Resubmissions
I've noticed a couple of recurring problems in submissions to SH lately, so I wanted to spread the word about...
Women in Judaism
Overheard while standing in line for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a bit of dialogue between a young...
Super Rescue
It occurs to me that most superheroes are, in a sense, super-cops. The main thing they do is fight crime....
Still here
Mary Anne pointed out that I haven't posted since shortly after my arrival in Chicago last weekend. I've been intermittently...
Chicago
Kam took me to the San Francisco airport on Saturday morning, and I arrived safely in Chicago on Saturday evening....
R.I.P., Jim Baen
I knew Jim Baen had had a stroke a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn't known until just now...
Swords
I still haven't put together my planned detailed discussion of Ellen Kushner's forthcoming book The Privilege of the Sword (aka...
Weekend update
Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent...
Another magazine milestone
We received our 14,000th submission at Strange Horizons yesterday. At the current rate of submissions, I'm expecting we'll reach 15,000...
Solstice
I slept right through the summer solstice this morning. Which is good, because it was at 5:26 a.m. California time....
Underhand weave
A couple weeks ago, it occurred to me that the three-beat poi-spinning weave I had learned involved spinning the poi in the "overhand" direction, and that it ought to be possible to do a variant on the same thing in the underhand direction.
New links section
I finally recently got around to adding a list-of-links section in a sidebar on my journal page. The idea is...