Spam of the day
Huh. This one had the usual sorts of random-text headers: X-Mailer: anniversary brainy bark Subject: pigeonberry arkansas Organization: power drill...
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My favorite mayor
San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom was on KQED radio's Forum talk show the other day. (You can listen to the...
More HP Britishisms
A couple more British words that survived the Americanization of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: judder (which...
Time flies
Yesterday morning, helped Twig and assorted friends load up a moving truck to move her down to Monterey. Sadness! Okay,...
What not to put in a cover letter
We've been getting a lot of submissions lately that have detailed summaries and/or discussions of the story in the cover...
The case of the inverted plot
Recently finished reading Tales from Earthsea. Sometimes Le Guin stories are so rich I can't read many of them at once;...
On food and cooking
I've been cooking a lot more than usual lately. Which isn't saying much; "usual" is heating chili from a can,...
And the (birth)days keep going by
Sorry so long between entries these days. Busy. I'd hoped to catch up on some stuff over the weekend, but...
Way behind on everything
Quick update: First, I'm way behind on everything at the moment, but particularly on answering emails. I'll try to reply...
Interstellar polycultural setting
Warning: This entry is even longer than usual. This week's SH story, Tom Doyle's "Crossing Borders" (which is not for...
More on Year’s Bests
Over at the Rumor Mill, Jim Van Pelt posted an analysis of sources for the 2004 large-format Year's Bests, showing...
Computer book lifetimes
Back when I worked at SGI, I co-wrote a book call The VRML 2.0 Handbook with Josie Wernecke. I'm guessing...