Oversocial
Friday the 25th, afternoon: Played Carcassonne with Laura, Kam, and Naomi. Evening: Dinner at newish upscale Indian place in Mountain...
Xmas story (plus recipe)
Karen Healey has posted her Christmas story: "Queen of the Kitchen." As she notes, "It is a pleasant wee thing...
When Carcassonne pigs fly
We were playing Carcassonne yesterday, and we started discussing the real-life city of Carcassonne, and the following conversation ensued (loose...
Westerns and science fiction
The opportunity of a Western is that it takes issues of our culture—conflict, racial conflict, economic injustice, what is...
The effect of reading
"[W]hat with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits." —Don Quixote, chapter...
Hallelujah Choruses
A few days ago, Amy S linked to a video of a fabulous performance: silent monks performing the Hallelujah Chorus....
Designing for a physically diverse audience
A few things that seem kind of related to me: HP's face-tracking webcam apparently doesn't detect black faces as faces....
No one can hold back the dawn
An hour from now, at 9:47 a.m. California time, our sun will reach its apparent southernmost point; the subsolar point...
Cute baby-animal photos
I wonder which there are more of on the the Internet: cute animal photos or porn photos. Anyway. Kam and...
Obama pix
The Awl recently posted an Annotated White House Flickr Feed, mostly adding snarky comments to photos from said feed. I...
In the morning
Only two more days 'til Winter Solstice. Here in California, it'll happen Monday morning at 9:47 a.m. I'm really really...
Magazine seeks First Reader
Just realized I never posted here about our job opening. For the past fourteen months or so, the SH fiction...