Submission report update
Now that January is over, here's the official count: The SH fiction department received 270 submissions in January of 2003;... (More...)
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Now that January is over, here's the official count: The SH fiction department received 270 submissions in January of 2003;... (More...)
Yesterday, I called Orchard Supply Hardware to ask if they had live traps for mice. The person who answered the... (More...)
These don't quite have a unified theme, but they seem distantly connected: Ted pointed to a great MetaFilter thread on... (More...)
These are a little more connected, I guess, or maybe it's just that the theme is broader: Locus is doing... (More...)
I've had remarkably good customer service (most of the time) for the past several weeks, so it's no surprise that... (More...)
This year is shaping up to be a busy one. Here's a rough version of the parts of my travel-and-visitors... (More...)
After this morning's two phone calls from DHL and the update on their tracking page (see my comment on the... (More...)
A couple hours ago, I heard rustling from downstairs. No, not people poaching my cows; just a noise as of,... (More...)
I saw an internal demo of this a couple weeks ago, and I've been biting my tongue to avoid talking... (More...)
No, wait, it's not these things below that have no brain, it's me. I'm near to sleep; have not slept... (More...)
I never sleep particularly well, but the ways in which I don't sleep well vary over time. The latest version,... (More...)
The people at Star Trek: New Voyages liked Original Series Trek so much that they decided to continue the original... (More...)
Seems like lately when I get sick, the main symptoms are exhaustion and inability to think clearly. Yesterday it really... (More...)
One of the things that struck me about today's memorial gathering for Joan Van Stone was that a couple of... (More...)
I initially wrote "Stumblign", and considered leaving it like that, as an accurate reflection of my state of consciousness. Still,... (More...)
I was wondering when this would hit the news. A set of links, presented without comment (and with the employee... (More...)
Some assorted news items from the speculative fiction world: The 2004 Nebula Awards Final Ballot has been released. The most... (More...)
I always have sleep problems of one sort or another, but last night's sort is one of my very least... (More...)
Kam and I have been watching the new Battlestar Galactica series, and so far (having seen the first five episodes)... (More...)
I spent quite a while earlier tonight trying all the possible options to get some sleep, but then I thought,... (More...)
Shortly after posting that last entry, I backslid and got a little sleep. Not much, though, and I'll keep trying... (More...)
Kam drove me to the doctor yesterday; the doctor prescribed me some Ambien. (I tried Sonata once, years ago, and... (More...)
I got sick a little over a week ago, and although there've been days of non-sickness mixed in during that... (More...)
Occurs to me that I should plug a couple of upcoming tiny local sf-related conventions: Potlatch 14 is in San... (More...)
I was going to title this "patronizing," but that would give entirely the wrong idea. Yesterday I got to feel... (More...)
The other day in the car, we were wondering where the term w00t came from. If only I had a... (More...)
Which is to say, no particular news, no particular brain. Had a nice story reading on Saturday; various good things... (More...)
On the plus side, got various bits of praise at work today; among other things, my first performance review went... (More...)
Still coughing, but the health updates are getting tedious so I'll leave it at that. What I'm really here to... (More...)
You've only got a few days left to vote in the Strange Horizons Readers' Choice award for work we published... (More...)
O frabjous day! Google Maps now works with Safari. I'm very pleased. (It also works with Opera now, but that's... (More...)
I really ought to be either editing or reading subs, but I'm gonna take a little time to point to... (More...)
Kip has posted a long excellent response to my previous entry; I've only had time to skim it so far,... (More...)
I ought to be reading submissions, editing, rejecting submissions, responding to queries, or otherwise dealing with all the stuff I'm... (More...)