The Crotchety Old Fan

This morning’s Google Reader roundup brings yet another declaration of science fiction’s slow and agonizing, death rattle infused, demise, this time in the form of commentary from Amy Sterling Casil over at the Book View Cafe’s Blog site (via Charles Tan’s link roundup).
I have decided that enough is enough.  Most of this prognostication and eulogizing [...]

Well, it has taken me over a year, but I finally discovered what the “schedule a post” option in wordpress is good for.
Up till now I’ve gone on spasms of hunting for SF video and audio content, added a bunch of pages to Classic SF Channel and then let it lay dormant until the next [...]

Please note – there are no ‘Ks’ in the title.
I’ve received several invites to various sites and blogs lately and noticed that one of the authors does not live all that far away from me.  This reminded me that for some time I’ve been wanting to hook up with like-minded blogging individuals in the real [...]

Working hard on websites. Who knew wrestling with themes and plugins could be so much…fun?

Lord knows that I am absolutely not any kind of expert on anything relating to the aracana of blog relates coding.  I can (sometimes) figure out the right (copied) PHP code to drop in to make something happen, I can (sometimes) figure out how to change some parameters in a CMS file.  I can usually [...]

Yesterday, David Dyer-Bennett jumped on Gary Farber’s proofreading wagon when he pointed out in the comments that “Lots” (as in many) does not have an apostrophe between the t and the s.  I was not talking about biblical characters, nor was I in any way using lot in a possessive manner.
As I noted to David, [...]

Thanks to those who have commented on the new look in a positive way.
The new theme is Hybrid News, which I started playing with for yet another blog I’m building, one which should have been up and running this past Friday.  It is a local news ‘blog’ that represents  my attempt to “think local and [...]

Multiple persons(?) from the Google Group SFNovelists have popped onto the blog since yesterday.  This is a “must be invited, members only” group and I can not find a description for it on google or on google groups.
I haven’t written anything about San Francisco, and scribblings about California in general are rare here, so I [...]

Anyone who visits this blog is well aware that the world is a very strange place.
Let me rephrase.  The human race is a very strange species and the tribe that calls itself American is amongst the oddest.
For those who are not yet fully cognizant of this fact: find a chair with a seat belt, remove [...]

I’m sure there’s plenty of interesting genre related stuff happening today, but I haven’t managed to run across it.
I have been pretty busy. I finally got my new website up and running and really haven’t had a chance to look into SF stuff today.
The new website is a mundane effort, a very, very local news [...]