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Sarasota :: FL :: USA

Member since Mar 01, 2008

About Me:

I'm a historian turned game designer turned comic book publisher turned novelist and good natured raconteur. My first two novels, Geek Mafia and Geek Mafia: Mile Zero led me to spend more and more time with the hacker community in the US and abroad and ...

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Future Compliant, June 22: Enki, Androids, and Enhanced Reality
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Sarasota :: FL :: USA | Jun 22, 10:57 AM

I first came across the idea in William Gibson's novel Virtual Light, and he plays with the idea some in his new novel, Spook Country. But for my money, the coolest sci-fi interpretation is in Vernor Vinge's award winning novel, Rainbows End, which ...

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Media Glutton: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition
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Sarasota :: FL :: USA | Jun 18, 8:59 PM

I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons off and on for a really long time. If my math and memory are right, I started iin third grade which makes it somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 years. Oh, man, I hadn't done that math before. That's a really ...

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Media Glutton, June 13, 2008: HULK SMASH!!!
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Sarasota :: FL :: USA | Jun 13, 2:29 PM

Media Glutton, June 13, 2008: HULK SMASH! Just got back from seeing the early show of the new Hulk movie. I really do like the AMC $5 morning movie rate on weekends - it makes seeing films so affordable that I don't mind risking some cash. I wasn't ...

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Future Compliant, June 11, 2008: Electoral College, Vaccines, and Linux
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Sarasota :: FL :: USA | Jun 11, 3:47 PM

The big future issue in the US these days is of course the very, very near future of the presidential elections in November. Now that we've got our candidates, one of who will make a great president and the other of whom is John McCain, the pundits, ...

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Media Glutton: Kung Fu Panda, Firefly Rain, and Obedience
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Sarasota :: FL :: USA | Jun 08, 4:40 PM

Media Glutton: Reviewing Obedience, Firefly Rain, and others Double dipping of Media Glutton this week - part of the fallout of my massive dose of free bookage this past weekend. Plus I just saw Kung Fu Panda and wanted to get in a good word about ...

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Media Glutton June 4, 2008: Book Expo America
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Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | Jun 04, 12:13 PM

I've just returned from Los Angeles where I was doing a reading at the Write To The City event being held in unofficial conjunction with this year's Book Expo America. The event went amazing - a tone of people showed up and the venue was packed for ...

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