Catchup
All sorts of things I haven't mentioned: Friday I got an interesting unintentional birthday present: my apartment-complex manager sent me...
Author Archive
More gender stats
As I continue to tweak our submissions database, more data becomes available/clear. For example, the most-prolific-submitters list is now working...
Writing
Got together with Kate to write again tonight. Went well; half an hour or so of chatting, an hour to...
Offline
My cable modem is acting up. It works fine for anywhere from five minutes to several hours, and then it...
Cryptic comment
Here's what I have to say to certain writers who submitted stories in close succession this morning: You people are...
Author gender
Interesting statistics: I've started tracking author gender (to the extent that it's possible to guess based on names and other...
Telemarketing reversal
Telemarketers generally have a script they're supposed to follow as they ask you a series of questions. Now EGBG (which...
Cake
Some observations on cake by various historical scientists. Many of them are kinda obvious, but I particularly like the ones...
Impending voting deadlines!
Hugo nominations must be sent in by Monday 3/31. If you're eligible to nominate (that is, if you were a...
Returns
You know how they say "Many Happy Returns"? Well, there were two happy returns yesterday. I'd known for some time...
Cyberwar
Okay, so maybe the things I was talking about the other day are really obvious and I just hadn't been...
Intelligence
An MTV article, of all things, supplies a possible answer to my question about why the US didn't knock out...