Posts by Jim

In Oklahoma last night we were unable to kill someone – effectively.  Apparently a man named Clayton Lockett was slated to die from a lethal injection.  This man was convicted of the murder of Stephanie Nieman, 19. Lockett, with two other men, was involved in a botched raid on a house belonging to Bobby Bornt, when Miss Neiman and another 19-year-old woman walked in.  Reports from the time said that Mr Bornt owed Lockett money...

So, I need to kill someone.  How about you?  Is this a good day for you to die?  Would you like to die a lingering horribly painful death or a gruesome, revolting gut churning one? The deal is that I have a lot of people that I am killing in this next book.  Let me rephrase this, just in case the NSA actually is watching everything we do, the villains in this book and the next one too, kills a lot of people.  Right now I am just...

For those of you who do not know, I am a computer guy.  I write software for a living.  You may not realize this, but most advanced programming languages have modules built into them which allow the computer to generate random numbers.  You may well ask, what is the value of having a computer randomly generate a number?  After all, you would not want it to generate a random balance for your checkbook or a random number of miles shown...

I have been told that I am not a man of great patience.  Now my friend told me this with of every intention of being helpful in some way.  Seems odd that we think the best way to help a person is to insult them. So tonight I am doing a little experiment in patience. You see I know this guy who knows a guy who needs a favor.  The guy who needs this favor is the suit and tie type guy who works U.S. Customs.  Interestingly enough in one...

If you have read any of my character Morgan Snow’s posts on his Facebook page, then you know a pet peeve of his is people abusing handicap parking.  I share that pet peeve with him, but I have another.  It drives me nuts when you go to any parking lot for a store that uses shopping carts, to find those carts spewed across the parking lot because people are too lazy to take them to the racks.  I also hate when people take the...