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Audiobooks? Really, Dad?

If you've never listened to an audiobook, especially on your commute, you might be making your life unnecessarily miserable. Or maybe you are just missing out on unexplored worlds. Read this post and see if you agree. And if you already love audiobooks, share this post so your friends won't miss out and then tell me what your favorite books are!

Writing Tips #1: Where to Start

If you want to write stories but don't know where to start, here is a suggestion. This did the trick for me. It's not complicated and if you are anything like me, you'll enjoy it. I'll follow-up this post with a new one each week geared to help you keep moving forward.

The Sexual Dysfunctions of Planet Zeronius

One night while lamenting my stack of rejections from contests, agents, and publishers, I had a thought. What if a struggling, unknown writer was notified they had won an inter-galactic writing contest?

Slumber

I've always been intrigued with this quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: "What we experience in dreams -- assuming that we experience it often -- belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced..." I made me wonder, If somebody dreamed a full, vivid lifetime in one night, how would it change them?

The Bully You Can’t Stop: Personal Denial of Service (DOS) Attacks

My son is a professional video gamer (blows me away he can make a living playing Call of Duty) and we were recently the target of a DOS attack. We were at the mercy of a cyber bully who could take down the internet to our house at will.

SWATTED in Lake Stevens

An otherwise calm evening at home ended with our house being surrounded by a SWAT team. I walked out the door and had 5 assault rifles pointed at me. No, this isn't the start of a short story.

Her

"Her" was directed and written by Spike Jonze and stars Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. I give it 5 golden nuggets (of five). It set my brain on fire with ideas, something I did not expect.