“Oh,” Missy said, “you know the Doctor always is always a flirt.” She smirked and raised her hands in a careless shrug. “Who cares where he gets his appetite so long as he eats at home.” She punctuated the sentence with a ferocious snap of her teeth, just an inch from River’s nose, and then the smile returned, buoyed…

So, like, if Sliders had been intentionally funny.

Every book needs an editor. I tend to avoid self-published books explicitly because they’re poorly edited. An author that wants to self-publish needs to come up with a budget to cover the costs of publishing, and an editor is not an optional expense. You can do the typesetting, prepress and ebooks yourself and get…

No- marketing is fucking hard. You need to assemble a marketing budget. That has to be part of your publishing strategy. You need to do some blogtours, do some giveaways, buy some ads, etc.

It doesn’t matter how good your book is, nobody’s going to even know it exists unless you tell them. SHILL SHILL SHILL!

My wife…

I know he’s not in the comics, but I really got the sense that MCU Falcon is gay. You know he’d totally go for Cap, but knows Steve isn’t interested.

Thor 2 wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible. It just… sorta… happened.

I think an earlier io9 article kinda addressed that, and raised a good point: everything S2 did well, other things have done much better. LA-based noir has been explored to death and executed far better.

The demon was sweet. Great monster design, and the use of CG on the monster itself was good. Yes, the electromocution CG was terrible, and I could have done without that, but the way the monster flickered was sweet.

My Star Trek-themed improv team, USS Improvise has a lot of very experienced musical improvisers on it. We can do a very special musical episode, but only if Mr. Shatner drops in to do a number with us.

I started watching it, had too much to drink, paused it, picked it back up the next day, completely forgetting anything I had seen the night before, and I don’t think I actually missed anything.

Alright, here’s my question: I have a bunch of games that are shit with keyboard and mouse because they were designed for a gamepad, but I don’t have a gamepad, and don’t generally play games with a gamepad. I’d also like to use this to play Tie-Fighter: Collector’s CD Edition.

Alright, here’s my question: I have a bunch of games that are shit with keyboard and mouse because they were…

Earlier this year, I shared by version of the Worst. Boss. Ever. for an IT job.

I started it once, ages ago, but got so bogged down by world building I never finished it.

Are you Satan?

It’s dorky, but I have a character in a long-running Star Trek RPG that is a species which changes sex on a period cycle like mammals menstruate, swinging from male and female to neuter (which is actually the most libidinous phase, based around the theory that sex is more for social bonds than procreation). It’s a fun…

When your superpower is speed, every problem starts to look like premature ejaculation.

Can I shill for somebody else for a moment? There’s another cool book, that technically came out in October, but it’s a slow-burn, self-published deal. The first book in the “Sword and Starship” series, Blood’s Force, is a genre cauldron of sci-fi, fantasy, noir, and a little Connecticut Yankee.

Generally, I use a 3-tuple Markov chain generator to write my Nano. The hardest part, of course, is seeding it with a corpus, but that only takes a few minutes. I can then generate as many novels as I like, of any reasonable length, in trivial amounts of time.

It’s more that rat helminths evolved to live in rats, not humans. And if you’re giving people an unapproved, untested supplement, it’s probably best if you give them one that doesn’t colonize their body which could lead to long term consequences that are poorly understood and could lead to negative health events.

Magma is fucking awesome. I learned about them from Jodorowsky’s Dune. Fucking great shit.