Category Archives: Geek

NaNoWriMo is eating my soul

NaNoWriMo couldn’t have picked a worse month for me.  I’m sure that’s what I would say if it was in October, or January, or June.  But this month is still a bad month.  For instance, October was extremely sparse.  I had nothing on the calendar, and I was playing World of Warcraft much more than [...]

Working Title: Addicted to VHS

Less than a week away from NaNoWriMo, and I’m very ready to get started.  As a matter of fact, I jumped the gun along with a bunch of other NaNos and wrote a small excerpt.  Don’t worry, it’s not really against the rules.  It’s just an exercise to get your juices flowing.  But now that [...]

Dvorak's Wonderous Layout

Friend, I come to you today with a proposition.  Apparently, there are all sorts of life changing things going on in my life, and I want to share one with you that could change yours.  Imagine yourself back in the era of typewriters, where hitting a key actually caused a metal stamp to fly out [...]

Flying

Yesterday, my friends and I decided to go to the 2009 South Plains Air Show in Slaton. It wasn’t really a planned trip, I just wanted to see some planes and I asked my friends to tag along. So we headed out to Slaton and found our way onto the concrete runway, where the show [...]

Epic Scripts

One of the things I love most about movies is how every movie has a unique effect on everyone.  Sometimes a specific line from a movie can embed itself in someone’s memory when everyone else just disregarded it as an insignificant piece of the movie.  The reality to me is that every line, setting, scene, [...]