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New blog about my father

I've been thinking about doing this for at least a year now, but had some hesitations about it. I've finally...

Jed

September 7, 2007
Filed under: Parents/Children/Family
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How to (and how not to) praise kids

There was a fascinating article by Po Bronson in New York Magazine this past February, titled "How Not to Talk...

Jed

September 6, 2007
Filed under: Parents/Children/Family
11 Comments

Disappointing technology

I've been disappointed with lack of forward progress in various technological stuff lately.

Jed

September 5, 2007
Filed under: Technology
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Utopia is bad?

For decades now, sf writers have been writing stories that go like this: Pick some big change (to a person...

Jed

September 4, 2007
Filed under: Speculative Fiction
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Weekend update

This weekend, I read about 70 submissions. That leaves me about a week and a half behind on reading. To...

Jed

September 3, 2007
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Pet peeve: The future of evil

(Warning: this entry contains gross imagery.) We see this kind of story fairly often: First the author postulates a future...

Jed

September 3, 2007
Filed under: Writing
6 Comments

Complete your changes

Advice to anyone who writes anything on a computer: Say you've written the line "The men ran down the hill."...

Jed

September 2, 2007
Filed under: Writing
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Beware of Quechup

A bunch of people are getting email from a new social networking site called Quechup. Unfortunately, as with some other...

Jed

September 2, 2007
Filed under: Spam
7 Comments

Congratulations to Tim!

The Hugo Awards ceremony took place not so many hours ago in Yokohama, Japan, and the results have been posted...

Jed

September 1, 2007
Filed under: Awards
3 Comments

Privatization vs. government control

Feel free to use the following cogent and unanswerable argument whenever this topic comes up.

Jed

September 1, 2007
Filed under: Favorite/Important Entries, Politics
6 Comments

Mysteriosity

Been seeing a fair number of submissions lately in which Something Mysterious Is Going On--and by two-thirds of the way...

Jed

August 31, 2007
Filed under: Writing
4 Comments

You ought to give Iowa a try

I was delighted to read this evening that a judge in Polk County, Iowa, the most populous county in the...

Jed

August 31, 2007
Filed under: Same-Sex Marriage
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