Sidewise
The nominees for this year's Sidewise Award (for alternate-history fiction) have been announced. I find it interesting that once again...
CalTrain commuting
As of this week, CalTrain has instituted new service: it features "baby bullet" trains that skip most of the stops...
Just so you know
I ate the cherries that were in the fridge Sorry they were damn good, though (Forgive me, William Carlos...
10 fiction books to rebuild culture
Plantgirl asks: What 10 works of fiction would you want after the apocalypse when these are going to be the...
Campbell Award Smackdown
I neglected to mention, in talking about WisCon, attending the first-ever Campbell Award Smackdown, featuring full-contact rock/paper/scissors among the three...
Items: money, books, Photoshop, satire, and sex
Some assorted items: Money-game experiments show cultural variances in behavior: some economists decided to try some economic games/experiments with people...
Work notes
I'm now commuting to San Francisco three days a week. It's not as bad as I'd expected, but I still...
Catchup
After learning that I wasn't going to be leaving Madison on Monday, I had a nice evening hanging out...
WisCon report (long)
I had mixed feelings about WisCon. I'll get to some of the high points later. First, the less-good stuff, mostly...
Submission milestone and stats
As of sometime in the past week, we've received over 8000 submissions since we started taking subs, by about 3500...
Delays
Called yesterday early afternoon about my flight out of Madison, was told it would be about half an hour late....
Poly booklist
Was on a panel on polyamory in sf this afternoon; was surprised to find that there doesn't seem to be...