Year: 2020

Awards Eligibility Lineup 2020

It’s that time of year again, the time when awards nominations are made, and every speculative fiction author posts their publications in the past year. I have no illusions about getting nominated for anything, even if only because most of what’s appeared in 2020 was flash. Nevertheless, here’s my 2020 lineup. Most of these stories […]

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TomTom Sees Me, And Raises

The whole sordid story: Goodbye, TomTom, and Good Riddance | TomTom Sees Me, And Raises This may actually become a customer service blog post series to rival the epic scope of my classic UPC iParcel tale. (To fully appreciate this current post, read the previous one about TomTom first.) As a follow-up to the tragedy […]

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TomTom map, zoomed out to Moon level

Goodbye, TomTom, and Good Riddance

The whole sordid story: Goodbye, TomTom, and Good Riddance | TomTom Sees Me, And Raises This may actually become a customer service blog post series to rival the epic scope of my classic UPC iParcel tale. (To fully appreciate this current post, read the previous one about TomTom first.) After twenty-two years of continuous, loyal, […]

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Mad Max Beyond the Corona Testing Station

Last week, I went for my corona test. In The Netherlands, one is required to take the test if one has any cold or flu symptoms. And while my clogged nose is seasonal only in the sense that four seasons take us around the year, my slight sore throat at the time seemed to be […]

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Nu beschikbaar: een boekje met de oplossing voor Rubiks Kubus!

Mijn pagina’s over het oplossen van Rubiks Kubus behoren tot de populairste op de site. Op veler verzoek heb ik een downloadbare PDF-versie gemaakt van die pagina’s. Als je liever van papier werkt, verwerf dan de PDF en print hem!  

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Now available: a Rubik’s Cube solution booklet!

My pages about solving Rubik’s Cube are among the most popular on the site. By popular demand, I’ve created a downloadable PDF version of these pages. If you prefer to work from a paper version, get yourself the PDF and print it!  

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Six Million Dutch Don’t Believe In Childbirth

It’s a miracle I’m not pounding my head against a wall, moaning in despair. Bas Roelman, a journalist for Trouw newspaper, published today about a report by marketing research firm Motivaction, claiming that a majority of the Dutch believe in miracles. Upon reading that, I sat up in shock: are the straits of Dutch superstition […]

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Lightailing Review (**): Beautiful, But Disappointing

UPDATE: Lightailing has updated their product page to include both a clickable link to the product reviews, and my own review. This prompted me to update this post to include only my product review. Suppliers should <em>never</em> lie. Ever. And fake or suppressed reviews? Those are lies. I’m basically a kid with extra decades on the […]

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Editor Roselinde Bouman, myself, and Maarten Boers at the contract signing

A Dream Come True: My Publisher Bought My Thriller

De Nederlandstalige versie van dit bericht is te vinden op mijn Nederlandstalige site. Even the title of this post is a dream-come-true: being able to utter the words “my publisher”. But this is more than that. I’ve dreamed of being a published author since I first understood that such a thing exists, so at least […]

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The Rise of Skywalker, The Fall of Abrams

Meh. (Minor spoilerettes ahead.) Much like The Force Awakens, as a movie, and even as a Star Wars movie, it’s hard to find fault with how Skywalker rises. Granted, J.J. Abrams seems terrified of showing any emotion, judging by the way he cuts off any meaningful exchange before it finds too much depth. And–again like […]

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