!) We drove back to Northwest Computer Support this afternoon to pick up my laptop. Desiree, the technician working on it, had called me yesterday to say that she couldn’t figure out what…
Lost and Lost
The bad news: On Sunday, I misplaced $400 worth of electronics.The good news: I hadn’t actually paid for any of it myself. The items in question were a Creative Zen portable media player ($100) and a pair of Shure sound-isolating…
A New Laptop Sticker
(Previously, on CKL’s HotSheet… “Languishing Laptop.” And now, the continuation!) I picked up my repaired laptop from Northwest Computer Support yesterday afternoon. That’s their work order number sticker on the corner of the lid. They replaced the main board…
Back to the Future
Read it now!FREEFALL: No FateChapter 7: We Happy Few When I was in college, I started writing a series of science fiction stories collectively titled FREEFALL. They were set in a semi-parallel universe, where a family named Quinn (and yes,…
You know, going FTL does imply time travel
Back in the 20th century, I got into my head this crazy idea to make a mockumentary about how my friend Bryan had invented faster-than-light travel. It was based on an offhanded comment he made once, about how he wanted…
Backhanded Compliment of the Day
“It takes about three days to get used to [the Kindle] — during which you wonder what chimp engineer designed it so every surface a normal human would use to hold the device is actually a button — but after…
Languishing Laptop
This is my Lenovo ThinkPad T61p. There are many like it, but this one is mine. I bought it last January, and it’s survived five months of road trip, including a few good tumbles–while we were packing up our house…
Daily Routine, Part 2
(The long-awaited conclusion to Part 1!) As promised, here’s a breakdown of my writing habits. D will have to speak for herself. And, ironically, today is a very atypical day–we got up at eight in the morning, at least two…