Red Herrings

I randomly decided to look in on this blog after many, many years. Honestly, the 2016 election among other things kind of killed it for me. I was listening to an episode of the Jordan Harbinger S...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/so-its-been-a-while/

All credit to @mklueg.

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/the-mucinexmp/

Invisible Streets by Toby Ball I have been a fan of Toby Ball’s City since I picked up the first novel The Vaults on a whim at the library just because I liked the look of the cover. I followed...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/on-the-bookshelf-invisible-streets-by-toby-ball/

  Time for another Ingress post, maybe a book post later too.   This post is on the topic of portal defense / portal control in Ingress. I am talking specifically about purely tactical, within ...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/diversion-and-distraction-of-the-ingress-kind-tactical-portal-defense-portal-control/

Those who know me, who have played games with me anyway, can tell you I don’t like to be restricted by a small board. For example, I dislike chess because I find the board too small and crowded...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/diversion-and-distraction-of-the-gaming-kind-ingress/

When you come in to work and find boxes full if classic Sci-fi and Fantasy paperbacks sitting out, (Chalker, Hambly, LeGuin, Asimov, Harrison, Heinlein, Card, among others) don’t be surprised w...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/classic-sci-fi-fantasy-distraction/

Daniel Suarez is one of those authors that in a few more years (or after one of his novels reaches the big screen) is going to be talked about as one of the top authors of contemporary science fi...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/on-the-bookshelf-influx-by-daniel-suarez/

I haven’t, lately, been much into writing but since I have a few minutes I thought I would ramble a bit about some reading I’ve been doing lately. On a whim I picked up a paperback that has b...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/on-the-bookshelf-bolos/

I was watching the first episode of the new season of The Killing on AMC. We meet Detective Holder’s girlfriend played by Jewel Staite (who played Kaylee on Firefly) who reveals Holder’s “S...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/diversion-and-distraction-of-the-amusing-kind-the-killing-and-firefly/

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Jericho Award, that honor is bestowed, by me, upon the best new show of the season (starting in the summer and ending with the close of the spring ...

https://arherring.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/the-2012-2013-jericho-award/