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The curse of honorable mention

19 December, 2008 (21:48) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

Ever since Honolulu Hottie got honorable mention, I’ve been obsessing about what story to send for next time.  The contest happens quarterly, so I have four months to select the story which will put me over the top. I’ve been staring at my “inventory” of stories (I have the titles written on stickies and posted […]

China, a tour done SciFi-geek style

3 December, 2008 (22:40) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

Naturally, China has done a lot of great things.  They have the great wall. They’ve recently hosted the Olympics. They allow one to get a latte in a place once known as the “Forbidden City”. In Hangzou, I saw an amazing outdoor show with people dancing on a lake.  It was amazing seeing a cast […]

I went to china to so my friend could eat small creatures on-a-stick

23 November, 2008 (14:36) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

(PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED! The images contained within may not only give you an appetite for un-culinary creatures on a stick, you may become hungry rather than frightened during the “crunchy” scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark.) My wife and I, and my good friend Ben went on a trip to China/Taiwan Oct 19-Nov […]

Honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest

8 November, 2008 (10:21) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

I’m very tickled!  I’ve received a letter that I’ve been given a honorable mention for a short story called “Honolulu Hottie”, a Hawaiian cyberpunk story about a security guard who gets mixed up with a woman (the hottie) who is conducting corporate espionage to out a company that conspires to manipulate the pineapple market. What […]

Those that spam together, stay together

19 October, 2008 (20:31) | Uncategorized | By: Lancer Kind

We’ve all received spam from social network sites–classmates, facebook, myspace, linked-in, gmail invitations, … etc. The interesting thing about this kind of spam is that it’s really your friends spamming you: they sign up for a site, and the site collects your friend’s addresses and sends them spams so they can sign up and be […]