An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
It’s been a struggle to get the 9-year-old to read books that aren’t graphic novels. (Nothing wrong with graphic novels, but I’m a novelist and would love to get the kid hooked on pure text novels if I can.) Anyway, the kid loves to check little free libraries when we pass them…
The other night, we passed a little free library with several Animorphs novels, which reminded me I have all the e-books and have been meaning to read them. Continue reading “Starting to Read Animorphs”
When I was a kid, my dad would let my sister and me pick three things, and then he’d tell us a bedtime story about those things.
I’ve been playing with AI artists a lot lately, and I can see, some day, we’ll be able to do the same thing with an AI storyteller. Continue reading “In the Style of…”
I decided to run a comparison of the different AI artists using the title of my first book, “Otters In Space.”
So, organized by number of otters in them: Continue reading “Comparing Three AI Art Programs”
My kid was trying to get up the courage to ask their teacher for help with something, so I asked Midjourney to “imagine courage,” so I could send them some courage. This is what I got:
The kid’s teacher was busy with another student, so I asked Midjourney to “imagine patience,” so I could send some patience along to them as well. Continue reading “Midjourney Illustrates Feelings”
I’m trying to complete Shadowmoon Valley for Loremaster in Warcraft, and so far in this zone, quests can show up on the map but not in front of me because:
-I’m wearing the wrong hat
-I didn’t think to use a flare gun
-it’s actually an item dropped by a guy I need to kill
Grrr.
I just found out that the reason my older kid’s best friend’s mom has been weird toward us for years, causing my kid pain and randomly excluding them at times, is because I’m a furry. Continue reading “Furry is Everywhere”
My Ursa Major Award for “Where Have All the Mousies Gone” came!!!
At least, according to Midjourney.
Imagine if dogs and cats were real, and you could see videos of them, but only got to meet one in person for one hour, once during your life.
You hit it off immediately and have so much fun… but they’re not pets.
This is how I feel about meeting Tiberius the octopus yesterday.
You know how your brain can have sudden ridiculous thoughts that make no sense?
I’m heading to the coast for an octopus encounter at an aquarium, and my brain just thought: “Oh no, should I have brought a copy of my book with an octopus on the cover… for the octopus to autograph?” Continue reading “Meeting Tiberius”