Ear Bugs

November 11, 2007

I am always surrounded by music, this despite the fact that I rarely seem to get around to turning on the radio or playing a CD. There is a radio station in my head, though like a Top 40 station it just plays the same songs over and over. Today I made a point of […]

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Omniscient Narrator Surprised

November 11, 2007

“PROVIDENCE, RI—The third-person limited omniscient voice, a narrative mode used to convey a story through the thoughts and senses of a literary character, was reportedly “caught totally off guard” after the main character was unexpectedly killed in the last chapter of the new novel Bertram’s Way. . . “The rest here.

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All We Need Are a Couple Wee Little Speakers. . .

November 7, 2007

“Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have builtthe world’s smallest radio out of single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair. “Researchers say the tiny radio needs only a battery and a pair ofearphones to hook listeners up with their favorite radio stations. But that’s not all the new device could […]

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Back from WFC

November 7, 2007

So in New York and in Saratoga I saw and talked to Constance Ash, Tim Holman, Alex Lencicki, Alice Emigh, Saladin Ahmed, Cat Rambo, Oz, Christopher Cevasco, Tim & Serena Powers, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey Jacoby, Joe and Gay Haldeman, Ian Tregillis, Melinda Snodgrass, Kelly Link, Jeremy Lassen, Moebius, Elizabeth Bear, L.E. Modesitt, George RR Martin, […]

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Road Trip

October 29, 2007

I’m gone to World Fantasy Convention. If I don’t see you there, I’ll check in here when I get back.

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Avast, Ye Mummy!

October 29, 2007

So here I am at Pat and Scott’s Halloween party. The party had an Egyptian theme: the conceit is that I am there for the Battle of the Nile. Sage Walker took the picture. I used to throw Halloween parties myself— I was born around the holiday, after all. But then once I got invited […]

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Geezer Test

October 28, 2007

Me-Day has dawned. Since it’s now my birthday, and the whole day is entirely about me— making it not unlike other days, actually— it’s only appropriate that I devise a test to discover if you guys are as wise as I am. The following questions are devised in order to discover if your brain is […]

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Me-Day

October 27, 2007

Hey, Sunday is my birthday!I feel precisely one year older than I did this time last year.

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WFT???

October 26, 2007

Okay, so here we are on a death metal Japanese cooking show. Aliens are among us.

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Running, Jumping, Smashing the Mall

October 25, 2007

Not much time for posting today, so I thought I might link to another cool parkour video. And then I thought, hey, why not link to the the guy who really invented this stuff? Doing not only le parkour, but kung fu.Co-starring Brigitte Lin as the Woman Treated Like a Sack of Potatoes, and Maggie […]

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