The magic frog-hair
When I was a kid, sometimes we would use a wooden match to light a fire or a candle or...
Strange Horizons fund drive 2008
It's time for this year's Strange Horizons fund drive. Susan has posted a couple of entries about it on the...
Submission update
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 1 April 2008; if you or anyone...
Women in Horror
I just happened across a site called Pretty/Scary: "For Women in Horror, By Women in Horror." I'm not into horror...
Satellite image of Wiscon (Florida, that is)
I couldn't figure out why one of my online photo albums seemed to be tagged as having been taken in...
Same-sex marriage: 2 polls disagree
Those of you who've been following the same-sex-marriage situation in CA may've noticed something odd (I'm almost tempted to say...
Same-sex marriage: 10 Attorneys General agree
I've still got a bunch of entries on this topic waiting to be written, but I'm gonna leapfrog over those...
Moral: Don’t lose things while flying Northwest
Can I just mention that the automated systems for handling customer service issues at Northwest Airlines suck? Even by my...
Home safe
Largely unremarkable travel day today. Except: most of the way through the second leg of my flight, I reached for...
Some WisCon highs and lows
Some of the very best things about WisCon for me this year: Talking with the totally awesome Karen Healey (who...
Sick
Hoping to post a WisCon wrapup/summary soonish, but this ain't it. Last night around 2:30 a.m. I decided to head...
Weekend paradigms/metaphors
On a mailing list recently, someone commented that in a corporate environment, there are two kinds of people: wolves and...