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Books vs pajamas

Pat (Spencer Tracy) and Jamie (Katharine Hepburn) are on a sleeper train, and the following dialogue ensues: Jamie: Would you...

Jed

March 14, 2014
Filed under: Books, Commonplace Book, Humor, Movies
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The Dead Phone: A comic monologue in one brief act

Me: Oh, no! My phone has run out of battery! Me: Alas! I cannot read while I walk, as I...

Jed

March 12, 2014
Filed under: Humor, Nature
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Chatroulette Guy does Miley Cyrus and Mariah Carey

First there was Call Me Maybe (3-min video). This guy Stephen Kardynal went on Chatroulette (the site where you can...

Jed

March 11, 2014
Filed under: Humor, Music, Net Video
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Neat sliding-number-puzzle games

There's a nifty iOS game called Threes, in which you slide numbered tiles around on a board and combine them...

Jed

March 11, 2014
Filed under: Games, Software
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Nine years

My father was killed nine years ago today. This year I've been pretty much okay. I noticed the impending anniversary...

Jed

March 7, 2014
Filed under: Death, Parents/Children/Family
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Awesome lesbian-protagonists comic: Supercakes

Mary Anne posted a link earlier to an awesome and charming and funny and sweet and thoroughly lovely 12-page comics...

Jed

March 2, 2014
Filed under: Comics, Queer
3 Comments

Sturgeon’s “Granny Won’t Knit”

In my Complete Sturgeon reading, I just read his 1954 story “Granny Won't Knit.” Spoilers and an entertaining anecdote follow....

Jed

March 2, 2014
Filed under: Books, Gender, Improving Society, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction
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Nebula nominees!

SFWA has announced this year's Nebula nominees, and I'm very pleased with them. Congratulations to all the nominees! (And double...

Jed

February 25, 2014
Filed under: Awards, Books, Short Stories, Strange Horizons, Writers
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Assorted updates

I feel like I haven't posted a general life update here in ages. Partly that's because I have half a...

Jed

February 13, 2014
Filed under: Bechdel Test, Books, Games, Life Updates, Sleep, Speculative Fiction, Theatre, Writers, Writing
2 Comments

Diversity ads

I feel like there's been an amazing spate of pro-diversity advertising in the past week. Some links: A new Cheerios...

Jed

February 9, 2014
Filed under: Improving Society, Net Video, Queer, Race/Ethnicity
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Some pros and cons of Glass

Mat Honan wore Google Glass for much of 2013; in an article for Wired, he talks about what it's like...

Jed

February 8, 2014
Filed under: Computers, Gadgets, Privacy
1 Comment

When the Internet of Things fails

For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...

Jed

February 8, 2014
Filed under: Computers, Gadgets, Security, Software, Technofailure
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