Post-WorldCon submission deluge
Huh. 27 stories submitted in the past 48 hours; that's about double our normal submission volume. If you're thinking of...
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Total number of Hugo ballots
To quote the flyer from the con, "ConJosé received 924 valid ballots for the awards." Yes, that's right, only 924...
Numbers game
Meant to mention that although WorldCon (at around 5000 attendees) is the biggest gathering of the broad books-and-stuff side of...
IRV in action
If you're interested in the details of the Hugo voting, see the voting breakdown page. Instant Runoff Voting came into...
Con over; exhaustion sets in
I'd love to write up a detailed con report for ConJosé, but I have no time. I've spent the last...
What’s this WorldCon thing like, anyway?
A couple weeks ago, two people in one day hinted that I should try to convince them to come to...
ColdFusion MX on OS X!
Warning: rampant geekery ahead. I'm not going to provide sufficient background for those who don't understand the title of this...
More birthdays
It's another week of birthdays: Laura, Tamara, Jenn, Ed. . . . I figure eventually each day of the year will feature a...
Colonial nonsense
Thanks to Jim, I have now seen Josh Parsons's "The world's flags given letter grades," and I am a happier...
Ware bee!
(There bee!) Ahem. So the maintenance guy at my apartment complex has been doing a round of heavy maintenance lately—tearing...
That SF Weekly Hugo poll again
A few weeks back, I mentioned that Science Fiction Weekly is running an unofficial Hugo poll through 9/1. I find...
Departures and food
After all these years, I still haven't learned to eat on time. Yesterday I had little to eat all day,...