Since my recent post about my new Kindle, I have been thinking a lot about technology. On Saturday night the kids and I had a chew-and-view. We ate tortellini and watched Shrek the Third, renting the movie on my laptop from amazon instant play and having it transmitted to the TV. Who needs Netflix? I don’t even need to wait for …
Unplugging
I’ve just come back from a few days away from Missouri. The children were not with me over Thanksgiving this year, and of course my family all live thousands of miles away, so there didn’t seem to be much point hanging around. Turkey for one, sir? So I took off, for a quick visit to Philadelphia – somewhere I’d never …
DIY Book Trailer
Last weekend the kids and I discovered a new website, xtranormal, which is a brilliant place where anyone can make movies simply by typing in dialogue and having characters speak it. I have seen several extremely funny videos made this way, including this one about writing a novel which I posted a while ago. Author Laura Zigman has made a whole …
Technology is a Wonderful Thing, Part 2
People occasionally roll their eyes when they learn that I get up every day at five o’clock to write, but it’s really very easy. All you need is a good coffee machine, like this one: I love my coffee machine. It is a truly wonderful thing. It’s made by Nespresso. I am sure that without it (and its predecessors) I …
Technology is a Wonderful Thing
No, really. I was listening to my new favorite podcast, the Checkout, a jazz show from WBGO in New Jersey, and they had an interview with Spike Wilner, who is manager of Small’s Jazz Club in Greenwich Village (as well as being a great pianist – check out this.) I’ve been itching to go to Small’s for the longest time …
Whether the Weather Be Hot. Or Not.
It’s been a nutty winter for weather, even by Missouri standards. The day my parents left the temperature was 20 degrees below zero, when the wind chill was taken into account – and yes, that’s Fahrenheit, if you were wondering. Exactly a week later it was 60 degrees and brilliant sunshine. With such unpredictable and extreme swings, it should …