Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Take a Break
If you’re an engineer working on a problem and you’re stumped by your technical problem, chugging caffeine at your desk and chaining yourself to your computer, you’re going to be really frustrated. You’re going to waste lots of time. You may look productive, but...
Parenting Advice and Child Safety
Something I've learned over the last six months is that people will say some pretty strange things to new parents -- even people who have no children of their own -- and they really don't mind getting up in your business to say them. Typically, these nuggets of...
How Protect IP and SOPA Will Break the Internet
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through...
Fiction
Into the Hands of the Smoke Priest
One of the merchants produces the sigil, wrapped in cloth, from an inner pocket of his robe, and sets it in the Priest's waiting hand. The box follows immediately. Wisps of smoky vapor puff upward from the Priest's fingertips as they do so, but the merchants pretend...
Smoke Priest
The smoke merchants pace along the streets of the Market. The cowls of their grey cloaks are pulled up over their heads, obscuring their features. Everyone who comes to the Market maintains a level of anonymity, but the smoke merchants even more so. The product in...
Frost
He resists the voices, even as they wrap around him. He fights but is soon overwhelmed. There are simply too many of them. He feels them clawing at his mind, dragging at his psyche, pulling him down into unknown depths -- and suddenly he is very afraid. His head tilts...