smokingpen | August 17, 2004
I’ve been watching the Olympics. Not to the extent that I am glued to it, but I flip back and forth between NBC and whatever else is on. So, I am watching it, and I am glued to the T.V. during my favorite sports, namely volleyball, and specifically women’s beach volleyball. This is a sport I can watch frequently, and I hope that it has less to do with the women and more to do with the sport – as volleyball is also the only sport that I really enjoy playing.
Category: olympics |
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smokingpen | August 14, 2004
I have updated the other StandingWater Creations site. There is stuff there, it no longer redirects directly back to here. Basically, this will be my static page that tells the world about me, about my writing and other creative projects, and will hopefully be used as an educational outlet. In essence, between my BLOG and StandingWater Creations you will be able to track what I am doing. Now if I could just find a real job.
Category: site maintenance |
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smokingpen | August 14, 2004
I woke up the other morning, it was uncomfortable and a part of me was completely set to go straight to the store, purchase whatever it was that I needed at whatever cost, come back to the house I am staying in and install it. That’s what I was going to do. It didn’t occur to me, until later in the day when I’d ignored what I was going to do, that I had lived like ‘this’ once before in my life.
Category: East v. West |
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smokingpen | August 11, 2004
When I saw that they were going to make a movie out of ‘I, Robot’ a science fiction bit by Isaac Asimov, I had to go out and break my long time rule of not reading science fiction and buy this piece of science fiction. The first disappointment I had, when walking through the Layton, UT Barnes and Noble store was that they did not carry ANY copies of that book that weren’t printed with a cover showing Will Smith. I like Will Smith, I hate books that advertise movies. This almost stopped me from buying the book and ignoring the movie altogether – or at the very least, to walk into a used book store and purchase a nice old, in need of a new home, copy of the book rather than something that was a tie-in to a movie. Because of time constraints, I believe I was on my way out the door to go rafting down the lower Snake River outside of Jackson, WY, I grabbed ‘I, Robot’ and three other books and raced out the door.
Category: Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Isaac Asimov, book reviews |
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smokingpen | August 11, 2004
I recently put down ‘Red Mars’ by Kim Stanley Robinson. Good book. It explores the scientific theory, through a science fiction story, of what would need to take place in order for human-kind to travel to and eventually colonize Mars. The general plot of the book doesn’t sound all that interesting, and unless you are a nut who likes to read well written stories that incorporate science fact with science fiction you’re probably not going to be super-fly on this book either. But the premise is good, the story is great, and the outcome is exactly what you would expect when you know that Kim Stanley Robinson has written two other books behind it, Blue Mars and Green Mars.
Category: Kim Stanley Robinson, book reviews |
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smokingpen | August 7, 2004
I have begun to notice that many of my thoughts are beginning to rotate around the date of my move from Utah to Boston. There are the events that took place before the move and those that take place since the move. Nothing that crosses over between the two seems to matter, much, to me. It either happened before or after. Not during.
Category: East v. West, Personal Entries, religion |
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smokingpen | August 5, 2004
I’ve decided that I am not going to be pursuing the freelance writing thing. Instead, I will work on my writing, on different ideas and such. Okay, this is really just an entry to have an entry until I can start posting what is happening and what I am working on different areas.
Category: site maintenance |
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