Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>Literature</span>

More than a footnote.

My wife alerted me last night to a terrible loss to the literary world — writer David Foster Wallace was found dead Friday night of an apparent suicide. DFW was already at 46 a giant of American literature and, even though he tended to the self-absorbed, his writing was passionate …

Jeffty is five.

Cinematical reviews a portrait of one of the only writers to come out of the science fiction genre who will matter in a hundred years — Harlan Ellison, in a biopic called Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Go HE! I met Harlan once at a book-signing and, determined not to raise …

Random assortment.

Sorry I don’t have time to look up links. Google is your friend; use it. ? Fedora. Got a release notes package put together, only to find out that I broke something stupid that I had originally done right and then subsequently “fixed,” in the way that you might fix …