I was wondering whether something like this might eventually happen. Weird to see that it has — $1.7m Harry Potter books stolen… ….Turns out that story was confused: the real…
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Writer-In-A-Can 1: Meeting the Transcendent Pig
Comments here, in the quoted parts, from a friend: “So the Pig is one of those characters that just waits on the sidelines for a good book to wander into…
The copyedited MS for Wizard’s Holiday has come back, and I have a lot of work to do to get it handled before we go away for a few days…
The word alone is worth the price of admission. (Another good one from the same source: “gyrobifastigium”.) But wait, there’s more! Here’s a picture of one aboard the Intenational Space…
Every now and then I go through the user logs to see who’s come to see the blog, and where they came from. A lot of people arrive via Google.…
Bearing in mind that this was the kind of family who would torture you for not performing well enough in the national soccer team…you don’t want this to be your…
“Sausage” and “origami.” (link via Die Puny Humans)
The time is approaching when I’m going to be replacing Ryoh-ohki with her smarter younger sister (who will also be Ryoh-ohki). When the first machine gets back from her impending…
(a) The courier from Fountains and Decor never did arrive. Mutter. They’d better be here today before noon…otherwise I can’t take delivery on the pots until Thursday, as between then…
— was that the world was about to go slightly nuts. Like this: 0900: Awakened by Beemer. Feed cats. Shower, dress, eat a little something, spend the time until approximately…
Trust Doc to get there first.
Wow, Beemer let me sleep until almost 9 AM. How did that happen?…
Wizard’s Holiday is with its editor now, and I expect I should be hearing from him momentarily with notes on the manuscript. While that’s happening…there’s this strange brief halcyon time…
After all these years of marriage I’ve acquired from Peter a certain love of crew patches. So I have to have these… (And I have a feeling Peter’s going to…
How on Earth could I have missed this story the other day? “The celebrated fairy bush of Latoon, Co Clare has confounded all expectations to sprout leaves again – eight…
They’re the best… The sun comes up at 5 AM at the moment, and doesn’t go down till quarter of eleven. I can get a lot of work done on…
Convivium is a peer-reviewed online journal concerned with food representation in film, literature and the arts. This is an area dear to my heart — and to Peter’s: he’s the…
Butt arrested over night club incident (Sorry if this is “premium content”…) The gist of the story: “England and Manchester United soccer star Nicky Butt has been arrested by police…
— but others didn’t. The lovely shot at the right comes from a photographer who was at Cape Wrath in Scotland for annular totality. Lots of other shots can be…
Very large. I suspect I had some memory of Vance’s “Big Planet” in the back of my mind (waaaay in the back: it must be twenty-five or thirty years since…
— the latest excerpt from Wizard’s Holiday is up now at the YW site.
Oh well. First of all, it was cloudy. Secondly, I slept in. We were out last night with friends Pádraig and Deirdre and James, having sushi at Aya, and while…
Here’s the local eclipse path, for those who may be interested. Specific circumstances for the UK and Ireland are here on Fred Espenak’s eclipse page for NASA.