Jan 23
Although I’m not too big on leaving the house, I attended this talk by Robert J. Sawyer and William Gibson at the Toronto Reference Library. Aside from trips to the tailor and organizing my cupboards, This is the sort of thing I get excited about. I’ve been wanting to see these two in conversation for years. Reason …
Jan 07
Some of you might remember the Philip K. Dick robot that went missing. As a fan of science fiction and the strange, I posted about this weird incident back in 2006. Well, this creature has been rebuilt. Hanson Robotics just rebuilt the Philip K. Dick Android! To replace the android that we lost in 2005, …
Dec 22
I’ve put some hours in and made an illustrated, tumblr version of Guy Debord’s 1967 book The Society of the Spectacle. You can find the first post here. When you finish reading it, simply hit NEWER and it’ll bring you to the next paragraph. Some of you are probably familiar with the book. Others of …
Dec 12
I interviewed Michael Williams of A Continous Lean for The National Post. The piece ran this weekend. You can find the interview here. Don’t really have much to add to that so . . .
Dec 09
I want to give you some background. Be patient. My reasoning will, I hope, become clear. Before I was published, I walked into Bakka Books and was recommended a novel by Minister Faust. Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad. I read it and cursed him out. It was the book I wished I …
Nov 18
Mapping the Republic of Letters is a Stanford University project to map the intellectual correspondence of the Enlightenment. Brain Pickings says: The project pulls data from the Electronic Enlightenment database, an archive of more than 55,000 letters and documents exchanged between 6,400 correspondents, and maps the geographic origin and destination of the correspondence — something we’ve come to take …
Oct 24
Having my book launch and doing my first reading was a lot like losing my virginity. Except I was sober, did not ejaculate in my pants and no one cried. But both experiences were discombobulating. So far, every authorial moment has been very different than advertised. I’ve received the acceptance letter and signed the contract, gone through the edits, …
Sep 03
Not sure if I’m going to make a habit of doing this but here’s a review of my book from Zannova. It’s the first time I’ve ever read a review of my work so that seems notable. I don’t want to say much about it because reviewing a review is just getting too far away …
Aug 20
It’s supposed to be one of the big moments. You write a book, sell it, edit it then, after years of doing all that, finally get to hold the thing. You’ve joined humanity’s library. Most young writers imagine this as their ‘I arrived’ moment and I suppose I was, once upon a time, much the …
