More On Lulu
2008-03-07 08:53:54
Well, my last post on publishing with Lulu proved to be fairly popular. This being so, I thought I should update my readers on the latest development with my book Youji Haiku. In order to be eligible for an ISBN, I had to modify my document (again) to fit the 8.5 x 8.5 size requirement. [...]
Poetry: Out to Sea
2008-03-06 09:22:16
Stumble It!
when I feel lost, as I do now,
I imagine a ship, with me on the bow,
cutting a path through green sea foam,
heading towards a sailor’s home,
but a sailor’s home is not built of brick,
nor of mud, or stones, or sycamore sticks.
large oaken planks, thick steel shanks,
huge cannons to smash the enemy’s ranks,
teams [...]
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Government Capt-ivity
2008-03-05 09:34:27
This time there’s a slight twist: I own this image, it did not come from a .gov server. With that said, I think that it is still relevant and it speaks for itself. Click on the thumbnail for a full sized image (to better read the text).
Seeing things like this really makes me happy!
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DARPA Is Doing What?
2008-03-10 06:51:35
This has been a very interesting week for me. I have this year taken my first couple of paid writing positions, a trend that I very much hope to continue. It feels good to go to bed at night knowing that I earned my day’s wages by using my brain rather than by breaking my [...]
The 21st Century G.I. Bill
2008-03-14 09:24:47
This is just a short note on a very important legislative movement to return the education benefits afforded our veterans to the levels they existed at in the post World War II era. At that time our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines were given full tuition, had all their textbooks purchased for them, and were [...]
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On Parenthood
2008-03-13 08:09:18
I make no attempt to keep my feelings secret about parenthood. Back on 23 February I published an original poem of mine that dealt with this very issue. It is called Welcome to the World and really does a great job of expressing the primary emotion that I feel when considering my role as a [...]
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Words that Weren’t II
2008-03-13 06:43:37
Well, some time has passed since the last installment of this series, and the list has grown. Today I’ll add 6 more words to this list. I really don’t understand why some of these terms aren’t supported by my spell check dictionary until I click on the “add to dictionary” button in Firefox. What do [...]
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Luck of the Irish!
2008-03-18 01:59:58
Last night my wife and I were watching the news and we saw a story together that made us both go, “Wow, cool!” It seems that somewhere in this valley is a good samaritan with a sense of humor and some wealthy friends in the leprechaun community. A local Grand Junction citizen stepped off the [...]
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Writer’s Block
2008-03-21 06:48:46
Why do I always start these things out with the word well followed by a comma? Well, today the answer might have to do with my writer’s block. I’ve got a 100% complete, rough draft of my book to be editing, but at the moment that sounds like taking a package of sandpaper to my [...]
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Isn’t Writing Fun?
2008-03-24 06:41:37
Well folks, after 5 years of work I’m roughly fifty percent complete with a 2nd draft of my book. And no, a book doesn’t normally take 5 years to write. My problem, and the reason for taking so long, was that when I began this project back in 2003 I wasn’t planning on writing a [...]
The 2nd Draft is Complete!
2008-03-28 10:25:30
I can’t even begin to convey to you the excitement that I am feeling right now! When I completed my first draft several weeks ago I was happy, but not elated. I knew that even though I had a full manuscript in my hands, it was still far from complete. But Yesterday morning at 10:29 [...]
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The “One Machine”
2008-04-01 11:20:40
And now for a brash opening statement: I am about to change your life.
Actually, I’m about to change the entire World. This is a power that I, as a writer, hold in my arsenal and value above nearly all else. I can, for the span of your stay here at my blog, give you a [...]
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Google Is Down!
2008-04-01 05:26:39
What the hell, people? I woke up at 3:30 this morning (thanks to my good friend Tom for putting that bug in my ear) because my dog Koda was puking up something that he manged to fish out of the trash while we slept. Anyhow, after cleaning up the mess and getting him some fresh [...]
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Stan Hilkey and the MCSO Botch Yet Another One
2008-04-03 10:34:27
(Stan Hilkey: A Terrible Sheriff for Mesa County)
For those of us who live in Mesa County, located here in beautiful Western Colorado, this week has been a bad one. Another senseless death has plagued our local broadcast and print news headlines, this one of a young mother. Anna Maria Macias was shot and killed [...]
Bored This Weekend
2008-04-07 10:30:23
So here I was, sitting around the house with nothing much to do this last weekend, when I resolved to get something done. As such, I recorded a song. The drums came from a really cool (in my opinion) website called DrumsForYou.com. I also used some audio clips of famous speeches, all of which I [...]
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, Weekend
Tricky Dick Gets the Cold Shoulder
2008-04-12 08:44:21
The Vice President of the United States of America arrived in my hometown of Grand Junction yesterday, and received the only welcome that the man could hope to expect after 8 years of war mongering and failed policy: throngs of protesters. Tricky
Dick was in town to attend a fund raiser for Republican Senate candidate [...]
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Ouch! The Daily Show’s Eviscerating Video Of Fox “news”
2008-04-11 19:14:14
The Daily
Show’s John Oliver put together a stunning smackdown of Fox News on last night’s show, punctuated by some damning clips showing egregious comments from some anchors (John Gibson, natch) and some — gasp! — flip-flopping on certain positions (like, say, executive privilege).
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On The Radio
2008-04-15 07:55:45
Over the weekend I threw back to one of my oldest talents, music! True I got very little writing done, next to zero in fact, but then such has been the way of things before. I tend to sway back and forth between my writing and my music. At times, weeks will go by and [...]
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Let’s Talk Constitutional Law — Part II
1969-12-31 18:00:00
If you have read Part I, and hopefully you aren’t reading Part II without having read Part I, you might be scratching your head right now. What the hell is he talking about? If you’re having trouble figuring out what I was referring to at the close of Part I, let me end the suspense [...]
Let’s Talk Constitutional Law — Part I
2008-04-18 13:53:03
So there I was watching the debate, night before last, between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which was broadcast from Philadelphia, PA. Honestly, I felt that both candidates did pretty well considering the “shoddy, despicable performances” of moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos.
Hillary was constantly reciting the words, “…like we had in the 90’s,” [...]
Not Slacking, I Swear!
2008-05-01 08:23:07
Okay it’s true, it has been a while since my last post here at Words From, but with good reason(s). I’ve been spending a lot of time on my weekly Internet radio show, mostly on the promotion end. At the moment I am averaging roughly ten or twelve listeners per show. Now, if you consider [...]
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Where I Work
2008-05-02 09:16:36
Since I’ve mentioned the radio show twice now I figured I might as well throw some pictures of the “studio” up. Actually, it’s my workstation for every last thing that I do. It’s just that because of the microphone, mixer, and computer with speakers it looks much more like an in-home studio than anything else. [...]
Wrote a Letter to the Vice President Today
2008-05-03 08:58:07
Well, I was feeling feisty this morning, of that much we can be certain. My wife saw in our local paper that someone had written an anonymous comment to the “You Said It” section pointing out that Dick Cheney had spent taxpayer money to attend a private function here in Western Colorado. This echoed my [...]
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, President
, Today
An Update on Lulu
2008-05-04 09:52:40
Previous posts about Lulu:
What’s That You Say, Lulu for Publishing? 04 March 08
More On Lulu 07 March 08
In the above posts dealing with the Lulu publishing service I’ve promised to bring updated information back to my readers and, as of right now, I have yet to do so. So here I go. I have come [...]
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Wrote a Letter to the Vice President Today
2008-05-03 08:58:07
Well, I was feeling feisty this morning, of that much we can be certain. My wife saw in our local paper that someone had written an anonymous comment to the “You Said It” section pointing out that Dick Cheney had spent taxpayer money to attend a private function here in Western Colorado. This echoed my [...]
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, President
, Today
Where I Work
2008-05-02 09:16:36
Since I’ve mentioned the radio show twice now I figured I might as well throw some pictures of the “studio” up. Actually, it’s my workstation for every last thing that I do. It’s just that because of the microphone, mixer, and computer with speakers it looks much more like an in-home studio than anything else. [...]
Not Slacking, I Swear!
2008-05-01 08:23:07
Okay it’s true, it has been a while since my last post here at Words From, but with good reason(s). I’ve been spending a lot of time on my weekly Internet radio show, mostly on the promotion end. At the moment I am averaging roughly ten or twelve listeners per show. Now, if you consider [...]
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Let’s Talk Constitutional Law — Part II
1969-12-31 11:00:00
If you have read Part I, and hopefully you aren’t reading Part II without having read Part I, you might be scratching your head right now. What the hell is he talking about? If you’re having trouble figuring out what I was referring to at the close of Part I, let me end the suspense [...]
Verify Technorati
2008-05-06 09:22:16
Technorati Profile
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Settling In
2008-05-07 09:31:16
Well, it looks like the redirect link that I put up as my final post at the old address is working. I couldn’t find a way to make the automatic redirect work because WordPress.com doesn’t support code in that way, at least not as far as I can tell. But several people have managed to [...]
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