Building the new PC

I happen to have a homebrew PC on my desktop:
pc-001a
Looks cool, but was beginning to seriously feel its age. (It would slow down if you put a Vista install disk in the same room.) So I bought a new motherboard and and chip for it.

Here were prepping for surgery:
pc-004a
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That was just cool

This past Monday I went down to Mac’s Backs in Cleveland Heights (my local book store of old) to see expat Hamster Cat Valente do a reading/concert/art auction.  It’s as cool as it sounds, and if you’re lucky enough to have her doing her Palimpsest rounds somewhere near you, I’d Read more…

It’s a mystery to me

UPDATE: Things went very well last night.  A fun time had by all.  The actors were cast perfectly, and given the answer distribution, I seem to have struck the right balance between an obvious villain and a completely obscure solution. Tonight I am going, with a bit of apprehension, to Read more…

Shifting Gears

Been doing this writing stuff as a pro for the past sixteen years or so, and I’ve discovered one thing that just never gets any easier.  Now it may look like, occasionally, I’m doing several things at once.  That’s never really the case, you can’t really write two things simultaneously.  Read more…

Wal-Mart ships serious boxes

My wife’s birthday came in November, and today this gift box was delivered: That’s a mighty impressive box. Wonder what’s inside? Ok, packed snugly with some paper packing materials, another box. Interesting. Want to take a wild guess what’s inside? Well there were a whole mess of Styrofoam peanuts and… Read more…

Good luck Toby. . .

Friend, fellow Ohio writer and former hamster Toby Buckell has ended up in the hospital, having gone into the ER with “shallow breathing and a high heart rate.”  Send good thoughts his way. . .  after all this guy is so cool he’s live-blogging his own hospital admission.