Poly Pogo
Just came across this tidbit in old email. In the Pogo comic strip dated 13 December 1951, Churchy and Albert...
Howl’s Moving Castle inventiveness
One quick note about the commentary on Howl's Moving Castle: A bunch of people in the supplemental materials on the...
Paperbacks mostly done
I unpacked all but four of the twenty-or-so boxes of my father's books. Two of the remaining ones contains papers,...
French organization?
Late this morning, there was a knock on my door. I answered it, in my bathrobe, to find two nattily...
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.