ShadowBytes is a new webcomic from Patrick Hester and Clifton Hill. New episodes appear every Tuesday and Thursdays on the Webcomic website.
“So you’re saying that the journey is key, not the destination.” – Kate This sentiment – expressed in the very beginning of Mur Lafferty‘s Heaven – echos heavily throughout the novella. After dying in a car crash, best friends Kate and Daniel find out death isn’t what they expected. While they’re both superficially happy [...]
An invitation to the 8th annual 24 Hour Comic Day: This Saturday, October 1. The dare: To complete a 24 page comic book in 24 continuous hours. Back in 1990 comic artist Scott McCloud thought of a creative exercise to improve his drawing speed. He decided to challenge himself (and fellow comic artist Steve Bissette) [...]
I’ve been invited to co-host The Geeky Pleasures Radio Show tonight at 8 PM Mountain / 10 PM Eastern. About the show: Julia “Jules” Sherred is a mother, writer, author, radio personality, blogger, gamer, tech enthusiast, science nerd, sci-fi and fantasy freak, hard core Trekker, has an unnatural obsession with Optimus Prime and so much [...]
ShadowBytes is a new webcomic from Patrick Hester and Clifton Hill. New episodes appear every Tuesday and Thursdays on the Webcomic website.
Welcome to All Things From My Brain. Bottled Water. It’s hot, freaking hot. The A/C in your car doesn’t seem able to keep up with the heat bubbling up from the blacktop-road, causing sweat to bead on your forehead, in your armpits and, let’s face it – some other places you probably don’t want to [...]
“Ah!” Malagigi’s eyes flickered over the three staffs of power we carried—the staffs that were our Prospero Family legacy: Gregor’s Staff of Darkness, Erasmus’s Staff of Decay , and my flute, The Staff of Winds—before coming to rest upon Durandel riding in its sheath at Erasmus’s side. Softly, he murmured. “Maybe, with [...]
In episode 73 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians and The Magician King, both available from Viking. Links: Lev Grossman (author’s website) The Magicians The Magician King Lev Grossman on Twitter Lev Grossman on Facebook Lev Grossman at Time Magazine © 2011 Patrick [...]
Are you afraid of the gym? Do you feel threatened by the beefy people filling the free weight room? Do you get intimidated by the amount of weight someone else is lifting? Do you often skip exercises or alter your workout because you are intimidated to use a piece of equipment or to ask to [...]
ShadowBytes is a new webcomic from Patrick Hester and Clifton Hill. New episodes appear every Tuesday and Thursdays on the Webcomic website.
Once you begin to work with multiple computers, smart phones, and other devices, you might find yourself needing a file on one system that you last opened on another system. As a writer, I find this happens to me all the time. I often start a story on my desktop computer but later need it [...]
This review originally appeared on the Femme Gamer blog and is reprinted with the permission of the author. Platform: Playstation 3 ASIN: B002I0GX88 ESRB Rating: Teen Blood Drug Reference Language Sexual Themes Use of Alcohol Violence Developer: Sucker Punch Productions Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Release Date: June 7, 2011 Infamous 2 is the follow-up [...]
In episode 72 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio take some time to chat about nerdy things for a change. These include: what we’re reading, Google +, Twitter, Tweetdeck, Facebook, the projects we’re working on, etc and so on. Later, John brings us an interview with Lisa Paitz Spindler, author of [...]
Hello again. A few months ago, I looked at three movies that were directly or indirectly inspired by Philip K. Dick. With the summer season drawing toward a close, I thought I would look at three more movies, the Marvel comic book movies X-Men First Class, Thor, and most recently, Captain America. I discovered an [...]
ShadowBytes is a new webcomic from Patrick Hester and Clifton Hill. New episodes appear every Tuesday and Thursdays on the Webcomic website.
Welcome to All Things From My Brain. Text Messaging. Remember when text messaging was free? I do. The concept of the text message is a simple one – you have 140 characters or less to relay a message from yourself to someone else. The message flies wirelessly from your phone, through the air and to [...]
Publisher: Spectra ISBN-10: 0345520858 ISBN-13: 978-0345520852 Nights of Villjamur Mark Charan Newton Shrouded in snow and ice, and facing the threat of an endless winter, the city of Villjamur is–understandably–under a great deal of stress. Refugees stream from all over the Empire, the Emperor is mad and paranoid, councilors are being murdered, cultist tensions are [...]
In Episode 71 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with Author and fellow podcaster, Moses Siregar III. Moses’ debut novel, The Back Gods War, is generating a lot of buzz within the SFF community, and we chat with Moses about the book, about self-promotion, do it yourself [...]
ShadowBytes is a new webcomic from Patrick Hester and Clifton Hill. New episodes appear every Tuesday and Thursdays on the Webcomic website.
I love living in the future. I get woken up in the morning by my hand-held personal computer / communications device, which is programmed to notify me via sound and vibration at the exact moment I want to be awake. Without getting out of bed I can slide my finger across the touch-sensitive screen, and [...]
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