Imminent and upcoming readings/events at Borderlands
Borderlands Books, in San Francisco, has a bunch of readings and other events coming soon. For example: Date and time...
Eleanor Arnason has a blog
I've been meaning for quite some time to link to Eleanor Arnason's blog, but I don't think I ever got...
How’s that Singularity coming along?
In Vernor Vinge's seminal 1993 article on the Singularity, he wrote: Within thirty years, we will have the technological means...
Featured blog
My journal will be one of the featured blogs on the featured blogs page on the Asimov's site and the...
Birthdays this week
Earlier in the week, we had Gandhi's birthday on Monday, then Melissa S's on Tuesday, then Jim M's on Wednesday....
Submission volume
For the first five months of this year, submission volume each month at Strange Horizons almost exactly matched submission volume...
Assorted updates
Spent all day Thursday flying to Boston. Read SWAPA (an APA I'm in) most of the way, plus a little...
Impending Boston trip
Tomorrow morning I head off for a week in Boston; thence down to Swarthmore for a long weekend for the...
More re John M. Ford
I was sad all day today. Even though I didn't know him. Perhaps because so many people wrote, eloquently, about...
R.I.P., John M. Ford
Author John M. "Mike" Ford died early this morning or late last night, at the age of 49. Elise Matthesen...
Ramadan begins
Among some groups, and in some parts of the world, Ramadan has already begun; among other groups and in other...
Ninja
So enough about pirates. As I was walking back to my desk this evening, I saw a guy dressed somewhat...