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...
I little while ago, I put up a post saying that I’d like to blog for you (That offer is still open, btw). Essentially, the idea was that I would write a guest post for your blog and you would write one for mine. You pick the topic I write...
I figured it was time to do some writing updates, since that’s what all of this is really about. Funny enough, the genesis for this piece lies lies in the live episode of ‘I should be writing’ from Mur Lafferty. They were...
When was the last time you gave someone a compliment? I’ve noticed that people tend to complain more than they compliment, which bothers me on so many different levels. The old saying goes, ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease’...
/Begin random thoughts. I freely admit there are things that I do not understand. Today, let’s look at fast food restaurants. For example – what’s with the ‘end of the drive thru’ garbage can? I mean, who thought...
At the tender age of six years old, Harry Dresden became an orphan. His mother, Margaret Gwendolyn LeFay McCoy Dresden, had died giving birth to Harry and his father, Malcolm, died of a brain aneurysm leaving Harry all alone. For a few years...
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...
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...
One of my favorite characters in the Batman universe is Dick Grayson. Dick Grayson was the youngest member of a circus highwire act known as ‘The Flying Graysons’. When his family was killed right in front of him, it struck Bruce...
Rumors abound regarding all of the comic books movies coming down the pipe and Superman 2 (or is it 6?) is on the list. But the reboot of Superman didn’t do so well, remember?
© 2010 Patrick Hester, All Rights Reserved I knew I had a problem the moment I walked through the sliding doors at the Mega-lo-mart and saw Zombies eating people. Now, the President of these United States had just been on the idiot box telling us...
Luke Skywalker; last of the Jedi. Destined to return balance to the Force. That’s a difficult legacy to be a part of. Son of Anakin Skywalker and twin brother to Leia Skywalker, raised as an Organa, a lot was expected from Luke. You see...
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