My friend Jim’s kid, the actress Stella Maeve, has been signed for the TV show House. House is one of my favorite TV shows. Stella will appear in a role that may become a regular gig. This, of course, depends on the producers and directors, but I have no doubt that Stella will do well. […]
Wanderings
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Pricing Strategies
You must have noticed that Walmart charges prices like $14.88 for things and not $15. I have taught myself to say fifteen dollars when I see these kind of prices, but psychologically, I still probably still see $14.88 as less than $15. The reason for this kind of pricing is that there are built in […]
Community College Technical Courses
I used to teach at various colleges in the evenings. I taught programming courses in Java, Visual Basic, Database, Systems Analysis and Design, and Web Design. This stopped after 9/11 when the economy tanked and college registrations went down. I have not taught any classes in several years. I find myself in need of extra […]
Sense Checking a Story
A professor once told that I didn’t really need a spell checker. What I needed was a sense checker. I write very fast when I am really cooking. I can knock of 2,000 words of a story in an hour. I don’t stop to fix anything; I just type on. As a result, my text […]
Hermie is all better
I am sorry that I did not post this sooner. Hermie had his private parts worked on to relieve a bad infection. It appears that an animal bit him. Hermie is a pussycat and runs away from danger so something must have chased him, possibly a racoon, or even another cat. He was in great […]
Old Story Rewrite
Back in the mid 90s I wrote a story. I found it 10 years later on a backup diskette. I just called the story SF2. I never did find the story that I called SF1. I wrote the story without any idea how it would go and with no plan. I just started writing about […]
Collection of Stories
I have decided to collect all my computer related stories into one book and put it out on Amazon, iBooks, and anywhere else I can sell it. J. Irwine has been covering the bases on this, doing my research for me, so all I have to do is go to his homepage and search through […]
Waiting on Stories
I have 4 stories out with editors. I have one out 29 days at Card’s ezine. They respond in 30-35 days so I might hear this weekend. I have another one out at Clarkesworld for 5 days and they respond in 3 to 6 days so I expect that one to be rejected tonight or […]