There were a couple of things I neglected to mention on May 1. First, I didn't mention a couple of...
Being in charge of the Hugos is always a thankless task, but this year I suspect it's more thankless than...
Interesting piece in Slate by Mark Lewis about America's flirtation with empire in the Philippines in the first half of...
For those who haven't seen this elsewhere (thanks to David M. for bringing it to my attention): The only publicly-traded...
Correction to earlier entry: loud-car-guy's new parking space is actually more like 20 feet from my bedroom window, not 10;...
Happy Beltane, everyone! Also, happy International Workers' Day! Slept a little better last night. Thanks for all the suggestions. May...
The one bit of particularly good news today was the arrival in the mail of a package from amazon.co.uk. One...
(Which is to say, Speculative Fiction Magazine In Search Of Fiction Editor.) Sadly, enigmatic non-A.I. fiction editor Chris Heinemann (at...
Latest car-guy update: building management has worked out a compromise with him, whereby instead of parking 20 feet from my...
I now have no idea what led me to Linguistiblog a few weeks back. And I haven't been reading it...
We had breakfast this morning at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill in the SLC airport. The sort of place I...
The Pair server that contains the database where my and Vardibidian's journals are stored crashed early this morning, taking its...