Peeve: duration of dialogue
While I'm on the topic of my pet peeves about time in fiction, I may as well mention another one:...
Pet peeve: “minute”
This is a really minor thing, but I just saw it again in a published story, so I figured I...
Another week flies by
Very sleepy and meandering summary of the week: Kam returned from Burning Man; Lola returned from Strawberry; my nose has...
262,800 minutes
"Seasons of Love" (lyrics) was running through my head again just now (that's been happening a lot lately; it's very...
CA Assembly approves same-sex marriage
Wow. I had been assuming that this wouldn't come to a vote for a long time, and that when it...
This and that
(Yikes! No wonder the comment-spam levels have dropped precipitously—I broke the comments-display pages for my and Mary Anne's journals a...
More on Love’s Labour’s Lost
Just discovered that I never got around to watching the bonus features on the Love's Labour's Lost DVD and so...
Introduction to HTML
Someone on a mailing list asked about how to create web pages. I dusted off an old intro-to-HTML page I...
Old movies in Palo Alto
The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto is showing The Big Sleep and (the original) Sabrina for the next few days....
Same-sex marriage in CA
I meant to mention: yesterday, the California state Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage. "It is the first time a...
Addenda
I'm thoroughly embarrassed to have forgotten one thing (at least) in that last entry: thanks to our donors! Strange Horizons...
Five years!
Strange Horizons launched on September 1, 2000. (After about nine months of planning—and at the end of one of the...