thefootnote.net

Hey, readers! Welcome to a special PIPE DREAMS, which doubles as the last Footnote article. Yes, we’re closing our doors after six years. It’s been a blast, and we love you. And now … the end.

So, in the immortal words of Huey Lewis, “this is it,” eh, Adam?

It would seem that way, certainly. Except with less of that sweet alto sax sound.

Ah… sweet, sweet sax. But, yep, it’s been, what? Almost six years since me and Sir Dustin Grovemiller started this site and somehow ten since you joined me in co-editing it?

Hahahah well we did kind of speed things up a bit, didn’t we? But yeah, man, we had us a good long run, with a ton of great stuff in it.

Read the rest of this entry →

Twelve years ago, when I was a mere lad of nineteen, I had a pretty solid plan for where I’d be when I got all up in the grill of my thirties. It involved being successful in both sides of this goofy set of shenanigans called life: personal and professional. Not necessarily in that order. At nineteen, it seemed obvious to me that I’d have it all figured out by thirty, and that that third decade would be the time when I just kept building upon those personal and professional successes (until, of course, I died heroically saving Earth from the inevitable robotic uprising whilst in my fifties with nothing but my two fists and a whole hell of a lot of moxie). Read the rest of this entry →

We’ve Got Questions is where we ask questions. And here it is Monday again.  Seems to keep happen.  But that’s all right because we’re here and we have a question for you to help ease you into the week!

Today’s question:

What technology that we don’t have do you want the most?

So to give you an idea of where I am these days - I’m writing this while waiting for a call from a publisher and then planning on another call tonight with a guy that I am editing for. While I’m doing that I am chatting on instant messenger with someone else about a different editing gig.

It’s getting a bit crushing, some days. On the other hand, to be fair, I am loving it and I go after it and hunt this much work down myself. It isn’t like I can complain. So I won’t.

Read the rest of this entry →

Highdell was exhausted but could not sleep. Especially when he flew commercial. But commercial was necessary when he was working, which was most of the time. It was all part of the biz…

He was just another sales rep making the rounds, an IT genius fixing another bug, a low level college recruiter doing the leg work for the athletic department…

It was always something and it was always different. He was never the same person in Detroit, in Tampa, in Seattle… He was never ever the same… Just a pretty face and a boring job… Read the rest of this entry →

We’ve Got Questions is where we ask questions.Why, I ask you, do we have questions?  Why couldn’t we have waffles?  I like waffles!  I could totally go for a waffle right now.  But no, instead we’re dealing with questions.  Fine!

Today’s question:

When do you normally do your taxes?

I was hoping I wouldn’t be so lame as to write about not writing. But here you have it, I’ve been away from The Footnote for several months, and what do I finally come back with? Me writing about not writing for The Footnote.

But I have been writing — for myself, for my day job. And now I have a new project. Read the rest of this entry →

Only about 13% of my shivering is due to the cold and 87% of it is from overwhelming fear. I don’t know how many women are robots, but I have evidence that there are enough to start an army. And if you need to be told what a robot army can do to humanity then you need to watch Terminator, T2 and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines right away.

Women seem all charming and sexy and fun to hang around with, don’t they? So why haven’t you noticed their robot-like tendencies before? They’re programmed to be deceptive, that’s why. Read the rest of this entry →