30 October 2006

The weekend was uneventful aside from seeming to be a huge waste of time. I won’t go into it now so you don’t have to worry about any complaining. You might notice that I created a page titled ‘The Stories’ that you can see up top in the menu bar. This is where I will …

October 27th, 2006

Maybe it is writer’s block or maybe it is an unimaginative stupor, but I have a hard time titling day to day entries like this one. It is not about anything in particular and is just a random update, so that is probably the reason. Any who, National Guard duty this weekend. Going to do …

The Dog

His eyes were open but he could not see. He tried and tried, vainly squinting his eyes. Slowly he began to see swirls of primary colors that melted into more. He squeezed his eyes harder and slowly shook his aching head side to side. The pain! The throbbing pain! It stormed through his skull like …

OLPC – One Laptop Per Child

If you haven’t yet heard of the $100 Laptop then you must be hiding under a rock. A man by the name of Nicholas Negroponte started an initiative to provide every child with “a flexible, ultra low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the emerging world can leapfrog decades of development—immediately transforming …

The Lock

 It felt heavy. The hardened steel loop, the worn brass shell, and the ‘Master’ logo stamped on the sides. It was a combination lock with four dials and the usual set of numbers. His father had it on a shelf above his desk ever since he got back from that long business trip he left …

Plots

All stories can be sufficiently put into a few categories. As with many attempts to categorize, there are different and sometimes conflicting versions. I have taken the liberty of setting the different categorizations together in one Plot Tree. Keep in mind that this is boiled down and doesn’t attempt to represent variations of the same plot, …