Monthly Archives: June 2004

Flood Journal

See this little lake? Well, actually, it’s supposed to be the road, two fields, and my and my neighbors’ lawns. We had a really massive thunderstorm today and as a result all the water has flooded into the road and is attempting to push its way into the tiny little creek just south of my […]

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Expectations

“Democrats say the enthusiasm for defeating Bush runs much stronger and deeper than the passion for electing Kerry. The chief reason: The senator from Massachusetts, they say, has not crisply articulated what a Kerry presidency would stand for beyond undoing much of the Bush agenda.” — Doubts linger as Kerry advances, Washington Post, 6/14/04 Jumpin’ […]

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Adware Rant

There aren’t too many people in the world who I would be truly happy to see sodomized by an oil drill, but among that group are the people at Alset, whose supremely annoying spyware/adware I spent a reasonable portion of my Sunday afternoon expunging from my computer. The program did something I found to be […]

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GMail Stylin’

Thanks to the intercession of a Whatever reader who shall remain nameless so y’all don’t bug her to get you one too, I am now in possession of a GMail account. I didn’t even have to pay whatever the current going price is for a GMail swap (I understand it’s going down fast, since Google […]

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Boston in September

I just slapped down the $180 registration fee, so it’s official: I’ll be at Noreascon 4 from the 2nd through the 6th of September. For those Whatever readers who are not hardcore science fiction geeks, Noreascon 4 is this year’s official WorldCon, which is the Mother of all Science Fiction Conventions. I went to last […]

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The Punch and Kick Game

Anyone who thinks video game playing leads to sedentary children has never seen Athena play video games. She gets even more jiggy with it when you haul out the EyeToy. The game she’s playing here is Virtua Fighter 4, and of course one may reasonably question the wisdom of letting a five year old play […]

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Rejection! Again!

My poor, poor YA project. It’s been rejected again. The letter has the by now usually complementary note about my writing skills, followed by the sad conclusion that even so, it’s not for this particular editor. I have no idea when it will be that we will have exhausted all the viable avenues for publication, […]

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Reagan

I’m back and catching up on the news, which is mostly about Ronald Reagan having died. I am, perhaps not unexpectedly, curiously unmoved by his passing. It is partly due to a lack of enthusiasm concerning his presidential accomplishments, a rather cynical opinion of the concept of him being the model conservative president (i.e., a […]

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