Month: August 2013
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Randy Orton and the Loins of Passion
It is time for another bulleted-list update. I was recently so bored that I rewrote the first three pages of an erotic story, retitled it as “Randy Orton and the Loins of Passion” and submitted it to a small press for consideration. The story was an erotic coming-of-age tale involving Randy Orton, his father Cowboy…
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Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response
I went to the farmer’s market in Berkeley. Farmer’s markets are strange, because the places that have the most farmers generally don’t have farmer’s markets. I grew up in a state where every other person around me was a farmer, and they barely had vegetables. I think attempting to open a farmer’s market in my…
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A history of Rumored to Exist, by RCS checkin comments, without commentary
When I wrote Rumored to Exist, I used RCS, a source control system that used to be popular for unix. (Since then, the cool kids have gone to using CVS, then Subversion, then Git.) Each time I checked in a file, I left a little comment. Here’s a log of those comments, in reverse chronological…
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Noncompliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard
I am now 58,000 words into a book that has absolutely no structure, no plot, and for the most part, no characters. It is basically 226 nightmares and dream sequences back-to-back in no real order. (In comparison, Thunderbird was 38,844 words.) Part of me wants to come up with an overarching story that links these…