Mood swings
Had various invitations to Thanksgiving dinner for today, but although they were tempting, I ended up declining all of them....
Unusual points of view
Some notes on point-of-view handling in works by three authors: One idiosyncrasy of H. Beam Piper's writing, at least in the...
Greek suffix meets Lingua Terra
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make...
Annual temporary SH closure in December
As usual, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the month of December this year. If...
New favorite Treo app
Google Maps is now available as a standalone app for the Treo.
Items: Technology and society
These and the Bussard stuff in the previous entry seem to sort of fit into a general theme, something to...
Bussard on safe cheap fusion
Dr. Robert Bussard, best known in the sf world as inventor of the Bussard ramjet, has spent the past 15+...
Eight hours
Slumber is still more sweet than toil, or so I hear.
Mac TSA PSA
I forget whether I mentioned here that the main page of the TSA website crashes Safari. If you're using Safari...
Book-shifting day, plus the Chicago Seven trial
This morning, I went over to Pam & Arthur's to help them move furniture and books; they're rearranging a bunch...
Memoriam
Tomorrow/today (Saturday the 11th) would have been my father's 67th birthday. It's also the 26th anniversary of my mother's death....
Borderlands this weekend
Reminder about two events this weekend at Borderlands Books in San Francisco: Saturday, November 11, 3:00 p.m.: Ellen Klages, reading...