I am probably the absolutely worst person to be introducing Lime to Aretha Franklin, since I really only know a couple of her songs, but when I got home tonight, for some reason, a little chunk of the backing vocals on “Respect” had suddenly bloomed into an earworm, and I couldn’t get it out...
Read more →Warning: this is the kind of “Writing I did today” sort of post that some people have no interest in. If you’re one of those people, skip it. Today was an incredibly productive day for me. I got big chunks of several big projects done: completed preliminary revisions on The Spike (formerly “The Broken...
Read more →I was swooping around the Net this afternoon, searching for useful recipes. Lime and I got ourselves a little oven, not a full-sized one but a bit bigger than a toaster oven — big enough to roast a chicken inside it, for example, but too small for a turkey. Anyway, I noticed something about...
Read more →My first day in Sapporo, my third day in Japan, I was lucky enough to meet up with Lal, a very cool guy who’s been out there online for years — about 6 years, as he notes, of contact on the Culture List (and I think he showed up on the Brin-L too) and...
Read more →Flurb #4, Fall/Winter 2007. (story link)
Read more →Today is very up and down. Or, rather, down and up. I woke to find my eye very red, and secreting some kind of yellow gunk. I showed Lime, who told me that pinkeye is going around. This scared me, but I went to my noon class knowing I would be going to the...
Read more →I’m one of those people who can ignore annoyances for a little while, but eventually gets fed up with them and decides to do something. And of course, for this I get headaches, most of the time. For example, the mailbox for the Foreign Professor’s residence on campus. Over the last few months, I’d...
Read more →And though WorldCon was fine — and spending time with friends there was great — I have classes sometime tomorrow so posting about it shall have to wait. Expect pictures, though none by me from the Con. I just never felt like it. But I will link to those posted by others. And I’ll...
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