So, Recently…
Did you notice that the year is almost one-third over already? Yeah. Fast, huh? I have been bad about keeping up with our lives on here, so here are some recent things that have happened: * Yesterday we put the…
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Meet Lucy and Penny
On Friday, Kyle and I got baby chicks. We bought two little chickens, a Rhode Island Red named Lucy (after Lucille Ball, another comical red head) and a Silver Laced Wyandotte named Penelope, or Penny for short. We brought them…
Short Story: End of the Line
My short story “End of the Line” is in the 2010 issue of So to Speak. Published by George Mason University, So to Speak is a feminist journal of language of art. “End of the Line” is about an old…
Pay Your Writers
This is so true. Writers, don’t work for free.
Short Fiction: Pie Man
“Pie Man,” a piece of microfiction that I wrote, is in the current issue of Rumble Magazine. Check it out: Pie Man The rest of the Tiger Woods Issue. ETA: This is not about Kyle and me. This is a…
Article: Give ’em enough rope…
Happy Halloween! Take a look at my most recent article for the Pacific Sun about the last public hanging in Marin County. It resulted in a near-riot as a bloodthirsty crowd watched the hanging of a Chinese man. Sample: On…
Kyle is Interviewed
iSeries 400 has an interview with Kyle about his book, The Official Ubuntu Server Book. They ask him technical questions that sound complicated. A sample: In chapter three, “Package Management,” you mention that packaging is usually done by distributions such…
Back From Portland
I’m back from a trip to Portland. It has been so hot around here this summer that I half-intended to move to Portland so I can remember what rain is like, but I’m over that now. However, we had a…
Kyle Gives A(nother) Speech
Kyle Rankin on His Career in Linux Networking from Sam Bowne on Vimeo. This is a video of the speech Kyle gave last night at City College San Francisco. It is about how to be a Linux System Administrator.
Article: Shadow City
I have an article in the Pacific Sun this week. It’s about how the town of Tiburon is looking at putting cameras on the roads going into town to scan the license plates of all its visitors. The fortress of…