Taxonomy

November 12, 2013

The taxonomic name for this lovely creature is “wonderpus photogenicus.” No, really.  It absolutely is. Sometimes you gotta love reality.

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A Quiet Reminder . . .

November 12, 2013

That you should all be honing your submissions for Taos Toolbox, the master class for writing SF and fantasy, which will be held July 6-19, 2014, in Taos Ski Valley.  Teaching will be Nancy Kress, Walter Jon Williams, and special lecturer Ian Tregillis. Submissions open on December 1!  And in the meantime, sharpen your prose.

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How Can You Possibly Resist This Darling Face?

November 11, 2013
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Nudibranchs in Love

November 10, 2013

Mother Ocean must be singing songs of sweet, sweet love, because I keep finding nudibranchs in pairs.  Nudibranchs are found all over the reef, and most of them are small and lovely.  (The shorter nudis in these photos are only a couple centimeters long.) Nudibranchs are basically sea snails that have lost, or rather drastically […]

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Bandwidth

November 10, 2013

A note on the bandwidth here.  The last photo I uploaded took 40 minutes.  The last email I sent took over an hour.  For the last two or three days, I’ve got no email at all. This I could perhaps have dealt with gracefully: if it doesn’t Send the first time, you just keep hitting […]

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Spot the Fish in This Picture

November 6, 2013
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Picture of the day

November 5, 2013

This turtle was, for some reason, quite interested in me. He sailed along the reef, encountered me taking pictures, and then circled me two or three times before moving on. He was maybe four feet long, and quite blasé about meeting us. Maybe turtles are blasé about everything. There are more turtles here than I’ve […]

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In the Strait

November 2, 2013

After 44 hours of airplanes, airports, a bus ride on a Third World road, a voyage on a Third World boat, I made it to my current location just in time for the sun to set behind the local volcano. I’m going to wash off the travel and go to bed.

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Open Topic

October 31, 2013

Since I’m going to be flying a dozen time zones in the next couple days, I’m not going to be here much.  So I’m going to do as friend of the blog TRX suggested recently, and have an open topic. If you have any questions, want to make any announcements, or have any good jokes, […]

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Going Bamboo

October 31, 2013

I had one of those birthdays just recently, one with a zero in it that’s supposed to be a landmark of some sort. So, in the spirit of flipping the bird at my birthday, I’m getting on a plane today and going to Indonesia for nearly three weeks.  I’ll be mostly on the island of […]

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