During the last year I wrote four short read collections called the Three Twisted Tales . Today they are available in aggregate as The Clock Strikes Twelve. A 265 page paperback on Amazon. If you enjoyed The Rorschach Test you should enjoy this collection. The stories are slightly longer in length. Big thanks to Daniel Anderson who once again created a beautiful cover.
Andrew LaRell Fry
How do internet systems, the world wide web, online social networks, databases and client server technologies serve relationships and the arts? What are the consequences of putting so much data about ourselves onto the web, and how can we manage the impression and information that is given out?
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Hopefully you have seen the press release from the EDB about
Infoblox renewing its lease in Tacoma for another six years. Growing from sixty
employees to over two hundred and twenty and counting is an amazing story. I
would like to take a moment to tell another one.
The company has many compelling reasons to extend their stay
and grow the company here. As Co-chair of the EDB committee on the five year strategic
plan for the recruitment and retention of the technology industry in the South
Puget Sound, I have been part of an initiative to identify and promote reasons
for dong so. One of top reasons for any company is the availability of a
qualified workforce and in particular those that are coming out of our
engineering programs.
When I came on board at the UWT over twenty years ago, I was
a member of industry (CEO of Free Range Media), teaching as an adjunct for a
group of students going through a computer science program. At the time, the
program was called Computing Software and Systems. I was also on Governor Locke’s
Council on the Internet, and it was not that long after that I came on board as
a staff member at the Institute of Technology. It was legislated into existence
and situated on the University of Washington Tacoma campus. Governor Locke
actually did the announcement during my class with the full contingent of UW
and State representatives on hand.
Thinking about where we began, with a cohort of around sixty
Computer Science students, and where we are now, I am amazed and impressed. We
are now the School of Engineering and Technology at the UWT. (There were many
good reasons for the name change and I am happy to talk about it if you would
like.)
We continue to grow and add programs, serving more students
each year and hiring world class faculty.
So do this with me.
Have you ever gone through a tunnel as a kid (or with your
kids) and had a contest to see if you could hold your breath all the way
through until the exit of the tunnel?
Okay, take a deep breath. At the School of Engineering and
Technology we now provide a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Systems,
a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and Systems, a Bachelor of Science
in Information Technology, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in
Civil Engineering! Whew! Still in the tunnel, keep holding. A Master of Science
in Computer Science, a Master of Science
in Computer Engineering, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a
Masters in Cybersecurity and Leadership. You can do it! I see the light at the
end of the tunnel up ahead! We offer Graduate Certificates in Software
Engineering, a Big Data Science Certificate and a minor in Applied Computing.
Oh yes, we also now have a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
You can breathe now.
Well over a thousand students are in our programs or are
prepping to enter them.
As you can imagine, I speak with members of the technology
industry and economic developers multiple times a week. I would be happy to speak with you as well,
or exchange a few emails if you would like to know more about our students, our
faculty, our research or the companies that have spawned from the campus.
https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/set/programs
Friday, April 24, 2020
Being Productive as an Artist
Friday, January 31, 2020
The Rorschach Test and Other Stories
The event ended with my crushing the low bar of 30,000 words that I set (the official site wouldn't let me adjust anyway) and I finished with 53,000 words written.
This equated to 18 first drafts of short suspense, horror and/or supernatural stories. Since then I have dropped one but written two more for a total of 19 titles.
My next effort is concentrating on piecing them together into a full collection under the title:
The Rorschach Test - and other tales of suspense, horror and the supernatural
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Looking forward to giving my first go at NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. Taking inspiration from my daughter Savannah who has successfully complete the event four times already, I am geared up and ready to go.
My launching point is the 30 short story ideas I generated in August of this year, with outlines for ten different stories.
The standard goal is 50,000 words, but I am setting mine at 30,000.
I have only found an hour to write per day so far, but have managed to do so for five days to date with a near 5,000 words completed. I will have to step up the word count to make my goal but I think I can do it. I should have at least six first draft horror/supernatural short stories by Novembers end.
Then I can use the holidays to polish them up.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Savannah's Nine Years of Blogging
So it is with great fatherly pride that I share Savannah Fry's ninth anniversary post. She has struggled, (slightly) to maintain posting but relates nicely in her post the reasons for this struggle as well as how she is refocusing.
Here is her Playing in the Pages post.
Thursday, January 4, 2018
The South Sound Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
This year is different. Stay tuned.
I am going to be posting at least once per month on the topic of the South Puget Sound Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.
From early education to accelerators, incubators and investment, I am going to assess where we are today and what we need to do to continue the momentum being established.
This post will be replaced by one with more detail, but first I need to teach my class.
Andrew
Second Book of Short Stories Out on Amazon
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