Chirrup
I was sitting here doing some SH database stuff, and I put on my iTunes playlist, and along came Lui...
A cough is just a cough
Last night, I did work stuff 'til 9ish, then magazine stuff for a few hours, and then went to bed,...
Sick
Suddenly acquired a cold, or maybe something flu-like, on Thursday morning. I think it had been slowly building over the...
Mary Anne’s online writing classes start tomorrow
Mary Anne is running three different three-week online writing workshops this month: one for beginners (both fiction and nonfiction), one...
Chicago trip
Wrote most of this entry a week ago, but failed to finish and post it. Headed off to Chicago midday...
Best means of contacting me in general
I keep running into situations where various of my friends don't know this, so figured I should post about it:...
Three hoax phone calls
It seems to me that the prominence of hoax phone calls has been increasing lately, though maybe it's just a...
Le Guin: Gifts, Voices, Powers
At some point--last year's WisCon, maybe?--I finally picked up the first two books in Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore....
Why the typo thing is really more complicated than I make it sound
I just wrote the following to Project Gutenberg: I just encountered an interesting possible problem in your edition of Northanger...
Wanted: infinite access for proofreading the web
When I was in college, we had a MUD. (Named TinySwat, iIrc.) I was one of the "wizards" who ran...
Chaucer hath a blog
I just happened across Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog ("A Directorie of Wondirful Thinges that are Loial to Engelonde")....
TV roundup
A few notes on various TV shows I've been watching. No specific spoilers here, but there are some general sort...