Books… Gotchas in Book Contracts 27 Feb 2025 When I had an opportunity to move from self-publishing to traditional publishing years ago, I didn't think I needed a literary agent. I landed contracts through personal connections and highly-targeted…
Writing AI in Microsoft Word: Not Ready for Primetime 24 Feb 2025 It seems like every product on the tech market has to have artificial intelligence these days. There's AI built into all of the big software suites (Microsoft, Google, Adobe...), of…
Science & Technology Does Matter matter? 7 Jun 20246 Mar 2025 Getting started in home automation was exciting. It was also extremely frustrating. Smart home devices have been around for quite a while now. A few years ago I was under…
Writing Poop Emojis: Law and Confusion 10 Apr 20235 May 2023 As the Who 💩 in the Park guy, I have opinions on the "smiling poop" emoji. Any emoji aficionado would know that there are a lot of ways to interpret…
Education… Amateur lawmakers still don’t understand what science is 6 Feb 202310 Nov 2025 Montana's State Senate Education Committee is considering a bill that's not only written by people who don't know what a scientific theory is, but want to redefine the word. SB…
Education Of College Degrees and Teaching Credentials 7 Dec 20225 May 2023 When I started college at De Anza in 1976, I was convinced that my future was entirely centered around software engineering. Since I'd been working—and playing—with computers for years, I…
Publishing Designing your own book cover: Artwork 7 Nov 202231 Jan 2023 Designing your own book cover is deeply satisfying, but also fraught with peril. Securing rights Securing the rights to your cover photos seems like obvious advice, but even the big…
Writing Copyedit or Copy Edit? 13 Apr 20221 Feb 2026 Oh, the strange dilemmas we encounter when writing a resume! I'm looking for some new freelance work at the moment, and I keep getting dragged off into different rabbit holes…
Random Stuff A B.P.O. Elks Update From a Former Officer & Member 15 Mar 20226 Apr 2023 This is a follow-up to The Benevolent and Protective Order of (non-atheist) Elks, which I wrote in 2011. I never thought that ten years later, it would still be one…
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