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I don’t remember the name of this comic strip, but as a Doctor Who fan, I find it hilarious.

Those of you who have read the Raven of Iskandar Books (Raven: The Call from Central; Raven: Mirabelle; Raven: The Triballi Incident) would have noticed that the preface of each book is a continuing story of 102 year old Raven. Raven: Necris continues the story, however, by the time I’d gotten to the end, IContinue reading “Raven: Necris – Now at 60,000 words”

You’ve probably noticed that in the Raven of Iskandar series that I exclusively use metric units (centimeter, meter, kilometer). For someone who was raised with the English system of units (inch, foot, mile), it’s not difficult to do the translation, but difficult to remember to do the translation. Sometimes, while editing, I’ll find numerous referencesContinue reading “Size Matters”

Early this morning I had to scrap frost off my windshield, so I figured that it’s time for a picture of this rose which I took yesterday.

This cartoon is from the currently suspended (for several years) strip ‘User Friendly’. It was about the workers in a Canadian Internet provider. It ran from 1997 to 2010, the last year and a half of that run was intermittent. Due to the age, some of the jokes are quite dated. However! This strip givesContinue reading “Boxers or Briefs?”