So here is the deal for those of you who still read this. I don't post here very often, and in that I am not a very good blogger. But I can tell that that I have not been idle while you waited for my next update.
This is just a short message to let you know what on July 4th me and a small group of others will be launching a brand new publishing company, Flying Island Press. More over on the 4th we will be releasing the first issue of our SciFi Magazine, Flagship. It will be available in both text and Audio formats. We are currently open for submissions for our second issue. For more details about it check out http://flyingislandpress.com
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Quotes
One of my favorite quotes about love of all time comes a odd source, the 1968 movie, Yours Mine and Ours. This Quote comes from late in the movie when the family is all together, but still trying to figure things out.
Colleen North: [Helen is about to have a baby] I know this is a terrible time to talk about it, but Larry says...
Frank Beardsley: I've got a message for Larry. You tell him this is what it's all about. This is the real happening. If you want to know what love really is, take a look around you.
HelenNorth: What are you two talking about?
Frank Beardsley: Take a good look at your mother.
HelenNorth: Not now!
Frank Beardsley: Yes, now.
[to Colleen]
Frank Beardsley: It's giving life that counts. Until you're ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won't keep it turning. Life isn't a love in, it's the dishes and the orthodontist and the shoe repairman and... ground round instead of roast beef. And I'll tell you something else: it isn't going to a bed with a man that proves you're in love with him; it's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful everyday world with him that counts.
[Leaving the house, they say good-bye to the little kids]
Frank Beardsley: I suppose having 19 kids is carrying it a bit too far, but if we had it to do over who would we skip... you?
HelenNorth: [getting into the car] Thank you, Frank. I never quite knew how to explain it to her.
Frank Beardsley: If we don't get you to the hospital fast, the rest of it's going to be explained right here!
And there you have it folks. That is what real love is.
Thanks to http://www.imdb.com for the quote you can find more from this movie in the quotes section here.
Colleen North: [Helen is about to have a baby] I know this is a terrible time to talk about it, but Larry says...
Frank Beardsley: I've got a message for Larry. You tell him this is what it's all about. This is the real happening. If you want to know what love really is, take a look around you.
HelenNorth: What are you two talking about?
Frank Beardsley: Take a good look at your mother.
HelenNorth: Not now!
Frank Beardsley: Yes, now.
[to Colleen]
Frank Beardsley: It's giving life that counts. Until you're ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won't keep it turning. Life isn't a love in, it's the dishes and the orthodontist and the shoe repairman and... ground round instead of roast beef. And I'll tell you something else: it isn't going to a bed with a man that proves you're in love with him; it's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful everyday world with him that counts.
[Leaving the house, they say good-bye to the little kids]
Frank Beardsley: I suppose having 19 kids is carrying it a bit too far, but if we had it to do over who would we skip... you?
HelenNorth: [getting into the car] Thank you, Frank. I never quite knew how to explain it to her.
Frank Beardsley: If we don't get you to the hospital fast, the rest of it's going to be explained right here!
And there you have it folks. That is what real love is.
Thanks to http://www.imdb.com for the quote you can find more from this movie in the quotes section here.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
I'm watching you
I use this site to rant about a great many things, but every once In a while I just like to share something that means something to me. Being a Father, a dad, means a lot to me, and is not a responsibility I take lightly. Thank you to the creators of this video for reminding me once again, that being a father is not a job, it is not even a career, it is a vocation. For those of us called to do it, it is a life time of service, but it is worth every second!
Monday, March 15, 2010
Great Hites Season 2 Prompt 14
This weeks prompt is from me and is:
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Look in your local newspaper and find a story where the head line interests you. Write a story about the head line, or the story or whatever you you like.
Some things about this prompt:
1. I know we have done this one before but it is always fun.
2. Newspaper can mean news feed, nightly news, whatever.
3. please tell us about the new story at the beginning of your recording and add it at the beginning of your text.
All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday March 23rd. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to GreatHites at gmail dot com.
Good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your favorite stories this week. Please tell all your friends to come out and join in the fun. Have you got some questions or comments about one of the stories, come out to Great Hites dot ning dot com and join our discussion forum.
Download this week's Prompt
Look in your local newspaper and find a story where the head line interests you. Write a story about the head line, or the story or whatever you you like.
Some things about this prompt:
1. I know we have done this one before but it is always fun.
2. Newspaper can mean news feed, nightly news, whatever.
3. please tell us about the new story at the beginning of your recording and add it at the beginning of your text.
All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday March 23rd. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to GreatHites at gmail dot com.
Good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your favorite stories this week. Please tell all your friends to come out and join in the fun. Have you got some questions or comments about one of the stories, come out to Great Hites dot ning dot com and join our discussion forum.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Some thing new
Well really a lot of new things. I have not been keeping up with this blog lately, but I am going to work on getting better at that, and honestly I have not had a lot to talk about in the last few months. Now I am ready to talk, and talk I will.
If you have been paying attention at all there have been a number of new things going on with Great Hites. We have have started a discussion forum so everyone can talk about what they think of the stories. There you can talk about how you like the stories but don't like the host or how GH is falling further and Further behind in getting the actual podcasts out. I am really working on that one and I will address it a little later in this post. the next new thing is that I have joined this century and joined face book. I don't share lots of gory details about my life on my page, so if you want to friend me, mostly what you will get are updates about what is going on with Great Hites. There is also a Great Hites Fan page that will only have things that pertain to Great Hites if you don't want the occasional thing that I put on Facebook that are about me and not the podcast.
There are a couple of other things that have been going on, you have may or may not have noticed depending on if you listen to the show of read it, we have had a number of guest hosts. I am going to try to keep that going. I would like to have a guest host say once every couple of months. This is less of a break for me, and more of a way to keep other people interested in the show and maybe bring in some new blood. This month's guest host is the lovely and talented Philippa Ballantine. I want to say thank you to both Arlene Radasky and Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll who have also guest hosted recently, helping me while I was traveling. Also more on that later.
Some really new things, as in thing that I have done today, have been going on. First, in the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of talk about the value of free. This is really in reference to giving your work away for free. All I am going to say about this topic right now is that there is a lot to talk about it out there and I don't need to rehash what people have said. Well Maybe I will but not in this post. One of the things that I thought about when this topic came up was should we (GreatHites) be paying some of the writers. I talked about this with the secret council, and the answer I got back was really, "no." No? I said and then I listened to their arguments and they were right. They echoed my fears about where would the money come from and how would we keep it up if the donation dried up, and last of course was that in the beginning at least, the most likely people to give would be the authors and then why not let them just keep their money. So in the end I scraped the idea of excepting donations. However, GreatHites has started giving one book away a month and we will have that expense, and as much as I would like to say that I can pay for that all out of my pocket, I can't always. So I found a compromise. If you look on the site (any of the sites really) you will see a little ad for a thing called swag bucks. If you follow the ad and sign up and then use thier search engine a few times you can earn points. The points you earn can be used to get things like gift cards and prizes FOR YOU. The benefit for GH is that since you clicked on the link from our site we also get the points that you earn and it allows us to buy prizes in the form of Amazon or iTunes gift cards or even Books. Really it works out for everyone and I don't have to be an accountant to keep track of who gave what. That works better for me.
The last thing that is new is the Great Hites voicemail line. I have set up a voice mail line using Google voice. The number is 585-205-UNIX (8649). So if you have thoughts or comments or questions just pick up the phone and give us a call. I can use the recording or the text (because Google is so cool and transcribes the audio for me) as feedback. So yeah another way to leave more feedback for GreatHites.
Alright, so there is a lot going on in this post, and I promised more things but I think I will save some of those for the next post, which will be coming soon. There will be some more new things going on. There are going to be some changes, and hopefully these will all be good things in the end. Thanks To everyone for sticking with me for the last few months while things have been so crazy.
-Jeff
If you have been paying attention at all there have been a number of new things going on with Great Hites. We have have started a discussion forum so everyone can talk about what they think of the stories. There you can talk about how you like the stories but don't like the host or how GH is falling further and Further behind in getting the actual podcasts out. I am really working on that one and I will address it a little later in this post. the next new thing is that I have joined this century and joined face book. I don't share lots of gory details about my life on my page, so if you want to friend me, mostly what you will get are updates about what is going on with Great Hites. There is also a Great Hites Fan page that will only have things that pertain to Great Hites if you don't want the occasional thing that I put on Facebook that are about me and not the podcast.
There are a couple of other things that have been going on, you have may or may not have noticed depending on if you listen to the show of read it, we have had a number of guest hosts. I am going to try to keep that going. I would like to have a guest host say once every couple of months. This is less of a break for me, and more of a way to keep other people interested in the show and maybe bring in some new blood. This month's guest host is the lovely and talented Philippa Ballantine. I want to say thank you to both Arlene Radasky and Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll who have also guest hosted recently, helping me while I was traveling. Also more on that later.
Some really new things, as in thing that I have done today, have been going on. First, in the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of talk about the value of free. This is really in reference to giving your work away for free. All I am going to say about this topic right now is that there is a lot to talk about it out there and I don't need to rehash what people have said. Well Maybe I will but not in this post. One of the things that I thought about when this topic came up was should we (GreatHites) be paying some of the writers. I talked about this with the secret council, and the answer I got back was really, "no." No? I said and then I listened to their arguments and they were right. They echoed my fears about where would the money come from and how would we keep it up if the donation dried up, and last of course was that in the beginning at least, the most likely people to give would be the authors and then why not let them just keep their money. So in the end I scraped the idea of excepting donations. However, GreatHites has started giving one book away a month and we will have that expense, and as much as I would like to say that I can pay for that all out of my pocket, I can't always. So I found a compromise. If you look on the site (any of the sites really) you will see a little ad for a thing called swag bucks. If you follow the ad and sign up and then use thier search engine a few times you can earn points. The points you earn can be used to get things like gift cards and prizes FOR YOU. The benefit for GH is that since you clicked on the link from our site we also get the points that you earn and it allows us to buy prizes in the form of Amazon or iTunes gift cards or even Books. Really it works out for everyone and I don't have to be an accountant to keep track of who gave what. That works better for me.
The last thing that is new is the Great Hites voicemail line. I have set up a voice mail line using Google voice. The number is 585-205-UNIX (8649). So if you have thoughts or comments or questions just pick up the phone and give us a call. I can use the recording or the text (because Google is so cool and transcribes the audio for me) as feedback. So yeah another way to leave more feedback for GreatHites.
Alright, so there is a lot going on in this post, and I promised more things but I think I will save some of those for the next post, which will be coming soon. There will be some more new things going on. There are going to be some changes, and hopefully these will all be good things in the end. Thanks To everyone for sticking with me for the last few months while things have been so crazy.
-Jeff
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