“Shore Leave” and the back rub
I've been occasionally rewatching Star Trek: TOS episodes. Tonight, foiled by a stomachache from my original plan of attending various...
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Orphan Black Hugo rec
Kam and I have just finished watching the first season of the Canadian TV show Orphan Black, and I love...
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Every time I mention Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and someone says they haven't heard of it,...
Overheard in First Class
On Wednesday, as I was walking to my seat on the airplane, I passed through the first class section (as...
Day Break
At some point in the past couple years, Karen (and possibly other people) recommended a fairly obscure 2006 TV series...
Coraline and the perils of DRM: A case study
In 2003, on the evening when Hugo votes were due, I bought a copy-protected PDF ebook of Coraline from the...
Some recommendations on applying for tech writer jobs
I've interviewed a lot of tech writer candidates in my past few jobs, and it occurs to me that it...
Trek fan films with Chekov, Uhura, Tuvok, and Rand
I just found out about Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, a 90-minute Star Trek fan film released in 2008,...
Survivors of Suicide Day
This coming Saturday will be International Survivors of Suicide Day. When I saw that phrase, I thought that it was...
Seven things about me
There's this thing going around on Facebook, where you post some number of pieces of information about yourself that other...
Looking for a voice teacher
I think I may be looking for a voice teacher in the South Bay. Any recommendations? A month ago, I...
Mood swingy
(For anyone missing the context: Today is the 33rd anniversary of my mother's death, and it would've been my father's...