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Assorted sf notes

Some deadlines, to-do items, and con-related notes, and more good news for SH.

Jed

February 16, 2006
Filed under: Awards, Conventions, Speculative Fiction, Strange Horizons
5 Comments

Convention programming participation

Tonight I dropped a note to the WorldCon people asking if I could be on their program, and I filled...

Jed

February 16, 2006
Filed under: Conventions
0 Comments

R.I.P., Andreas “G’Kar” Katsulas

Andreas Katsulas, who played G'Kar on Babylon 5, has died of lung cancer at age 59. I knew nothing about...

Jed

February 15, 2006
Filed under: Death, Speculative Fiction, Television
1 Comment

Persistence of Smithsonian

The previous owner of my house is still on the Smithsonian catalog mailing list. As those of you who've been...

Jed

February 14, 2006
Filed under: Customer Service, Customer Service Demon
5 Comments

Door UI documentation

There's a door at work with a label next to it that reads, in half-inch-high capital letters: "DON'T PULL THE...

Jed

February 14, 2006
Filed under: UI Design
0 Comments

Year’s Bests!

Various editors of the various Year's Best science fiction and fantasy volumes have started posting their tables of contents. And...

Jed

February 14, 2006
Filed under: Strange Horizons
0 Comments

Quick note on cover letters

I've been seeing this a fair bit lately: cover letters in which authors explain that they haven't been published, but...

Jed

February 13, 2006
Filed under: Writing
2 Comments

RTF update

Rather to my surprise, only three people have used the experimental RTF submission system in the week since I mentioned...

Jed

February 13, 2006
Filed under: Strange Horizons
6 Comments

Genre levels

Some thoughts on plausibility and genre conventions.

Jed

February 11, 2006
Filed under: Roleplaying, Speculative Fiction, Writing
6 Comments

Multilanguage (programming) comments

Last week at work, I sat down and wrote a quick little Perl utility. I tried to run the script,...

Jed

February 10, 2006
Filed under: Programming
2 Comments

Getting-things-wrong week

The insomnia thing is back. This past year, it's been a big relief that, for the most part, despite all...

Jed

February 10, 2006
Filed under: Customer Service, Customer Service Demon, Life Updates
1 Comment

Birthdays

I've been falling down in my self-appointed task of calling attention to people's birthdays. And I don't have time now...

Jed

February 9, 2006
Filed under: Birthdays
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