Monthly Archives: October 2009
Not a Single Thought In My Head So Far Today
Posted on October 19, 2009 87 Comments
And believe me, I’ve checked. So, uh. Yeah. What’s up with you?
Signing My Life Away, Part II: The Scribblination
Posted on October 18, 2009 15 Comments
Still signing sig sheets. Be back Monday.
Signing My Life Away
Posted on October 17, 2009 35 Comments
Today: More signing of signature sheets. The plan is to get through at least a thousand. To get through all that scribbling I’ll put on some of my favorite movies, so that I can have them in the background but they won’t distract me too much. I tried doing signing during last night’s Stargate: Universe […]
AM Out
Posted on October 16, 2009 7 Comments
Whoops. This was supposed to go out this morning, to let you know I was going to be out most of the day. Sorry. Oh, well. This mashup of Brit bands from different eras is still cool.
Always Scribble Scribble Scribble, Eh, Mr. Scalzi?
Posted on October 15, 2009 64 Comments
So, Scalzi, you say, what’s in those boxes? Well, I will tell you. They are signature sheets for The God Engines and Judge Sn Goes Golfing, and each box is filled right up to the top with sheets. The cats are added for scale. Over the next few days I will sign every single sheet […]
WordPress VIP One Year In
Posted on October 15, 2009 17 Comments
Not that anyone is keeping track of this but me, but for the last year (and five days) Whatever has been hosted by WordPress.com as part of its VIP program. And now, with one year of that service under my belt, here’s my verdict on it to date: Love it. Seriously. Since I switched over […]
Yet Another Way 2009 Is Not a Good Year
Posted on October 15, 2009 156 Comments
Athena had a hair appointment yesterday that was going to be a long one, so we swung by the library to get her a book to read, whereupon we discovered that for the forseeable future, the library is closed on Wednesdays. It’s also now closed on Saturdays (and Sundays, but it was always was closed […]
Givin’ It Up For Chewie
Posted on October 15, 2009
Today’s AMC column is all about how Chewbacca rocks. Because he does. Really, I think that’s all I should have to say to get you to click through. But in case it’s not, I also reveal the winner of last week’s “writing exercise” contest. And if you need more than that to click through, then […]
In Which Dad Goes Crazy With Photoshop and This Year’s School Picture
Posted on October 14, 2009 25 Comments
There you are. No, I don’t have a deadline. I can fiddle in Photoshop without one, you know.
Blogging and Disclosing
Posted on October 14, 2009 76 Comments
I got a fair amount of e-mail over the last week or so asking me what I thought of the Federal Trade Commission’s new guidelines regarding bloggers and their disclosures of relationships with advertisers (This is a pdf link to the guidelines, which go into effect on December 1). In the grand tradition of not […]
Giving Bloggers New Stats to Be Neurotic About
Posted on October 14, 2009 11 Comments
Technorati has recently upgraded its digs, and with it seems to have revamped the way it does its ranking system for blogs. Gone (at the moment, at least) is the listing that shows the overall ranking for blogs, except for those in the Top 100; in its place, however, are all sorts of rankings in […]
Speaking of Star Trek
Posted on October 13, 2009 41 Comments
Treksters, your latest nerdgasm has just arrived: Yes, the Internet’s own Wil Wheaton is collecting up his memories of his Trek days. To quote the blurbage: From Encounter at Farpoint to Datalore, relive the first half of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s unintentionally hilarious first season through the eyes, ears and memories of cast member […]
The Big Idea: Cherie Priest
Posted on October 13, 2009 37 Comments
I don’t think it’s any secret that I’m a big ol’ fan of Cherie Priest’s work — I blurbed one of her previous novels, you know — but even factoring in my enjoyment of her work, I have to say that Boneshaker, Priest’s latest, very simply rocks: It’s not only the steampunk adventure you’ve been […]
A Boy’s Own Genre, or Not
Posted on October 13, 2009 520 Comments
Another thing for people to please stop sending to me: a recent and fairly random blog post in a purported online magazine, the premise of which essentially boils down to: “Science Fiction is by boys and for boys and now girls are ruining it for anyone with testicles, except the gays, who are just like […]
Teching the Tech
Posted on October 13, 2009 86 Comments
Charlie Stross does a little venting over a comment of former Star Trek: The Next Generation writer (and later Battlestar Galactica producer) Ron Moore, in which Moore reveals that the writers on ST:TNG didn’t bother to actually insert any science into their fiction: He described how the writers would just insert “tech” into the scripts […]
SG:U Hulu Linkage Now Permanent
Posted on October 12, 2009 44 Comments
Look over there in the sidebar, right under the Big Idea. There’s your permanent link to the last five episodes of Stargate: Universe, courtesy of Hulu. Mind you, at the moment it’s just to the last two episodes, because only two episodes have aired. But when there are more than five, it’ll be to the […]
Reminder: Sci-Fi Writing Assignment Contest Through Wednesday
Posted on October 12, 2009 4 Comments
Just in case you have an itch to write something short and silly and some free time to do it in: A reminder to y’all that I’m running a writing contest over on my AMC column, in which you can choose from ten “assignments,” based on SF movies, to write up in the comment thread. […]
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: New Edition, Jan ’10
Posted on October 12, 2009 33 Comments
I’ve been sitting on this bit of news for a while now, but now is as good a time as any to announce it: Tor Books will be releasing a trade paperback edition of my Hugo-winning essay collection Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008, this upcoming January. This is good […]
Standard Mail Blah Blah
Posted on October 12, 2009 1 Comment
As I was away for more than a week and mostly answered only critical business e-mail, I’ll be going through mail today and tomorrow to catch up. If you sent me mail in the last week and I wanted a response and didn’t get one, if I haven’t gotten back to you by Wednesday morning […]
And Now Have All My Travels Ended
Posted on October 12, 2009 20 Comments
Viable Paradise XIII is now but a memory, but it’s a good memory: The students were smart and engaged and pretty much all of them will be capable of professional-level work in short order, if in fact they’re not there already. I won’t go too much into detail about the week, since what happens on […]
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