Author: hmelton

I would have said “Roller Coaster” but that title has already been taken. Finding our way back to home base, we’ve been taking little side-routes — trying to stay scenic rather than fast. On the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma, there’s the Talimena Scenic Byway. We’ve taken it before, so we thought it would be… Continue reading Talimena Thrill Ride

A new feature appeared in iTunes7 that I’ve been wanting for a long time. Just as it tracks your play count, it now also counts the number if times you’ve started a song, and then skipped on to the next one. Of course, it’s just started building that information, so it won’t be really useful… Continue reading iTunes 7 Skip Count

Today, I’m watching the cold rain on the Mississippi, and trying to write the blurbs for my latest novel. It brings to mind the 1999 movie “Forces of Nature” where Ben Affleck played a professional blurb writer. He had some fancy name for it, and Sandra Bullock’s character called him a blurbologist. I could sure… Continue reading Where’s Ben Affleck?