Wm. Mark Simmons's Page

The new website is up and running! The old URL (as of this afternoon) redirects surfers to the new site. It's been a number of months since I started the process but work, health, computer replacements, and numerous extracurricular projects and requests intruded.

Although the new site is unfinished—more of a work-in-progress—the consolidation makes things more manageable. The Radio Kansas Fall Fund Drive ended last night so normalcy should start creeping back in within the next few days…

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First, the Bad News:

My laptop is still down, off somewhere on the West Coast, getting fixed (presumably) by the Tech Squad that services my extended warranty on this increasingly unreliable conglomeration of circuitry. And the warranty expires come December. At that point it won’t be cost-effective to subsidize some uber-geek’s sailboat or second vacation home so I’m about to slap a DNR on another machine with an average life-span of 3 to 4 years. (3 to 4 years minus the better part of an accu… Continue

Finally got to see ALL of the Battlestar Galactica finale. My DVR cut off before the final 9 minutes of the overlong Daybreak Part Two unwound. Thank the Lords of Cobol for Hulu.com.

So, now I’m left with a disturbing theory (beyond the idea that there’s a race of Centurions, somewhere out there, that have had another 150,000 years to evolve…).

It goes something like this:

The reimagined Battlestar Galactica with James Edward Olmos as Adama unwinds 150,000 years in the past. At the series end… Continue

First of all, my apologies to all for going silent for so long. I was fighting a battle on two fronts.

First of all, my laptop went down some months ago and I had to go through the process of getting an older laptop repaired and refurbished while I hunted down the extended warranty pertaining to the current one.

It took some time to restore some of the data from my hard drive—being a poor author I had to do all of the dirty work, myself. Once restored, the old laptop gimped along requiring a c… Continue