Review: Two Weeks Notice
Mary Anne and I went to see Two Weeks Notice as a way to reduce pressure the night before her...
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Signs of work
At right, a sign posted outside a blocky building near the hotel where M and I stayed in SLC last...
Another license plate
This morning on the way to work, I saw a license plate that said HETSRSN. I spent a minute or...
Elements
On the one hand, it's not clear to me whether Mike Stanfill has permission to provide Tom Lehrer's song "The...
May Day redux
There were a couple of things I neglected to mention on May 1. First, I didn't mention a couple of...
Hugo administrators speak!
Being in charge of the Hugos is always a thankless task, but this year I suspect it's more thankless than...
Pax Americana
Interesting piece in Slate by Mark Lewis about America's flirtation with empire in the Philippines in the first half of...
Daily Planet
For those who haven't seen this elsewhere (thanks to David M. for bringing it to my attention): The only publicly-traded...
Wacky apartment life
Correction to earlier entry: loud-car-guy's new parking space is actually more like 20 feet from my bedroom window, not 10;...
First of May
Happy Beltane, everyone! Also, happy International Workers' Day! Slept a little better last night. Thanks for all the suggestions. May...
Tom vs. the Captain
The one bit of particularly good news today was the arrival in the mail of a package from amazon.co.uk. One...
SFM ISO FE
(Which is to say, Speculative Fiction Magazine In Search Of Fiction Editor.) Sadly, enigmatic non-A.I. fiction editor Chris Heinemann (at...