Day 4
I'll try and post a more substantive entry sometime soon. For now, more SH stats: Yesterday, we received another 21...
Day 3
Today: 24 submissions--more than either of the past two days, and tied for second-highest-volume day ever. For those keeping score...
Day 2, plus musing about programming
Today we received 22 more submissions. Also, I wrote some new code to make it easier for me to enter...
Farewell to the Infinite Matrix
Friday brought the sad news that The Infinite Matrix, once the second-highest-paying online speculative fiction venue, is closing its doors....
California Winter: The Album
It occurred to me Sunday morning, after being awakened by a windstorm that was related to the flooding that's happening...
Day 1
Submission volume today was high but not quite as high as I expected: "only" 23 submissions today (during normal periods,...
Productive
Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes...
Curses
Luke H. just pointed to a New Yorker humor piece from mid-2004, "New Details Surface," by Paul Simms, that made...
Austrian political “porn” billboards
The Times Online reports that the Austrian government is sponsoring an art project featuring sexually explicit political posters: specifically, there's...
Song of Childe Roland Ballads
One of the problems with getting a lot of your history from fantasy novels is that it's easy to conflate...
Word-processor paragraphing
I've had occasion recently to see a couple of authors' word-processor documents, and I've noticed that some authors are using...
Bouncy ball-droppy soundy pingy thing
Scott introduced me to a nifty software toy: BallDroppings, available for Mac, Windows, and mobile phones, plus a Java version....