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Maybe USA or another network will pick it up. Is that even possible?
Saying goodbye to Eureka
Last year, my friend Amy told me she was moving from writing Leverage to writing Eureka. She asked me if I was interested in playing a scientist who was kind of a jerk. I said "yes" as fast as I could, and ended up playing Doctor Isaac Parrish for seven of the ten episodes in season 4.5. When se...
Years ago, while in college, the house I lived in had a grape vine in the back yard. My roommate and I decided to harvest these grapes and turn them into wine, after a lecture in chemistry class (I think) which involved a procedure that was pretty simple- grapes and yeast in a bottle with a balloon over the opening; when the balloon stopped inflating, the wine was finished.
Took us awhile to track down brewing yeast (This was 1993- no amazon.com yet!) but we finally made a batch.
It was horrible. We drank it anyway, at one of our weekend parties.
As gamers, we also had an interest in making our own honey mead, such as was served at the state's Renaissance Festival.
In the early days of the internet, we'd explore FTP sites and TELNETs and other fun things kids these days know naught of. We tracked down a book called "The Cat's Meow"- page after page of brewing recipes. We settled on a simple honey mead recipe, brewed it up, and waited the two weeks until it was ready.
It was horrible. We drank it anyway.
While that was the end of our brewing experiments, I was able to track down The Cat's Meow online ... because on the internet, nothing ever dies. Maybe you'll find something in there to try yourself.
The Cat's Meow
in which my son and i bottle our beer
I walked down the hallway toward the guest room, and started talking before I got to the door. "Hey, I just looked at my calendar, and I miscalculated when we should bottle our beer." I stepped off the wood floor of the hallway and onto the soft carpet we just had installed. I involuntarily squi...
Where's the option for "I don't like either"?
Does Your Size Determine if You're a Top or Bottom?
That's one of the questionable findings in a study conducted to determine how the size of a man's penis affects his sexual health. The study, titled “The Association between Penis Size and Sexual Health among Men Who Have Sex with Men,” was launched and subsidized by the National Institutes o...
Hey, happy birthday!
singing fun fun fun
Yesterday, I got an e-mail from John Scalzi, reminding me that my Unicorn Pegasus Kitten fanfic is due on Saturday ... I'm going to skip the part about how I began to hyperventilate at the thought of actually turning something in to John that people are going to read and OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALL GO...
There are many people to whom you are still a role model. As well as a roll model for gamers.
excerpted from Just A Geek: a sort of homecoming
As I said in my last post, I'm really excited for all of the events on my schedule at the Phoenix Comicon this weekend, especially the TNG panel, because I get to share the stage with Jonathan and LeVar. Even though I talk to LeVar fairly often, we've never spoken together at a con. Though I've ...
I was home sick as well. I was playing Impossible Mission on my Commodore 64 when I heard the news on the radio. I went and watched the coverage on TV for the rest of the day. It was the first time for me that NASA felt fallible.
some of us are looking at the stars
On January 28, 1986, I was home from school with the flu. I remember that, no matter what I did, I couldn't get warm, so I was sitting in a hot bath when my mom knocked on the bathroom door. "There was an accident with the space shuttle," she said, in the same voice she used when she told me th...
Bought the book and read it cover to cover. The number of pop-culture references you make that I identify from my past was astonishing. I'll buy each volume that comes along. And incidentally, I never hated Wesley.
Memories of the Futurecast: Episode Eight
Holy crap! It's time for Memories of the Futurecast. Memories of the Future, Volume One, covers the first 13 episodes of TNG, so each week, I'm choosing something from one episode, and performing an excerpt for you. It will mostly be from the synopses, which is where I think the real humor of...
You may find these amusing while you're recovering. It's a set of Wesley Crusher Successories on Flikr. This is my favorite one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smwance/2207482538/in/set-72157603758610844/
i don't want to go on the cart
I feel happy! I feel happy! In all seriousness, I'm recovering at exactly the right pace, according to people who keep score on this sort of thing. Warning: this is about to get gross. I'm off all the meds, except for some stupid steroid for swelling that makes me really fucking irritable and re...
You may find these amusing while you're recovering. It's a set of Wesley Crusher Successories on Flikr. This is my favorite one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smwance/2207482538/in/set-72157603758610844/
i don't want to go on the cart
I feel happy! I feel happy! In all seriousness, I'm recovering at exactly the right pace, according to people who keep score on this sort of thing. Warning: this is about to get gross. I'm off all the meds, except for some stupid steroid for swelling that makes me really fucking irritable and re...
If you need another book to read while flying around, I recommend "Soon I will be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. It's one of the best super-hero novels I've ever read, and I think you'll like it.
http://www.amazon.com/Soon-Will-Be-Invincible-Novel/dp/0375424865/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201416197&sr=8-1
the pre-con jitters and ramblings about books
I haven't written much lately, because there just isn't that much going on around here that I can talk about. I'm writing a lot -- not as much as I want to, but still doing it every day -- and I've discovered that if I talk with anyone other than Andrew about my ideas, they lose the need to be t...
If you need another book to read while flying around, I recommend "Soon I will be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. It's one of the best super-hero novels I've ever read, and I think you'll like it.
http://www.amazon.com/Soon-Will-Be-Invincible-Novel/dp/0375424865/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201416197&sr=8-1
the pre-con jitters and ramblings about books
I haven't written much lately, because there just isn't that much going on around here that I can talk about. I'm writing a lot -- not as much as I want to, but still doing it every day -- and I've discovered that if I talk with anyone other than Andrew about my ideas, they lose the need to be t...
Wil-
I'm delighted you have discovered Doctor Who, and especially with one of the best episodes ever. With the popularity of the latest version of the show, I've been waiting for you to comment on it on your blog, since it seems to me that you'll really like the show.
Doctor Who, for me at least, was the show for people that were too geeky for even Star Trek and Star Wars. And that made it very, very special.
Carry on the good work. Maybe someday, we'll see you on an episode as a guest star. Although I bet you'd have a lot more fun on Torchwood.
genesis of the daleks
I should have finished my script yesterday, but the goddamn sinusitis completely knocked me out. Luckily, used a winning combination of Sudafed, Mucinex, Advil, and sitting on the couch next to a humidifier to prevent this thing from developing into something really nasty, like a Moose Bite. ...
Wil-
I'm delighted you have discovered Doctor Who, and especially with one of the best episodes ever. With the popularity of the latest version of the show, I've been waiting for you to comment on it on your blog, since it seems to me that you'll really like the show.
Doctor Who, for me at least, was the show for people that were too geeky for even Star Trek and Star Wars. And that made it very, very special.
Carry on the good work. Maybe someday, we'll see you on an episode as a guest star. Although I bet you'd have a lot more fun on Torchwood.
genesis of the daleks
I should have finished my script yesterday, but the goddamn sinusitis completely knocked me out. Luckily, used a winning combination of Sudafed, Mucinex, Advil, and sitting on the couch next to a humidifier to prevent this thing from developing into something really nasty, like a Moose Bite. ...
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