Posts Tagged ‘ functional nerds ’

Drink and Draw: My Contributions

July 16, 2011
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Drink and Draw: My Contributions

So, last night was the #drinkanddraw event cohosted by the Functional Nerds, Andy Romine and Galen Dara.  The concept was simple, and I was willing and eager to participate.  I have been known to doodle when out with friends (or I make paper airplanes), so this event really appealed to me. When I started,...

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Random thoughts for whatever today is

July 27, 2010
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/begin random thoughts So.  The bag has been tipped over and the cat is loose.  John Anealio and I have been tapped to do a new podcast for sfsignal.com.  On top of that, I’ll be writing for sfsignal.com a couple times a month. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and...

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Random Thoughts for July 14th 2010

July 14, 2010
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/begin random thoughts I pitched an idea to someone and they liked it so I’ll probably start something new here shortly. More on that later… * * * Networking is important no matter what you do for a living.  Meeting new people, making connections – it can be the difference between something happening or...

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Random Thoughts for July 13th 2010

July 13, 2010
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/begin random thoughts I’ve been offline more lately than is usual.  Well, I say offline but really I am still online, I’m just staying focused on the tasks at hand and not doing as much Twitter as people are accustomed to seeing from me.  That’s because I’ve been writing. A lot. The whole point...

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John Picacio – Art nerd?

June 28, 2010
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Once again, my friend John Anealio and I had the privilege of hosting a fantastic guest over on the Functional Nerds podcast. John Picacio is an award winning artist who has put together some of the most memorable cover art I’ve seen in a long time. His covers grace books from many different publishers,...

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Mur Lafferty and the Skype conversation from Hell

June 14, 2010
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Last week, John Anealio and I hosted the great Mur Lafferty for the Functional Nerds podcast. Despite Skype continually failing us (30 second random silences, disconnects, more 30 second random silences, more disconnects), we had a really good conversation. Mur began podcasting in 04 so she is more than a little acquainted with the...

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Nerdcore, Hipster Please and the Gandalf look

June 7, 2010
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Nerdcore, Hipster Please and the Gandalf look

Over on the Functional Nerds site, John Anealio and I had the opportunity to chat with Z (Hipster, Please) from the Wired GeekDad Hiptrax podcast. What a fantastic little show that was. I never know what is going to happen when I hit that record button; I’m sure it’s going to be good, I...

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Andrew Liptak, Military SciFi & the occasional Skype malfunction

June 1, 2010
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Last week over on the Functional Nerds podcast, John Anealio and I had a chance to shoot the shit with Andrew Liptak (twitter.com/AndrewLiptak); blogger and military historian – among many other things. His take on what is and what isn’t military scifi is an interesting one.  For example, he considers the original Dune to...

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Podcast – chatting with Lou Anders

May 22, 2010
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You know, since I started this whole blogger/podcaster/twitter/online life sort of thing, I have to say that I have been incredibly lucky in that the people I have met have been fantastic. The first famous writer I had a chance to confab with, L.E. Modesitt Jr., couldn’t have been a warmer, more personable guy. ...

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The Blake Charlton Podcast

May 10, 2010
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Had a great time with Blake Charlton and John Anealio last week over on the Functional Nerds podcast. Since Blake is both an author and a medical student, it gave us the opportunity to branch out a little bit and talk about more serious stuff – like the human brain. Blake was able to...

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