Green Web Hosting

July 21, 2009

We couldn’t really claim an environmental conscience for our family if the hosting of this blog spewed forth an hourly pile of carbon, especially when no one was visiting yet.

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Some Links While I Tidy Up Here

July 20, 2009

My Articles Archive: All of my articles on ConnectorLocal.com Become a Better Photographer in 5 Minutes How To Buy A New Car In Your Underwear Beware of the Demo(n) Car Dealer Marketing Your Website: Search Engine Basics Stop Signs Suck: Why I Love Roundabouts Summertime Hunger? A Man’s BBQ Recipe The 11 Best Geek Board [...]

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Watchmen by Moore and Gibbons

March 5, 2009

I hate to say it, but I didn’t read this book until the movie was announced. Elliott lent it to me with his jaw on the floor, and I hate to say, but it sat on my shelf for more than a month before I started it. What was I thinking? I could have read [...]

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The Martian General’s Daughter by Theodore Judson

September 25, 2008

After reading endless positive things about Pyr’s books, I acquired* six of their titles. With statements like “Pyr only publishes Gems” and “Pyr can do no wrong!” I wanted to see it for myself. I read through their list of available books, looked for a few themes that fit my tastes (and a few that [...]

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The Monkey Trap by Lee Denning

September 24, 2008

A few months ago Lee Denning contacted me and offered me a chance to review the first two books in his new Nova Sapiens trilogy. I’ve finished the first one, Monkey Trap, and as I promised him, here are my thoughts (the good and the bad). The basic premise is that two other-wordly entities arrive [...]

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The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi

August 20, 2008

Dear Mr. Scalzi, Please don’t take all of my money. Thanks in advance — Cam Yes folks, I finished The Android’s Dream a few days ago, and while it isn’t quite Old Man’s War in terms of sheer awesomeness, it’s darn close. Moreover, I’m totally hooked on Scalzi’s style, wit and humor as well as [...]

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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

August 15, 2008

A good friend and regular reader here gave me a copy of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend this summer and urged me to read it soon. This 1954 novella is largely credited with starting or significantly revolutionizing a number of fiction sub-genres — namely, the modern vampire, zombie and disease-induced apocalypse genres. Though I’d contest [...]

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Favorite Author – John Scalzi

July 29, 2008

It has been suggested on a number of occasions that I do some sort of top 10 SciFi authors list. However, I don’t think I could easily rank my favorite authors, so instead I’ll simply do a series of articles about them and their stories. I’ll start with John Scalzi. Many people have suggested that [...]

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Hal Spacejock by Simon Haynes

July 18, 2008

At the end of May I told you about a free online ebook that you could download and enjoy direct from the author. Simon Haynes was then kind enough to send me printed copies of the first three Hal Spacejock books for a review and discussion here. I’ve just finished reading the second book in [...]

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The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell

July 17, 2008

Have you been worried I was lost? Well I was. Amazon turned me on to The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell via it’s recommendation service, and I gave a whole month of my life to it in one swift binge. The fourth book in this six book series, Valiant, was released on June 24th, [...]

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Earth By David Brin

June 11, 2008

Earth by David Brin was nominated for a Hugo in 1991 and chronicles a large cast of characters through a number of ecological issues and crises. It’s a 50-year forward prediction (now only 30 years away) of the consequences of technology and commerce on the environment as he saw them in 1988. I enjoyed the [...]

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