Monthly Archives: August 2008
A Complex Sleight of Hand
T-Stone has written in defense of Dawkin’s idea that theists proposing Intelligent Design would need to have a God who was more complex than the universe is. Important [..]
Please Reject Me!
I sent off a “Please Reject Me” request today, otherwise known as submitting a story for publication. Any author who’s anyone can paper their wall with rejection slips. [..]
Another Deconversion
On December 6, 2006, I responded to comments Charles had made responding to a particular person who was responding to a post Steve had written. My response included [..]
Well Crafted Stories
Confession time: I’ve seen The Dark Knight four times at the movie theater. This is the most I’ve ever watched a movie at the theater. In fact, I’ve [..]
A Sign! (Well, A Plate Anyway…)
Today coming in to work I saw two license plates. The first had the letters NDE on them. The second had RIP. I’m thinking it’s Bush’s fault.
Red Dragon
I know this one’s an oldie (and it’s also one I read before) but I have to praise the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Put it this [..]
No More Dollar Menu
On the radio this morning, the DJs were talking about how McDonalds was planning on removing the double cheeseburger from its dollar menu. This led to discussion of [..]
Some Editing (and a Misc. complaint)
I just have a quick miscellaneous thing about today. I’m sick of having to deal with computer problems at work! Yup, I’m the designated computer guy in my [..]
5,000 Word Day
It’s been a while since I’ve had a day like today. NaNoWriMo-while, to be specific. But today I got a 5,000+ word day in writing. I finally got [..]