Seuss
Today wasn't so good overall. More stress regarding my project at work, but that was completely overshadowed by learning that one of my co-workers has developed an extremely serious medical condition. (I'm still working on the line between what's okay to say about work here and what isn't, so I'm trying to err on the side of too little information rather than too much.)
But I wanted to put up a quick trick brick post before the day officially ends, to note that today would've been Theodor Seuss Geisel's 100th birthday, and Greg Beatty has written an excellent article about Dr. Seuss to celebrate. Thanks, Greg! What with one thing and another, I didn't manage to do anything else for about the birthday, but I'm very pleased that you wrote this article.
Meanwhile, Mike Whybark did the research I should've done if only I'd thought of it (thanks very much, Mike!), and dug up a Usenet posting from me from 1991 (thanks to the power of Google Groups), in which I mentioned the original Paul di Filippo article that I was trying to find when I posted about Seuss a couple weeks ago:
In Nebula Awards 24, edited by Michael Bishop (the Nebula Awards collection for 1988), there was an article by Paul Di Filippo entitled "My Alphabet Starts Where Your Alphabet Ends." Di Filippo's thesis was that Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, deserved a Grandmaster Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. The article was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but I thought it was a great suggestion anyway.
Too tired to add anything new. But happy birthday, Dr. Seuss! Wish you were still around to enjoy it.
