It is in so many ways a terrible loss to literature that he passed, but it is so soon after reading his novel that for me my brain is still (somehow) processing it as just another an odd twist of that plot.

I’ve been reading the graphic novel “Bone” for the last few days, after having picked up the complete epic one-volume edition and letting it idle on my shelf for a while. It requires me to be sitting, because at thirteen hundred …

About four years ago, back in early 2007, when Karin (four months preggers) and I spent ten days on holiday in and around London, we saw some shows… but, of course.
Busy touring about as we were, my blog posts were quick, to-the-point …

There were a trilogy of science fiction books that I read back in my high school and university days called the “Requiem for Homo Sapiens” by an American author named David Zindell. I don’t really have a solid gauge on their …

Over the past couple years I’ve slowly been acquiring a small collection of books focused on a narrow band of topics in the non-fiction genre of information management, user interface design, and information design technology. I suppose like any good techie, the confluence of paper documentation with a set of well-loved ideas on a passion-inspiring topic is the metaphorical fly-on-honey.

Just this morning on the way to work I finished reading the second of four books of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion saga, “The Fall of Hyperion.” That series seems to what I dabble into whenever I find a new way to consume …