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Continue reading →: Three Short Months
So the plan is for me to defend my MSc thesis in early December. This being the first day of classes means that defense is about three months away. And that probably means I’m no more than two and a half months from having completed the last round of edits…
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Continue reading →: Prog Rock vs Sitcoms
If I had to pick a single subgenre of rock music to base my entire collection on, I would be very sad to lose the breadth and eclectic variety I’ve gathered into an extensive playlist spanning nine decades across multiple subgenres of rock and beyond. I would nonetheless not hesitate…
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Continue reading →: Is it Smog or Smowg?
The Hobbit was published in 1937. I didn’t read it back then, of course, not having been born until late 1970. I think I was about 7 years old when I read it the first time. My first reading of Lord of the Rings would come the next year, first…
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Continue reading →: Catching Up
So it’s been quiet for a couple of weeks. That should mean I have a backlog of stuff, but it doesn’t. There are a couple of posts I wrote but didn’t manage to put up in late July, so those will come in the next few days after this and…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Mom
Today should have been my mother’s 79th birthday. She was always good at keeping secrets when it came to her personal health and major family issues. This was a family tradition, I think, and was done under the guise of not wanting her children to worry. I can think of…
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Continue reading →: SFS: The Watch
BBC 2020 (just barely with the first episode airing on 31 December), one series with eight episodes. Being up front with an overall opinion, I’m three episodes in and enjoying it so far. But I think I’m enjoying it in spite of being a Terry Pratchett fan rather than because…
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Continue reading →: Quantity vs Quality
Another Ray Bradbury quote: “Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.” It’s a writer’s take on an old refrain, something that might even be a cliché at this point. Sometimes, you’ll see it stated different ways, like: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice,…
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Continue reading →: First Draft vs Final Draft
Social media has driven a lot of us to assume that our first impulse is our best response. This is the case a lot less often than most of us realize and I think it’s ultimately the reason for the overall breakdown in reasonable and reasoned social discourse in the…
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Continue reading →: June 2026 Writing Report
June was a tougher month than May. It was still productive, but not so much for fiction and in part because I managed to get a little extra dictation in, making up for the day I missed entirely. Certain family events had me on the road a lot more than…
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