It’s been a little while, and it’s roughly turkey time in the U.S., so I thought it might be good to give some thanks – while going over some of the many projects I’m currently working on, circa November 2018. (Actually, I just updated the ‘You Might Know Me From’ page with two of them, …
[Here’s the ‘side project to my side project’ StoryBundle I decided to curate a couple of months back – bundling some really neat ‘history of tech’ books together! Blown away that we got Fire In The Valley – a seminal history & the basis for Pirates Of Silicon Valley – in there, & there’s LOTS …
Presenting a special ‘Nerd History’ Storybundle! Read More »
Just a quick postscript to the recent post about uploading my idm netlabel Mono/Monotonik’s old music tracks to YouTube & to Soundcloud for easier streaming access. I mentioned in that post that Zach Bridier was preparing to upload a _complete_ Mono archive, with all the .MODs from the early releases also converted to .MP3. And …
It’s rare – in my advanced years – that I discover a new author that I’m completely enchanted by. But that’s just what has happened with author of ‘secret histories’ Tim Powers, after I got referred to his books by a Ron Gilbert article, and things spiraled out of control from there.
Over the past two or three months, I’ve become increasingly involved with a charity that I wanted to talk to you all about – and ask that you consider contributing to, if you believe in its cause. In fact, I’ve just finished redesigning the official website for the non-profit in question, the Prisoners Literature Project, …
Prisoners Literature Project – a cause worth supporting. Read More »
One of my favorite recent pastimes – simply because technology writing is now old enough – is to dive back into future-leaning writing of the 1980s and 1990s & see how things turned out. It turns out that book sales in the Bay Area are full of such ‘artifacts’. And Douglas Rushkoff’s Cyberia – originally …
It’s been a few months since I updated on this blog (although I’m a regular poster on Twitter, of course), so I thought it might be nice to do a brief update with the state of various ‘not my dayjob’ projects I’ve been working on. Let’s go: – Simon’s Email Musings – sparked by a …
Since most of the posts on this blog of late are about my side projects like Storybundle, perhaps it’s time to round up the totality of what I’m working on here in mid-2014. And it goes a little something like this: – I first attended GDC in the late ’90s when I lived in the …
Quick update here, but after the success of the Video Game Storybundle earlier this year, I’ve been working with the lovely Jason Chen and the Storybundle folks to curate follow-up bundles – and not just about games (although there is a second video game one coming!) The first fruits of this are here now, since …
Looks like the last one of these update posts was a year and a half ago, so thought it might be nice to give a little mini-update on what I’m up to, for those who don’t follow me a whole bunch on social media. Let’s see, some states of Simon: – Though I’m still working …
