It isn’t the cough
My father used to say: It isn't the cough that carries you off; it's the coffin they carry you off...
Author Archive
Walk like a Mondegreen
Sometime around my sophomore year at Swarthmore, a guest speaker came to give a linguistics talk. This guy had done...
Vanity publishing, self-publishing, etc
Just finally read a piece from Making Light, posted back in July, about PublishAmerica and related business models. The piece...
Last day
Remember that today's the last day to submit fiction to Strange Horizons before we close to subs for December. Of...
Neighborly
I've had more interaction with my new next-door neighbor in the past couple weeks—hell, in the past ten minutes—than with...
First time
There's a charming piece in Holly Lisle's Vision called "My First Time," about an author going through the process of...
All out
As of about an hour ago, there's nothing left in my apartment that belongs to me, except for a little...
Talking to your computer
Hee hee. I hadn't paid much attention to "Speakable Items" in OS X before, but Will asked about it and BDan...
Moved and connected!
Last night my cable modem stopped working; presumably because it was after midnight east-coast time so they'd done something to...
Women in space, women detecting
I have no idea who pointed me to this: a New York Times book review of Almost Heaven: The Story...
Silly gyros
There's a nice little Greek restaurant in downtown Palo Alto, Gyros Gyros. When you order various items to go, they...
Fund drive nearing conclusion
I was gonna go off and pack, but then I remembered that I haven't yet mentioned the current SH fund...