Writing lessons and the writing life
I talked with an AI today.
Salon had an article on a chatbot that was the most successful in fooling judges in the annual Loebner prize. So naturally I had to check it out.
It’s name is Elbot. It’s by turns cheeky, philosophical, and obscure. Really, really obscure. James Joyce has nothing on Elbot. But what was [...]
Oh my, that was amazing. We were looking for a more moderately priced restaurant after the Mrs. B’s night. Stortini’s fit’s the bill. I had scoped the place out for lunch with Sharon and Max — it’s located conveniently close (like blocks away) to Sharon’s work, and since Max joins her at the office, they [...]
One of the benefits of sending my novel off to my editor is that I have time on my hands, time that I’ve used for watching Nova and reading National Geographic among other less-noble programs (cough! Project Runway cough!). And once again it strikes me how utterly sad creationism and intelligent design are.
I think these [...]
At our last cryptopolis meeting, the talk turned to movies, good and bad. Patrick pointed out that, “No one sets out to make a bad movie.” It’s just, there’s a series of decisions along the way and one thing leads to another, and you get…Tristan and Isolde.
This is one of the classic love stories of [...]
I have two honorable mentions in the current edition of Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: For Pigs and Feaches, which first appeared in Apex Digest, and for Bagged Lunch, which appeared in Weird Tales.
Bagged Lunch was originally called The Lunch Thief. It’s the second in my series of stories based on what it’s like to [...]
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