Equilibrium gained and lost
Home from WisCon. Tired. It's 11:20 p.m. in Mountain View, but I'm more or less on Central time, so it...
The “I want” song and the operational theme
I recently encountered, in two very different contexts, the idea that near the beginning of most or all Disney animated...
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...