Thanks to Dave Barry’s blog for this.
I loved this the first time I saw it. I had occasion to look it up again today, and lo, I still love it. Especially the bit about the office-based…
“…new children’s books by big-name celebrities will at least initially sell well (and be foisted on defenceless kids).” Is it possible (as my mail suggests) that the kids aren’t quite…
Yesterday Peter and I went up to Dublin to do some food shopping at Asia Market, the grocery that supplies most of the Asian restaurants in town. As usual I…
And a moment from it: “3. Heraclitus sez: “Fire will come to all things, to judge and to seize.” Parmenides sez: “Nor was it at any time, nor will it…
From Variety this morning: The Flash is being retooled (without “tights” and with added time travel. Ick…) “As with ‘Smallville,’ the new ‘Flash’ will have a ‘no tights, no flights’…
From Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses: �Where are we heading, exactly?� Lee said. �East, and a little farther downtown,� the Elf-king said. �There�s another potential �rogue� worldgate nearby; we can use…
You go, Dave! Barry for President! And Lileks for VP. He won’t be in some “undisclosed location,” no sirree!
Thank you, YACCS.
From the Irish Times: “Human trials are to begin next year on the vaccine, which uses part of a common bacteria to halt the effects of these debilitating diseases. It…
A couple of takes on the Presidential address: from the Rocky Mountain Press, and from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “The chocolate-making nations,” huh. (wry look) I wonder how the Swiss feel…
…because some of the leaves on the tips of the branches of the beech trees surrounding the house are beginning to go golden. (sigh) Autumn arrives…though slowly. Maybe I’ll put…
By the way, thanks to those of you who’ve e-mailed me to tell me the comments are down. It seems that YACCS is having some kind of server problem, which…
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Things nobody but the author could possibly care about, number 3 in a series (I think)
I was looking at the covers for the digest editions of the first three YW books today, and something occurred to me about the one for Deep Wizardry. (Something besides…
Attributed to him: “First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no…
…a Creation Science Fair.
The weather grayed out yesterday evening, and something inside said, “Oh well, so much for summer weather: now the normal Irish autumn starts.” But not yet. Got up this morning…
A tale of bats stuck in windows… and unstuck.
What joy to be home. Worldcon was fun…but to stop traveling, after two weeks of being more or less constantly on the road, is more fun yet. The kitchen is…
Heh. Heh. Heh. “‘I’m a little disappointed,’ [Al Franken] told CNN. ‘I had hoped they would keep it going a few more news cycles.’ “‘It’s time to return Al Franken…
The usual pre-Worldcon madness is setting in while I’m still finishing work on this book… (Sigh.) Blogging at the end of the week may be more sporadic than usual, due…
So yesterday, after some delay, my new laptop showed up. Ryoh-ohki II (aka Ryoh-chan) is the US version of the Sharp Mebius MT1 — a Sharp Actius UM32W. Slightly bigger…
Well, only insofar as the people responsible for his movie scripts won’t be getting any residuals from TV showings until the recall is over, as FCC regulations (specifically the “equal…
“Penny-wise, pound-foolish?”