Category Archives: Random

The Genesis of A Novel Isn’t That Important

“Whenever I begin a novel,” he said, “the beginning never stays at the beginning. It ends up in the middle, or near the end. It never stays put where I started.” That is an interesting quote from Philip Graham’s latest post on writing a novel and how to approach it. It’s eye opening to me …

September 5, 2010 – 8:39 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Writing A Lot

I ran across this post today on Hacker News. The short synopsis of the post is Sebastian explaining how he writes so much but it’s definitely worth reading the whole thing. I wanted to consider a couple of thoughts he brings up. For the 4 or 5 people who still regularly check in here, it …

September 4, 2010 – 9:47 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Escaping The Cozy

Not too long ago, I went out to my vegetable garden to fertilize all the plants. I have events on my phone’s calendar that reminds me when it is time to fertilizer particular things in our yard. After I was done, I left the bag of fertilizer on the grill shelf outside because I knew …

July 8, 2010 – 6:39 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Wasting Time

I have a confession to make: I’m a time waster. But worse than that, I hate it when other people waste time even though I have a strong tendency to do exactly the same thing whenever I sit down in front of the computer. Regardless of my hypocrisy, I’d prefer to not be a time …

May 19, 2010 – 7:45 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (0)

Gun Porn

Something at least 2 of my 4 readers can agree on. This is one bad-ass looking gun.

February 9, 2010 – 6:30 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (6)

Does Our Whininess Have No End?

Whole Foods is implementing a plan to give a bigger employee discount to employees that don’t smoke, have lower blood pressure and have a BMI under 30. Naturally, people are whining about discrimination. This includes one quote that I can’t possibly do justice to other than to reproduce it in full: “Why are you rewarding …

February 7, 2010 – 3:21 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Something Else To Do

Sometimes you do strange things on Sundays with spare time on your hands. I took a defunct blog my wife and I never bothered with and turned it into a photoblog. My current plan is to post a picture every Sunday at least with other random posts showing up as I run into things worth …

January 10, 2010 – 9:25 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Disappearing

Apparently, my quitting Twitter didn’t cure whatever it is that has been keeping me from writing. It’s been quiet around here, quiet around my tech blog and quiet on the writing front in general. In fact, I went back and looked and I haven’t really been doing any writing since July. It’s not for lack …

January 9, 2010 – 6:30 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (2)

On Debt

When historians look back on the current time period, they will notice many things but I think the main thing they will find interesting and worthy of study is our penchant for debt. We, specifically Americans but generally all civilized people in this time period, thrive on debt of all kinds. It will be our …

October 13, 2009 – 5:50 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (4)

The Best Sentence You’ll Read For At Least Six Days

Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in an abandoned grain silo by a band of feral raccoons, and if Mike Davis were the communications director of a heavily armed libertarian survivalist cult, and if the two of them …

July 31, 2009 – 8:01 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)