Items: Writing advice
In the past few days, I keep coming across various items of advice and commentary about writing. (The focus here...
Emperors
Found while trying to decide whether to keep various paperbacks from among my father's books: It is not always a...
Unrecognized countries
I got curious about various things about official recognition of national sovereignty, which quickly led me to Wikipedia's List of...
Items: In other news
Seems like there's been a whole bunch of other news and quasinews and other items of interest lately. Some notes:...
Computer game day
Today's been a day full of computer games. I took a vacation day, 'cause Mary Anne was here. We were...
WisCon 2007 notes
Hotel rooms for WisCon 31 are going fast; already there are no Governor's Club rooms left. The hotel will sell...
Daylight’s return
This year's winter solstice will occur at 7:22 p.m. Eastern (US) Standard Time on December 21. Which is to say,...
Year’s Bests info site
It seems like every year we SH editors frantically scurry around to all sorts of websites and journals and things,...
Productive
I barely budged from the computer all weekend, except for some forays into other things that needed doing around the...
Safeword: “Palomino”
Saturday Night Live did a sketch recently showing a message from "Nancy Pelosi" (played by Kristin Wiig), about "San Francisco...
Auspicious
In addition to being Tim's birthday, today (which is to say Tuesday the 12th) was notable for a couple of...
Tim Pratt at 30
I believe this is clue #10 in the Great Birthday Treasure Hunt Extravaganza. As you know, Bob, Tim Pratt's works...