Monthly Archives: March 2003
Anonymous Comments
Posted on March 27, 2003
As a quick FYI — I’ve set the preferences to allow anonymous comments. I do of course prefer that people let me know who they are, but I’ll try it this way and see how it goes. As a fair warning, however, anonymous postings are fair game for deletion if they annoy me. I don’t […]
That God Moment
Posted on March 27, 2003
Athena finally got around to asking about God yesterday, and it was Krissy who fielded the question. She and Athena were talking about something else entirely when Athena asked why some people went to church. Krissy told her that people go to church to pray to God. To which Athena asked, naturally, who God was. […]
Contracts
Posted on March 26, 2003 8 Comments
Almost exactly three months after the agreement in principle, I’m looking at my contract with Tor books. The delay, incidentially, was not really due to slothfulness on the part of Tor; when I went out to New York at the tail end of January there was a contract ready, but I had a few clarifications […]
Link Notes
Posted on March 26, 2003
Long time readers of the Whatever will note that for the first time in a very long time, I’m including links on the page (links that are not part of an entry, that is). I’m intentionally keeping the number of links very low, for a couple of reasons. First, creating a list of links is […]
The New Whatever, Part II
Posted on March 26, 2003 2 Comments
Okay, here’s why I changed over to Movable Type. 1) It’s free. Although I suspect strongly I’ll be sending along some money to the people who created it, because why not. 2) My pal Bill offered to install it for me, thus allowing me to avoid (mostly) a show of my own total and irredeemable […]
The New Whatever
Posted on March 26, 2003 3 Comments
Hi there. Yes, I’ve made an executive site-editing decision to go with Movable Type. I’ll explain more in just a little while. But for now — welcome to the new digs. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly, and tell everyone you know to do the same. Update: Arrgh — as I am a complete incompetent, I’ve managed […]
Book is Here; Oscar Wrap-Up
Posted on March 26, 2003 2 Comments
First, a personal note: I got my advance copy of The Rough Guide to the Universe yesterday; you can see it modeled by my beautiful assistant just to the right of this text. Notwithstanding one minor flaw (there are a couple of places where metric units should be alongside more familiar imperial units like miles […]
Music Plug; HTML Editor Update
Posted on March 10, 2003
A couple of random notes, which may or may not be of interest to you. * My pal Joe Rybicki has a band called Johnny High Ground, and he’s written a tune that’s well likely to become the rock anthem for the “no war” crowd, called “Trigger-Happy Texan.” You can guess who it’s about. Putting […]
Mr. Nice Guy
Posted on March 7, 2003 2 Comments
There’s no pleasing some people. I spent yesterday’s Whatever slagging Dubya, and the mail I get pounds on me for a throwaway comment I make about Dubya probably being a nice man (I specifically wrote: “I don’t doubt Dubya’s a nice man and not traditionally what one describes as stupid, but his thought processes are […]
Incompetent
Posted on March 6, 2003 13 Comments
The fundamental problem with the Bush Administration is that it appears to be working from the position that being right excuses being incompetent. This presents two problems. First, when it happens that the administration is right, as it is in wanting Saddam removed at the earliest available opportunity, it blunders about being right in such […]
John Scalzi’s Biography
Posted on March 1, 2003 268 Comments
A brief introduction to me: I was born in 1969 and by 1983 it became clear to me that I had better become a writer because everything else was actual work. Fortunately, so far I’ve managed to pull this off: My first job out of college was as a film critic at the Fresno Bee […]
Publicist Guidelines
Posted on March 1, 2003
Updated 12/29/06 Interested in sending me a book, CD/DVD, video game, a press release, or any other thing in an evaluative capacity? Increasingly, I’ve found, people are. If you’re one of those people, here’s what you should know. 1. First, about this site: The Whatever is a personal blog written by John Scalzi, on which […]
Disclaimer
Posted on March 1, 2003 1 Comment
For everyone who needs one, the following disclaimer: 1. Everything here is my opinion, and mine alone. (Except for comment threads, which are other people’s opinions, and theirs alone.) 2. Occasionally, I am completely full of shit. 3. Well, all right, fine, more than occasionally. 4. On occasion I will also opine on things I […]
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