Once Again in Transit

We’re flying in about 20 minutes. This time I’m posting from the posh, lovely, important-people lounge. Nice.
I wanna coffee, so that’s it for now.

Spill it…

Lex tagged anyone who feels like it, so here we go. Five things you may not know about me:

I used Ubuntu Linux because I’m a cheap bastard. Okay, also because it basically fulfills my needs, and also excludes the possibility of gaming, which is good for me. But basically, when I bought my laptop, I [...]

Accelerando, by Charles Stross

Dear Mr. Stross,
You are a godlike being, though the ending left me a little disappointed. However, you are still a freaking godlike being.
That is all.
Sincerely,
Mr. Gord

Almost All Set

I’ve got to finish backing up the files on my hard disk, which is about two DVD-burns away, and chuck some MP3s onto my player — I listened to a lot of what I had on it during my China trip — and reinstall my laptop to run dual-boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu — [...]

Max Headroom Pirate Hijack?

Maybe the weirdest pirate broadcast you never heard of… or at least, that I’d never heard of.

Sometimes You Gotta Push To Get People To Do Their Jobs

The travel agent booking our flight, for example.
She claimed that it would be impossible to confirm our return ticket direct from Vancouver to Incheon. I suggested we fly via Tokyo, and she insisted that, no, this was simply not possible. Only one stop in Tokyo would be possible, she said, and that was the [...]

One-Shot Workshops

I won’t be able to make any of these, unfortunately, but you should think about them, if you’re writing SF:

Leslie Howle from Clarion West has coordinated a series of one-day writing workshops with Richard Hugo House in Seattle this spring. There are five scheduled:
Paul Park on January 28th - Fantastic Places - Making the Unreal [...]

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