Back from Canada

November 5, 2008

We’re back from Canada and the World Fantasy Convention. I had very little to actually do at the convention— I was on one panel, and my agent took me to a concert, and other than that I had nothing to do but enj0y myself. So I did.One morning I didn’t get to sleep till nearly […]

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Athabaska!

October 30, 2008

So here we are on the Athabaska Glacier, disembarked from our custom-made Terrabus. Of the 23 Terrabuses in the world, 22 of them take folks out on the ice The 23rd is at McMurdo in Antarctica, and its name is “Ivan the Terrabus.” That’s your Antarctic humor for the day. As you can see from […]

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Sheeps!

October 30, 2008

Here’s your cute animal photo for the day: two bighorn rams grazing by the side of the road. Canadian bighorns seem a lot more tame, or maybe stupid, than New Mexico bighorns. If these were New Mexico bighorns, they’d be over the next mountain by now.

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Champ de Glace

October 29, 2008

This glacier feeds three different oceans, the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Arctic. This is one of the three places on earth that have a three-way continental divide. I don’t know where the other two are.

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Turquoise

October 29, 2008

We have spent the day surrounded by towering mountains, glacier-fed lakes, and douglas fir. This is a picture of Bow Lake, which is distinct from the other Bow Lake, and also from Lac d’Arc, which means “Bow Lake” in French. (Though Kathy’s theory was that Joan of Arc’s family moved here, and the lake was […]

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O Canada

October 27, 2008

I’m off to Canada and the World Fantasy Convention. By tomorrow, I plan to be here. (The link is a lot more impressive if you click it in the daytime.)

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Sound Familiar?

October 27, 2008

“While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst — and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us.” – Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, May […]

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Reviews Too Late: The Sandbaggers

October 27, 2008

Netflix told me I was going to like The Sandbaggers. Netflix was right.The Sandbaggers is a Cold War espionage drama dating from the 1970s— the length of the characters’ sideburns is a clue that I decoded before I got to the copyright date of MDCCCCLXXVIII. It stars the Young Roy Marsden, who looks surprisingly like […]

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Jo Walton Sez . . .

October 24, 2008

Hey, Jo Walton is saying nice things about me over on Tor.com! Williams is a remarkably underrated writer. He’s amazingly versatile and he’s never written the same book twice . . . I’ve been reading him enthusiastically and buying every book he’s written since I fell in love with Knight Moves on that long ago […]

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The Starbucks Economy

October 22, 2008

This from Daniel Gross:“I propose the Starbucks theory of international economics. The higher the concentration of expensive, nautically themed, faux-Italian-branded Frappuccino joints in a country’s financial capital, the more likely the country is to have suffered catastrophic financial losses . . . ” . . . At first blush, there’s a pretty close correlation between […]

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