Archive for October, 2008
Lance Corporal v. Lt. Colonel: Fight!
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Yesterday, for some reason, I was dwelling on two incidents from my time in the Marines when I got to tell very senior officers what to do and where to go. One part amusing, seven hundred billion parts nerve-wracking.
Two Things
Sunday, October 19th, 2008The first, did you know Skippy has a blog? That’s Skippy of Skippy’s List: 213 Things Skippy Can’t Do. I think my personal favorite of the list may be #201: “Must not valiantly push officers onto hand grenades to save the squad.” But that’s just me. Anyway, Skippy seems to have gotten a blog, along [...]
Writing Stuff Down Makes Me Forget It
Friday, October 17th, 2008So back at ConClave me and them other folks were talking a bit about process, and it reminded me of an epiphany I’d had regarding outlining a few weeks before the con. The gist of the conversation was something that had also occurred to me a while before, that there is no one process that [...]
My Kid Rocks
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008In other news, Tony is altogether too smart. Or has a crazy good memory. Or something. Evidence below the cut.
Who Knew?
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Apparently, I’m a Democratic “partisan moron.” Also, apparently, as far as I’m concerned “a Republican, any Republican, will always and inevitably be wrong; a Democrat, any Democrat, will always and inevitably be right.” I really hadn’t noticed this about myself.
Gah, Politics
Sunday, October 12th, 2008I think I’ve mentioned before how much I hate the kinds of things that partisan politics excuses–my guy is shiny and blameless, your guy can do nothing right, even when he’s agreeing with my guy. In fact, that was pretty much the point of posting that Jon Stewart clip a few weeks ago, what with [...]
ConClave 33
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008One, was Conclave 33 where I had a very good time as a program participant (and oh, how I participated!) I’m actually a little bummed, because I was nowhere near as prepared for it as I wanted to be, in no small part because of the stress and weirdness I’ve been dealing with lately. But [...]