Writing challenge/exercise: long titles
Not sure what to write next? Here's a challenge: Come up with a title that's at least seven words long...
Three Strange Horizons items
Three quick things as I rush off to a meeting: Susan's been nominated for a Special Award in the World...
Blog Against Racism Week
This past week has been International Blog Against Racism Week, and I've been so out of touch that I nearly...
Defensiveness
Every now and then, someone says something online that upsets me or hurts my feelings, because I am a delicate...
Arcade games (and pinball) in San Jose this weekend
This weekend in San José is California Extreme 2007, "an annual celebration of coin operated pinball machines [and] video games,"...
Flash, Java, and JavaScript games/toys/puzzles roundup
Assorted interesting and/or cool online games, toys, and puzzles: Gimme Friction Baby, which Charles D described as "sort of a...
Gabrielle’s story
On December 1, 1997 (almost ten years ago), I received an odd piece of email, from someone I didn't know,...
Haven’t you always wanted a monkey (on a plane)?
Various news sources seem uncertain whether to treat the news of a man bringing a pygmy marmoset on a flight...
Bridges and collapse
I was very sorry last week to hear about the bridge that collapsed in the Twin Cities, and relieved to...
Quick updates
Sorry not to post much lately. The memorial on Saturday was good. More on that later, I hope. Sunday I...
Home safe
Made it home, only about three hours later than planned. (Flight delays.) Had a couple hours to check email and...
Gray
In cloudy Issaquah we lay our scene. I flew up last night, and am staying at the Larkspur Landing as...