These days, many women walk around playing with a Star Destroyer or coordinates to a wormhole and are often commanding a massive intergalactic space station that is capable of destroying a planet at the same time. Yet, that doesn’t mean you can’t talk to them. Of course, not all women are open to being approached …
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Smacked in the Face by Fairy Wings: What I Learned at the Tinkerbell Running Festival
Earlier this month I ran the Tinkerbell Half Marathon, one of the many fantasy themed races offered by Disney at their Disneyland and Disneyworld parks. Actually I did the Pixie Dust Challenge, which was the 10K on Saturday and the half marathon on Sunday. I was going to write a regular race report, as I …
Sample from my novel Crash Shadow – A Note
This is a sample section from my novel Crash Shadow, available on Amazon.com A note The passing traffic vibrated in her ears as she quickly walked down her street. The strings in her shoulders were twisting around. It was an unusually heavy commute on her street for that time of night. It wasn’t until she …
The new kid on the block Ello and open advice to Facebook
So there’s this new beta test social network called Ello that’s making some waves. It’s even being promoted all over Facebook. How big is the buzz? Despite the fact that you need an invite from an already registered member to join, Ello’s server got overloaded because of all the incoming traffic. Ello is trying to …
Race Report: Napa Valley Ragnar – Crazy From the Heat!
Last weekend I ran in the Napa Valley Ragnar Relay on the team 33 hours in Paradise. It was my 12th Ragnar overall and my 4th Napa Valley Ragnar. For those of you not familiar with a Ragnar Relay: The Ragnar Relay is a long-distance relay race a la’ Hood to Coast. The average team …
Half Riots In Berkeley? Moooo!
I have been training for the Berkeley Half Marathon, which takes place tomorrow. The city of Berkeley hasn’t had a major footrace since, well, forever as far as I know. This one should prove interesting though. For those of you unfamiliar with thee San Francisco Bay Area, you basically can’t drive around the block without …
Rules for Facebook Epitaphs
Inspired by a flurry of “RIP (a close friend of mine)” a few weeks ago amongst my Facebook circles for a longtime friend who was not actually in fact dead, but still very much alive, an event which caused a lot of people unwarranted anguish, frantic phone calls, and sleepless nights. 1.) When discovering a …