Hugo voting: to express a preference, put it on the ballot
There's a Livejournal post that's making the rounds, about how to use No Award in your Hugo voting. It gives...
Kids, part 1: first contact
(First in a planned series of posts about my interactions with friends' kids.) I didn't have much to do with...
Complicated
I was going to say it's been a difficult week, but then I remembered that there've also been plenty of...
The octopus and its friend
Kam and I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium's new Tentacles exhibit over the weekend. I was telling Arthur about it,...
Hugos 2014: Venues
Another unusual thing about this year's Hugo nominees is where the short fiction was published. As I noted last year,...
You, too, can vote in the Hugos!
I've seen a bunch of people say in the past couple of days that they're not eligible to vote in...
Hugo nominees 2014: Gender notes
I want to spend the next couple of days writing and reading nonstop about the 2014 Hugo Award nominees, but...
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Saw the new Captain America movie with Kam a few days ago. Short version of my reaction: I loved it....
Unreliable-narrator songs?
Started wondering yesterday about songs with unreliable narrators. I feel like there are a bunch of them; any suggestions? The...
My WisCon panels
Looks like I'll be on two panels at WisCon this year. Both of them are about aspects of gender that...
Musing about setting goals and establishing habits
About a year and a half ago, I started flossing regularly. I had been told to floss since I was...
My fiction writing in March
For the month of March, I promised myself that I would write fiction every day. And I did. This is...