Patrick Chiles's Blog, page 27
July 11, 2012
Free at Last
My exclusivity agreement with Amazon for Perigee ends today, so it’s now available for Nook readers through Barnes & Noble’s website. Kindle Select was a great deal when it started, but it’s been time to move on for a while. Free promos were a good way to build readership, especially when they counted against your [...]
July 10, 2012
What I Did On Summer Vacation
Took on a construction job for no pay, that’s what. Behold: Had to burn up some vaca before the end of the month, and we needed to replace the P.O.S 4×4 back porch that came with our house, so there you have it. An aside: in what universe does it make sense to sell someone [...]
July 5, 2012
More Belated Birthday Thoughts
Via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit:
Better Late Than Never
Happy Birthday, America. Now Rock On…
June 29, 2012
The Day After
Surprise! We didn’t get our preferred outcome yesterday, but the sun came up this morning anyway. And I don’t have any more thoughts (intelligent or otherwise) on the Obamacare ruling. Fortunately, Dr. Krauthammer does. Taking a sober look at the long view, he explains how this was Justice Roberts’ “Nixon to China” moment: It is [...]
June 28, 2012
Fly Me to the Moon
Suborbital hops into space and back not enough of an adrenaline surge? Bored with flying in circles aboard the space station? Clearly, you are a discerning traveler who can be satisfied with nothing less than the most unique experience. Or maybe you’re just a gold-plated pain in the @$$. If you’ve got the money, it [...]
Nothing political going on here. Move along. All is well!
Not. Okay, I can’t not post something about the Obamacare ruling. This is stunning, not to put too fine a point on it. I had tried very hard not to get my hopes up too much, because it just doesn’t do any good to try and make predictions about such an opaque institution. The Justices [...]
June 21, 2012
T-Minus Eight Years And Counting
It’s been eight long years since SpaceShipOne became the first privately-built spacecraft to actually fly into space, thus earning the title of…spacecraft. OK, so that’s redundant. My kids have been making me watch too much Austin Powers (allow myself to introduce…myself). Not being content with making history just once, Rutan and Co. went on to [...]
Back in the Saddle and More Sneak Previews
Sorry for the long blog break. I’ve been neck-deep in projects at home and really needed to jumpstart the Perigee sequel. Life would be so much more productive without sleep, but I ain’t getting any younger. For your reading pleasure, here’s another random excerpt from Terminal Velocity: Melbourne, Florida “What’s that?” Tommy Hunter had pulled [...]
June 4, 2012
Aw, Screw It
I’ve spent enough time on the internet to become absolutely convinced that the world is ending, and that The Man isn’t telling us about it. Seriously. Might be a zombie outbreak, might be an unavoidable collision with some wandering celestial body, or maybe it’s some combination of the two: that is, alien invasion! When a [...]
