More video of me on the Ten Zen Monkey’s video site, http://10zm.blip.tv/.

Talking to R.U.Sirius about parallel universes and the infinite universe.

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One thing about the blip.tv player is that at first it was popping up an ugh blinking ad! But now 10ZM has kindly turned off the ad feature for me.

To muse upon my remarks at leisure, see the Ten Zen Monkeys print site www.10zenmonkeys.com . Or, even better, see the version, carefully re-edited at my leisure, in my cumulative interviews document. As a writer, I firmly believe I should be allowed repeated edits of my life—a theme that comes up in Mathematicians in Love.

Good news, I finished the first draft of the first chapter of Hylozoic today! Only seven more chaps to go (according to current outline plan).

Last week, when I was complaining about being left out of some random anthology, I was feeling sorry for myself and even thinking thoughts like, “Why bother? Why not just quit? I’m tired of p*ssing into the wind. They don’t deserve my books!”

But then I realized that I can’t just sulk and stop writing. If I do that, I’m only punishing myself. If I quit, then “they” win, don’t they? I can’t give in to envy and resentment. Forget about the biz and enjoy the fun. I wrote something today, for instance, that made me laugh out loud for a minute.

It’s all good. And it’s spring. And tomorrow’s my birthday!

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