Tad Williams is Ruining my Calm
Life is too short for re-reads. Do the math. If your good reading-and-comprehension (yes, some of you hear Cheech and Chong’s voices in your heads) years range from age 10 to 80, and you...
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What time does an Apple provisioning profile expire?
For those of you that do not get the challenges of living in the Apple Developer world, a bit of background: To deploy an iOS app outside of the Apple App Store, either as...
We Survived the Fort Collins Bicycle Breweries Tour
A tour of several Fort Collins breweries (13 as of this writing)? On bicycles you say? It wasn’t a bike like the one in the photo (that is for next time), but this is...
Springsteen but no Lillyhammer
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – The Woodlands, Texas, May 6, 2014 On a recent trip to see good friends in Hawaii (yes, this story does start on a beautiful island), after...
Can Houston Rockets Choke City 2 turn into Clutch City 2?
Disclaimer right up front: I am biased. I had Rockets season tickets for the great Hakeem Olajuwon’s entire career, and saw every game of the two championship playoff runs. And I agree the old...
Getting Married is Like Having a Ring in Your Nose
On this 25th anniversary of our wedding, I tell the tale that many of you have heard, and cemented everyone’s admiration for my lovely bride. She’s sneaky…and gorgeous. As skeptical as I was about...
Audrey, Rugby and Rod Stewart’s wife
Twenty-five years ago today, my wife and I had our combined bachelor-bachelorette party – yes, on April Fools Day. Most of my friends indeed thought I was kidding…and are still awaiting the punchline. I...
Interview with Andy Weir, author of THE MARTIAN, on SFSignal.com
My interview with Andy Weir, author of the bestseller THE MARTIAN, is live on the two-time Hugo award winning SFSignal.com. An excerpt: LARRY: In the Ares 3 mission team in THE MARTIAN, you have a Commander,...
On being a Google Glass-hole
It’s not a very attractive phrase, but it does seem to be prevalent, and addresses invasion of privacy concerns. And, yes, I have joined the ranks of Google Glass “Explorers”, Google’s name for folks...
Interview with James Gunn, Grand Master of Science Fiction
My interview with James Gunn, recipient of the Damon Knight Grand Master of Science Fiction award, was posted on the Hugo award winning SFSignal. It was also picked up by io9 where a nice...