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SciFi Thoughts, a podcast about SciFi, Launched!

28 March, 2018 (13:51) | SciFi Thoughts | By: Lancer Kind

Don’t waste your commute time on dull matters! Stretch your brain with some future-oriented programming. Arrive at work with a refreshing new perspective on something you didn’t even know was a thing!

SciFi Thoughts, for a few short minutes, will tease and tantalize you with this genre from the future. SciFi has many dozens of sub-genres, each with different story telling styles that bring new possibilities into how you see the world. Our mission is to expand what science fiction means to you by exploring this genre that is diverse as the stars in the sky. SciFi Thoughts will, like the James Web Telescope, draw focus on a discovery and tantalize you with thoughts on movies and literature through intelligent and engaging discussion. If you’ve got a better idea on how to liven up your commute, leave a comment on the blog and we’ll see what we can do.

Cocktails, unfortunately, are not included.

Breaking news: SciFi Thoughts at NorwesCon!

If your heart is filled with scifi passion and you’d like to let it out in front of a mic, come find Lancer at the Con as he’s bringing his recording equipage. Better yet, make an appointment at: calendly.com/lancerkind

Learn Agile & Scrum the fun way

1 March, 2018 (23:38) | Agile Noir | By: Lancer Kind

Kartar Patel

. . . a savvy project manager who is determined, disciplined, and and above all, handsome. He’s got a high profile project for a Vegas casino and puts his heart and soul into delivering the Winner. But when timelines are slipped, stakeholders want a pound of flesh for every ounce of letdown. He’s being followed . . . discovers tracking devices on his car . . . his meetings are bugged . . . he gets a gun. A mysterious godman tells him he’ll never succeed without transforming his project to an Agile process. Kartar discovers that not only his career and life are on the line, but so is his immortal soul.

Learn Agile and Scrum software development in an enjoyable and memorable way.

The following concepts are covered in this dramatic story:

  • Agile Manifesto values and principals,
  • the Scrum framework,
  • history of Waterfall,
  • User Stories,
  • Planning Poker estimation,
  • cross–team dependencies,
  • Scrum of Scrums, and
  • the challenges of organizational change.

Available in the US and India.  Coming too China (in Mandarin) this summer.

 

Wisenheimer Film Tour at Sausomecon

27 June, 2017 (16:05) | Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens | By: Lancer Kind

Out for a walk inside an asteroid ship.

Out for a walk inside an asteroid ship.

Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens short film is screening at an ultra coolio anime con in Kansas City, Missouri: Sausomecon.

Come watch the show!  And who knows?  Since Director Hal Dace is in nearby Manhattan, Kansas, he maybe he’ll take a break from his current film project to make an appearance.

Twitter: @Sausomecon

Wisenheimer short film playing at a Con near YOU

10 February, 2016 (01:00) | Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens | By: Lancer Kind

 Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens has a short film, a jazzy apertiv to the feature length movie. We’re making it easy for you to catch the short film in a screening room near you. Epistrophy Pictures is shipping BluRay to scifi conventions (Con) nationwide. Director Dace and I are attending the Cons wherever we can. While at a Con go to the screenings and show your support because filmmaking is hard work. We would love the encouragement. Go LIKE our FB page if you haven’t.

Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens, showing at the following conventions (we’ll keep the list updated and announce changes on http://Twitter.com/LancerKind):

LIVE TV interview for Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens

4 February, 2016 (05:18) | Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens, Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

Zipporah's Cult

Zipporah’s Cult

Yes, a TV interview! If you’re like me, you’re wondering “on who” I got “pictures” in order to blackmail my way onto a TV set.

It’s true! No not that–I mean that it’s unusual for an author to get on a TV show. In fact it’s unnatural. Producers worry that I’ll show up with a book and read to the camera.

Now, if you end up co-authoring a film script, say a science fiction movie set a THOUSAND years in the future, and you’ve got some video to show for it, well, now you’ve got something that touches the heart of any energetic producer who’s got a twenty minute and thirty-eight second spot to fill.

Usually I’m involved with authorly things like writing, editing, more writing, more editing, and then finally, selling the manuscript, publishing it, and telling people about it. There’s a LOT of work that goes into telling people about what you’ve done. Although there are a LOT of people on this planet who enjoy science fiction, they aren’t impatiently hanging out in my living room, watching TV and eating my chips, and checking over my shoulder to see if I’ve yet finished something for them to read. (Why, the chip budget alone could bankrupt me!) They’re busy developing products, studying, and plotting world take over (at least that’s what I do in my spare time). Because Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens is a film, it’s a different animal: film festivals, scifi convention film rooms, distributors, YouTube, Kickstarter, and TV stations. Director Dace cut a short film version of the movie so now we’ve got something to tell those people who aren’t hanging around in my living room. (Don’t take it personal Bob.  It’s OK, really–You cleanup after yourself and don’t eat that many chips.)  TV stations that yawned at the topic of books are completely “in” when it comes to the video medium. So I’m totally tickled to do my first science fiction related TV interview. You’ll see screenings of Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens at your local science fiction convention.

Here is the interview.