S.G. Basu's Blog, page 30
August 18, 2015
Jeff Bezos Assures Amazon Employees That HR Working 100 Hours A Week To Address Their Complaints
The Onion weighs in: SEATTLE—In response to accusations of an abusive workplace environment, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos assured employees Tuesday that the company’s human resources staff was working 100 hours a week to address their complaints. “I’ve heard your grievances,…Read more ›
The Amazon Workplace Brouhaha
I have been out on vacation land for the last few days and been reading the Amazon workplace debate raging all over the interwebs. For a while I did not think I had time to comment and then a part…Read more ›
August 16, 2015
Swimming Under Water
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
August 12, 2015
Amazon Prime–Tugging At Heartstrings
Adorable, ain’t it?
August 10, 2015
Booklaunch.io–A Review
A few months ago, I came to know of a service called Booklaunch.io. They were offering gorgeous landing pages for books at a very enticing price–FREE. Let me explain the landing page before I get further ahead–it is a webpage…Read more ›
August 9, 2015
No One Ever
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” ~Ernest Hemingway
August 8, 2015
Grammar Demons, Take That (Part 14)
A fun infographic from Grammar.net about modal verbs. What are Auxiliary and Modal Verbs? Auxiliary verbs are “helper verbs” used in combination with other verbs to assist in stating tone, tense, condition/state, voice or mood. A modal verb is a…Read more ›
August 7, 2015
The Dark Side Of The Moon
From NASA: A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the…Read more ›
August 6, 2015
Did You Know?
For many, Arthur C. Clarke brings to mind the haunting and evocative scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Obviously there’s a reason why the movie is a cult favorite, it is simply spellbinding. For me though, the fascination with Sir…Read more ›
August 5, 2015
A Writers’ Group Exercise–Learning Your Genre And Others’ Too
At my writers’ group/critique group, we have embarked on a quest of learning more about genres. Not just the genre we write in ourself, but about each others genres as well. It is a fact well known that literary writers…Read more ›
