How has your outlook on life shifted during the past ten years?

“He was a shadow of his former self, but only when the sun out. Otherwise, he roamed the night in his full glory and power.”

#writing #throwawayline

Best e-reader app on iOS: Yomu. Best eInk e-reader: the Kobo series.

#books #ereader

I’ve been extremely lucky to become an expert during my business career and then pivot to publish 10 books so far. It hasn’t always been an easy journey, but there are worse ways to live.

#life

Back in my day we only programmed in Algol.

#programming

Wow! Jody Lynn Nye is going to be at C3 this year and someone whose work I like. Of course, I’ll be there as well and I like my work. But I’m biased.

creaturescrimesandcreativity.com/2025-auth…

#mdc3con #author #conference

I wish there was a way to strip Amazon’s book DRM scheme so I could move my books over to Kobo, etc.

#amazon #failure #books #reading

Do people still write farces? If so, have you read any good ones?

#book #reading #farce

Back in my day we had printers where you had to hit a matrix of keys to get letters to come up on the paper. We called those devices typewriters.

If you could, what would you want to learn or learn how to do?

I’d love to learn to play an instrument or draw, but I incapable of either. I’d like to learn to be conversationally fluent in Japanese, but that won’t happen, although I’m working on it.