My mother’s birthday
My mother would've been 71 years old today. I've apparently been confused in past birthday entries about what year she...
This year’s big Hugo controversy
A couple months ago, someone on a mailing list asked for a summary of this year's Hugo controversy. (There are...
Hugo voting: Don’t forget the lower-profile categories!
Here's the other Hugo-voting-subtleties post that I decided not to post because it didn't seem likely to be relevant. It,...
Hugo voting subtleties: The No Award test
I wrote a blog post a few months ago about how to use No Award effectively and what else to...
Downtime at WorldCon
Didn't sleep well or enough last night, mostly due to my pointlessly fretting about Mary Anne's ongoing cough (and about...
London day
Mary Anne and I both arrived at Heathrow yesterday (Wednesday) morning around 7 a.m. She'd had a row to herself...
Preliminary LonCon notes
A few quick preliminary LonCon3 notes: The line for registration is huge. It may be the longest I've ever seen....
My WorldCon schedule
I'll be arriving in London on Wednesday morning; Mary Anne and I will spend the day hanging out and battling...
Ingress: Augmented reality game
I've been playing Google's augmented-reality game Ingress intermittently for a few months now. Yesterday, I reached level 7 and (coincidentally)...
Ruby on Rails: Not as easy as it sounds
I've been making small database-backed web apps for years now, after learning how by reading the PHP code generated by...
Lucy and the Guardians at the box office
When I saw the trailer for Lucy a few months back, the movie looked pretty bad to me, but I...
Two Hugo reminders
Two quick notes: Reminder about how to make your vote most effective: to express a preference, you have to put...