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...
Father’s Day plus assorted miscellany
Belated happy Father's Day to all y'all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day. My day was okay. Slow...
Comment spam update
I've been meaning to mention for a couple weeks that I seem to have found a good solution, for now...
Assumptions and queries
Say you're a writer, and you want to submit to a magazine. Say you've actually read their submission guidelines, but there was something in them that you think the editors can't possibly have meant.
Strange Horizons fiction submission form
We've finally decided to take the RTF submission system out of beta, and to make it the official preferred submission...
Strange Horizons forum still down
In case anyone's been wondering what's up with the SH forum and missed Susan's explanation: Last Friday (9 June), Susan...
Photos
Some assorted photos, and some thoughts about public posting of photos: Thanks to my Uncle Dobe for providing a really...
Review: The Da Vinci Code
Kam and I saw The Da Vinci Code a couple weeks ago. A few thoughts and comments: I haven't read...
Ones and zeroes and copies
It's fairly common in science fiction these days to see sentient beings in electronic form--whether artificial intelligences or uploaded human...
Flaky
I forgot to say in that previous entry: I've been awfully flaky lately about replying to email and such. I...