Robert Bryan

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I've overhauled www.rmbryan.com. I have an email list you can join, some social media links, including goodreads, and a fledgling podcast where i read from the books.Next up, finalizing the DRM-free ebooks.
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8/23 '15
 

After the collapse and reduction, there were not enough people left to rebuild the way things were before.

What we could rebuild was… different.


It wasn’t all bad:

Without a power grid to light up the night sky, the stars were easier to see.

The obesity epidemic wasn’t a problem anymore.

There were no more traffic jams, and pollution wasn’t really a concern.


Life was ghastly and bleak in every way.

Scattered families scratching out lives, hiding from thugs and roving bands of Skullers.


One night, Autumn, a resilient girl in an impossible situation, made a simple choice that drastically altered the course of many lives.

She decided to run. 

The Arden House Series, available now.

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8/16 '15 3 Comments
Revised:
After the collapse and reduction, there were not enough people left to rebuild the way things were before.
What we could rebuild was... different.
There were some small improvements:
Without a power grid to light up the night sky, the stars were easier to see.
The obesity epidemic wasn't a problem anymore.
There were no more traffic jams, and pollution wasn't really a concern.
Other than that, life was ghastly and bleak in almost every way.
Scattered families scratched out lives, hid from thugs and roving bands of Skullers.
One night, Autumn, a resilient girl in an impossible situation, made a simple choice that drastically altered the course of many lives.
She decided to run.
 
reason # n+1 why I heart OPW... just watched my first episode of BoJack Horseman because I heard about it here.
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8/15 '15 5 Comments
Oh, if you liked episode one, you're going to love the rest. It improves rapidly.
Just watched Ep 1. Okay. I'm on board.
Oh yeh, it is perfect for anybody who has a critique of Hollywood already.
It reminds me a lot of Theresa Rebeck's book Free Fire Zone, which is her book about her time in LA writing for TV.
Okay, I loved Archer, but couldn't get halfway through Ep 1 of this. What am I doing wrong?
 
 
Today, I wrote SQL queries all day.I had help when I needed it, good tools to work with and well organized reference material.It was a joy. 
I learned a great deal and got some things to work.
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7/31 '15 3 Comments
SQL is actually pretty neat on its own terms. It's not a "think like the computer" thing. It's more of a "think about your information, which you care about" thing. Unless you don't care about the information, in which case it's dull of course.
It fascinates me.
I have this massive, priceless data set that's just sitting there, waiting for me to mine the living daylights out of it.
Just scratching the surface so far and I am amazed.
I also have Splunk, which is extremely helpful as well, and another fun thing to learn.
 
Tonight we made index cards of the multiplication facts up to 9x9=81.We skipped the easy ones like 0, 1, 2 and all the 5s.
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7/29 '15 4 Comments
The zero cards exist, they just are what they mean.
Does she like the cool thing about the multiples of nine, how all the numbers reverse?
No!
She knows fuck-all.
It's an outrage.
I'm on it, though.


should go well.
My Dad taught me all of the Presidents' names in order of term. He let me stay up late while I was memorizing them and being quizzed. I got to stay up past my bedtime a few times and I learned all the Presidents and absorbed a bunch of goofy trivia like the three reporters in Taft's bathtub. Silly Dad, he must not have noticed it was after my bedtime. I sure fooled him!

Also, you're a great Dad.
 
 

Out with:

  • facebook
  • reddit
  • imgur
  • twitter
  • instgram
  • netflix
  • amazon instant video
  • fark

Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, except to clear space for...

In with:

oh, and more of https://goo.gl/photos/2nUud7Rg8HePe4gq7
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7/26 '15 6 Comments
Right now it's SQL. I'm looking forward to doing all the maths next.
Cool. I call it "Squeal" here at work.
SQUEAL has been an internally reserved keyword for my BIOS since 1994.
I like the idea of Khan. I'll have to give it a closer look.
Honored to make the cut!
What are you studying on Khan?
Khaaaaaaaaan!
 
Open houses at my place next Saturday and Sunday, 20-21 December to sell Arden House Book Two. I can accept credit / debit cards.Let me know if you need address.All are welcome.
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12/14 '14