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Tate Publishing Closes It’s Doors

Came across this article about Tate Publishing closing its doors and quite frankly was shocked. What shocked me was the implication they were a vanity publisher or not exactly a publisher. Here are some quotes which made me believe that. Mary Detweiler, an author from southeastern Pennsylvania, has published four…

Roland HughesJanuary 31, 2017October 11, 2017

Fiction Science Fiction Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Another Doctor Falls

A friend sent me a link today announcing that Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat will both be leaving “Dr. Who” in 2017. I really fear for the life of the show with Mr. Moffat leaving, but, there is only so much of a person to go around. Eight years is…

Roland HughesJanuary 31, 2017October 11, 2017

Experience Stories

Rich-ish

This idea hit me while I was buying a mega zillionaire ticket around lunch time. Got joking around with the young girl behind the counter about how winning would be a bad thing since the State of Illinois would never get around to actually paying the debt. Our current elected…

Roland HughesJanuary 30, 2017October 11, 2017

Experience Fiction Science Fiction Technology

Authors Need to Write About CRISPR Now!

Works of fiction and facts of history have long been absorbed by both lunatics and cultures attempting to create “the perfect” of a species. It is a topic which seems to drive the most unstable of creatures into positions of power so they can attempt their dream of a perfect…

Roland HughesJanuary 29, 2017October 11, 2017

Experience Technology

The Best Desk I’ll Never Have Again

We get crankier and pickier as we get older. It doesn’t help that I was eating my Halo oranges, taking my vitamins, eating some apples and knocking back orange juice yet still caught the creeping crude family members were passing around. I have had the big red monster for nearly…

Roland HughesJanuary 25, 2017October 10, 2017

Conspiracy Experience Society

Does New Yorker Magazine Have Any Reason to Exist?

On November 13, 2016 I caught the beginning of The New Yorker Radio Hour on WBEZ out of Chicago. I have _never_, even on CNN, which is really saying something, heard 3 people more out of touch with American than the 3 trying to convince the world they were right,…

Roland HughesJanuary 22, 2017October 10, 2017

Experience Technology

Do You Remember Email Blackout Periods?

It is rather amazing to be old enough to remember corporate mandated email blackout times. Yes younglings, there was a time when corporations would deliberately shut down their email servers for several hours during the day. Some would take them down, at least for internal access, two hours in the…

Roland HughesJanuary 20, 2017January 28, 2024