Dangerous Encounter

April 28, 2010

I was contemplating the moon at 2:30 this morning from the hot tub, and I looked down to see an enormous hound standing under the elm tree staring at me. It looked big enough to rip my arm off. I had a moment of frigid horror, and then the hound moo’d and wandered off, chewing […]

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The Persistence of Vision (New Mexico)

April 26, 2010

Saturday night we drove to Santa Fe to enjoy a baroque concert. It might as well have been titled “Music You’ve Heard a Lot,” as it included Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Bach’s Concerto in D for Two Violins, and a concerto grosso by Handel, the precise title of which escapes me. Whether you know it or […]

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90 Years and Counting . . .

April 23, 2010

Happy National Sovereignity Day to my friends in Turkey!

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Dead Print, Dead Paper

April 22, 2010

I’m trying to decide whether or not I want to drop my subscription to Albuquerque’s sole surviving daily paper.I don’t want to, y’know, be Part of the Problem. Newspapers are dying. Friends of mine in the newspaper business have been laid off and can’t find jobs. Journalism is a (potentially) noble profession and a (potential) […]

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At the Club Savoy . . .

April 21, 2010

I’m brush-whacking and sawing dead limbs off my apricot trees today, so while I’m ducking deadwood and dodging the chainsaw, please enjoy Virginia O’Brien (“Miss Deadpan”) recalling a night of adventure.

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Come Up the Mountain

April 16, 2010

Y’know, yesterday was one of those days when it occurred to me that I might just be a good teacher. I got an email from my sometime student Saladin Ahmed (Taos Toolbox 2007) that he’s just got an agent. This is on top of an amazing few weeks: a Nebula nomination, a Campbell nomination for […]

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Goldman Sachs Gets Theirs

April 16, 2010

Ah, lovely! The S.E.C. is finally suing those meretricious smart bastards at Goldman, Sachs for selling their customers the same bonds they were shorting in the market. And which were, furthermore, structured to fail and to make Goldman a ton of money. The instrument in the S.E.C. case, called Abacus 2007-AC1, was one of 25 […]

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New This Week!

April 16, 2010

Tor Books has done an amazing job of publishing two of my friends on the same day! First up is my former student, Ian Tregillis, who is a Los Alamos physicist, and who in his spare time wrote a trilogy that has me clenching my jaw with bilious envy. Bitter Seeds is the first in […]

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The Truth . . . about Popcorn Lung

April 15, 2010

I just found out that someone I know has popcorn lung, an irreversible lung disease caused by inhaling the buttery aroma of microwave popcorn, or specifically diacetyl, the chemical used to produce the buttery taste in the absence of actual butter. Diacetyl is also found in candies and wines. [In interests of fairness, I would […]

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Des Imperiums

April 14, 2010

The Praxis is now available in Germany. I advise you all to buy lots of copies for your German friends.

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