Sunday, May 14, 2006

This is me. This is my life.


window prop
Originally uploaded by 1600 Squirrels.
My life in a nutshell: coffee, paper/proposal to review, bike, random location. It was a sunny day in Oakland sitting in the window of Hudson Bay Caffe on College. The window would slowly slide closed, so I propped it open with my bike seat (carefully removed from my double-locked bike across the street). Thanks to my retired AI game programmer, screen- and novel-writing, shutterbug friend for the shot, taken at one of our occasional lunch and afternoon sessions, each escaping our apartments to write, read, edit, or hack a few pages closer to our own quixotic goals.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Mind-Blowing Idea of the Week: Colonize the Cloudtops of Venus

Colonization of Venus Cloudtops. As far as I can tell, they're serious, but I suppose it could be the result of drunken planetary scientists watching Empire.