I was in DC when the financial crisis began to play it out. Every evening I’d turn on CNN and listen to some new horror: Lehman Brothers gone, the Treasury refusing to bail out AIG at twenty billion and then deciding to bail them out once the price had risen to eighty-five billion; Morgan Stanley […]

. . . or Something.Astronomers peering through the Hubble have found something new. Like, totally new. Like unprecedented. Like an object that no one has ever seen before.It wasn’t there. And then it was. And then it wasn’t. “We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class.”Freakin’ great.

Okay, I found credits for Spore and discovered my actual Spore job title. It’s “Writer, Spore Story Elements & Missions.” There I am, on the same page with Will Wright and Brian Eno. How cool is that?

Miners’ Ink proved to be a pleasant convention, and a pleasant surprise considering that none of the people involved had ever thrown a convention before. The few mistakes made were minor compared with the mistakes that could have been made, or that perhaps ought to have been made. The university venue offered some differences from […]