Monthly Archives: November 2009

I didn’t get to see many of the films at the Austin Film Festival because I was spending most of my time in panels at the conference, or hanging out in the bar, or drinking like a Wisconsin native at … Continue reading →

Real quick, before we return to important things, let me just say that it’s awesome that there’s a species of finch on the Galapagos Islands that drinks blood. And not just any blood, the blood of blue-footed boobies. There’s a … Continue reading →

For the past month or so, I’ve been visiting Heavens-Above.com, a website that takes your position on the globe and calculates when various low-earth orbit phenomena will be visible from your position. For instance, here in Austin, the International Space … Continue reading →

Cavan Terrill at Fusion Fragment has been kind enough to publish another story in my People’s War series. Fusion Fragment has previously posted my story "Pioneers and Indians" which takes place a few months earlier in this near-future chronology. This … Continue reading →