Heads Are To Story Ideas As Dryers Are To Socks

I went to a wedding in Saskatoon, and at the reception afterward, this guy I didn’t know, who was the apparent date of an ex-stripper in attendance, an ex-stripper I sort-of knew from way back when — she’d been in a dramatic production that I’d been in, a stage musical, before she got into striptease, [...]

DataHand

I’m starting to think I should start a category on this blog for gadgets I’d like to have. Tobias S. Buckell blogged about keyboard problems and a very enticing solution in the DataHand ergonomic keyboard. Check it out.

Singularity! - A Tough Guide to the Rapture of the Nerds

So Charles Stross is also sometimes a funny man. Go and see. I especially enjoyed the AD&D-styled stats.

Comments Feed Fixed

Someone emailed me to let me know that my comments feed was messed up. It’s now working, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this site here. Anyone who is magically subbed to the old address, please update your subscription!

The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot

During Clarion West, the inimitable Shawn Scarber shared with us, his classmates, the wonderful reference source that should be available to all writers of genre fiction, especially those working in the short form — though the tips found within the guide may well work for longer works.
Yes, my friends, it’s the The Lester Dent [...]

Rest In Peace, Shawn

I have been out of touch so long with the blogosphere that the sad passing of Shawn, who used to write the Korea Life Blog way back when, until he moved to China and wrote the China Life Blog, did not reach my attention.
I didn’t know Shawn beyond a very brief few moments in [...]

The Accursed Italians (Not All Of Them)

The only ones who are accursed are the ones who share files of English-language movies, dubbed in Italian, and don’t note the fact anywhere so you only find out the damned file is dubbed in Italian until after you’ve downloaded it. Those ones, they’re very, very accursed.

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