Amendment defeated
In happy news entirely unrelated to the debate, the US House of Representatives has voted down the anti-same-sex-marriage amendment....
Debate humor
I'm half-listening to the debate on Internet radio; so far, nobody's said "Pookie" or "Diddums," but I'm still hoping. If...
Items: Presidential politics
I could post about what's up with me, but nothing of particular interest going on. I mean, I could tell...
Items: packing peanuts
This came up in conversation last night: Not sure what to do with those styrofoam packing peanuts? Well, technically they're...
Items: sex and death by computer
First the death: metanet software provides a free computer game called n. In it, you manipulate a little stick-figure ninja,...
Knock knock
Mary Anne told me this knock-knock joke recently, and it instantly became my favorite knock-knock joke: Ralph: Knock knock. Sally:...
Items: reader contract, Rice, Marquis, Clarke, Sim
Today's loose theme: authors and the reader contract. Sherwood Smith posted a couple weeks ago about the reader contract; good...
Who the editors are
I should start by noting that it seems like almost everything I write lately seems to come out sounding either...
Items: Rocket ships, mechanical pong, liquid-free alcohol, lockpicking, clocks
It's been a while since I've posted a URL sweep. I've been collecting URLs, but I don't want to just...
Brightly dawns the wedding day
Hey, Kathleen—I didn't know you read my journal, or I had forgotten. Congratulations again! It was a lovely day for...
That old circle of life thing
It's been a rough year for mothers—though in another sense, it's been a very good year for mothers. The mothers...
Gmail invites
I keep forgetting to mention that, like almost everyone else in the known universe, I have some gmail invites. If...