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New Site Pages: Stories & FAQ

New Site Pages: Stories & FAQ

Quick update for all those who don’t regularly stare at the top menu-bar of this site: I recently posted up two new static pages for the site! One is a Stories page.  It has a list with links to all of the stories I currently have out and available (all 1 and ½ of them!).  And the other is an FAQ page.  It is currently populated with answers to three questions nobody’s ever actually asked me before! I am doing…

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Light at the End of the Burnout

Light at the End of the Burnout

So, here’s a crazy thing.  I’m writing this on a Wednesday, and as I left work today I was actually feeling a little excited about my job. This shouldn’t be a crazy thing.  I work in Astronomy, as a Scientific Programmer, which is a combination of two things I really, really like and am good at.  However, for a variety of reasons, not all of them to do directly with my job (you can probably guess one or two), the…

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Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

These stories are all apropos of nothing.  I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1  How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this.  It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…

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