Were we kings?
Just watched Ali, a partly fictionalized biopic of Muhammad Ali starring Will Smith. Much of it is a fascinating collage...
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Mars Express
Forgot to mention this, indirectly via a link supplied by metasilk (): Mars Express, the European Space Agency's mission to...
Housing and goats
This afternoon I dropped by an open house at a condo. It was the gentlest possible getting-my-toes-wet; the place is...
Upcoming chat
In an upcoming online chat at scifi.com, L. Timmel Duchamp, Lynn Flewelling, Barbara Hambly, and John Kessel will "discuss the role...
The difficulty of text processing
There's a billboard I pass on the way to work these days. It's from a series of Tide ads (semi-ineffective,...
Productive
Last night and today: Read a week's worth of submissions. Learned a lot about real estate. Kam pointed me to...
PotUS blog
I'm sorry, I've lost track of who pointed me to this: George W. Bush's blog. It's not exactly what you'd...
Wooden Rocket Awards announced
Mary Anne just pointed to this: the Wooden Rocket Awards winners have been announced. In the online-magazine category, The Alien...
Medical marijuana
One more bit of good news (courtesy of Stephanie Dray): Ed Rosenthal, medical-marijuana grower (officially sanctioned by the city of...
Editorializing
It occurred to me last night that not everyone who reads this journal reads SH, and thus that I ought...
In better news
Just occurred to me that Clarion (East) is right around the corner! Chronologically speaking, of course, not geographically, at least...
Frustrations
I suspect I've long since passed the point of being tiresome about Loud Car Guy, but yup, this is another...