Not really a con report
Back home from WisCon. WisCon good. WisCon fun. Met many new people. Am exhausted. For those worried about the fact...
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Interim WisCon report
Just stopping by for a minute. Been off email for something like 60 hours—left home Thursday morning, didn't get a...
Editing like a fiend
Productive day for editing. Finalized one story for which edits had been in progress, did complete edit-and-finalize on another story,...
Words I learned today
floruit: a period during which something flourishes. kennel: a gutter. Reading enhances vocabulary! Even so, I don't normally happen across...
Bad timing
Sigh. I ordered a spiffy new toy on the morning of Friday the 10th; I was told it would be...
Exceeding fine
In 1654, one Friedrich von Logau wrote something in German that Longfellow (sometime in the 1800s) translated into English as:...
Where do the days go?
Spent much of the weekend working on cleaning apartment in preparation for workshop meeting on Sunday afternoon. Got a lot...
Quick entry
Yesterday was Kam's birthday; spent the day hanging out with her. We went to an early-afternoon showing of Attack of...
Purple carrots!
They're growing purple carrots—which turns out to be the color carrots used to be before the Dutch turned them orange...
Shrinking quarters
Using a high voltage capacitor bank to apply a current of over 1 million amperes to a quarter, causing the...
Fun with biometrics
Cute article in the Crypto-Gram crypto/security newsletter about a Japanese cryptographer who's developed a way to cheaply and easily create...
Relatedly
I've been reading Eric Shanower's comic book Age of Bronze, as collected into A Thousand Ships, the first of several...