Archive for November, 2010
Reading Recommendation: N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Sometimes it’s worth it to get led to a book. I roomed with Kris Dikeman at the Starry Heaven writing workshop in Flagstaff, and she recommended N.K. Jeminsin to me. Then I was at World Fantasy in Cleveland and bidding on the P.K. Dick award table when I noticed The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, bid on it, and [...]
New at Futurismic: The Recession and the Steep Upward Slope
I’m an early adopter. But new technology is coming out so fast, I can’t adopt it all. I sat down to write a short pithy paragraph about that for this blog, and out came a whole essay — so it’s at Futurismic. The basic idea is that it feels like we’re going backwards in a [...]
On FiRE This Veterans Day
I’ll be spending my day off tomorrow at the Future in Review one-day conference called FiRE Global. I’ve been invited to participate in the CTO challenge, which is this case is a continued discussion about scaling energy, which may be no less than a talk about how to save the world. My belief (based on [...]
Reading Recommendation: Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die, by David Kessler
I picked this up because of my recent experience in hospice with my little brother, Russ, who died of cancer. The book is simple: a series of stories about being with the dying and hearing them talk about deathbed visions. Note that these are different than NDE’s (Near Death Experiences) where the person comes back. [...]
