…A little belatedly. Even through the holiday period, work has had to continue on some projects, and everything else has been getting a little behind, particularly blogging. But this goes…
Oh dear. Once upon a time, long ago, when Peter and I were courting, the US bombed Libya. As a result, US air travel to Europe fell off big time.…
…A long hiatus between that last post and this one. I’ve been nose-deep in Wizards at War, while also running over to Geneva to take care of some business (and…
Or maybe I’m just indulging in wishful thinking. Of course snow causes all kinds of trouble…but I wish I were in New York right now. Or rather, that I was…
“Camembert is a lot more like the McMerde burger than you might suppose. Pierre Boisard seeks to show how, over the past 150 years or so, the cheese has been…
“The Republic …sailed from New York in 1865, just after the Civil War, carrying 59 passengers and crew and a mixed cargo meant to help New Orleans recover from the…
…about some of the people whose searches bring them to our sites. On the Owlsprings.com site, at “Homeward”, our informal bio / biblio / homestuff site, is a story called…
It’s been an interesting year, and there’s a whole lot to be thankful for. But there are things it would be a mistake not to remember as well.
“‘The only authentic musical I ever worked in was called “Lock Up Your Daughters,”‘ Mr. [Patrick] Stewart said, out in the street after the show. ‘I played a character called…
For this New Yorker, at least, worth a read.
“Micromechatronics.” “…Seiko Epson Corp. has developed a micro robot weighing just 8.9 grams that can fly. …The “Micro Flying Robot” gains levitation by the application of two contra-rotating propellers powered…
I swear, you can’t turn your back on the Sun for a moment, just now. Sunspot 484 and its buddies 486 and 488 have swung back around from the far…
Some readers of Wizard’s Holiday, considering events detailed toward the end of the book, have been heard muttering that they are Too Damn Much Like Reality. NASA tells us we…
This link is probably premium-content, but never mind. “BERLIN — Kristanna Loken (‘Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines’), Benno Furmann (‘The Order’) and Alicia Witt (‘Two Weeks Notice’) will star…
I’d heard about it on and off, through other people’s blogs, over the last ten days or so. This morning, when it more or less shoved itself under my nose…
“This fellow started to stalk us at night. He’d start howling like a werewolf at midnight outside our house, which frightened the other kids. “My son left and moved into…
…(when I have three minutes to rub together) which caused Philosoraptor to produce the juicy, extended and delightful rant of which the following is part: “So, anyway, like I said…
That’s probably not going to be its name. There are too many other things around at the moment with “Ring” in the title. But never mind that. After four years…
You wonder what was going on with her to produce the particularly snarky tone of this article…
I’ll show you a mirror site. Heh.
Responding to Spammers — The Internet Strikes Back (Thanks to Kuro5hin for the link.)
“Offense is fine,” says one of the characters in Wizards at War to another, regarding the imminent invasion, “but you need defense too. How are we defining the defensive volume?”…
And apparently have agreed with in the past, without knowing it. Philip Pullman wrote a terrific thing just now for the New York Times on how fantasy is simply what…
Out of Ambit seems to have turned up as an Interesting Blog (and an Interesting Newcomer as well!) on Technorati. And in the middle of both lists, as well! Alas,…