Daily Archives: July 14, 2014
An Interesting Quandary
Posted on July 14, 2014 71 Comments
I went over to Scribd and discovered that several titles of mine were on the site without my permission, which gave me an opportunity to try out Scribd’s DMCA reporting form and process. I’m happy to say that Scribd seems to be doing a fine job on that score: The elapsed time from report to […]
My Detcon1 Schedule
Posted on July 14, 2014 18 Comments
I’ll be at the Detcon1 convention this upcoming weekend, Detcon1 being the North American Science Fiction Convention for the year (and the NASFiC being the convention that gets run in the US/Canada when the Worldcon is on a different continent). It’s in Detroit, downtown. It’s not too late to come along — it should be […]
Lock In on the August 2014 LibraryReads List
Posted on July 14, 2014 6 Comments
This is a nice way to start the week: Every month, librarians pick the 10 books they are most looking forward to, out of all the books published that month, in the Library Reads List. And for August, Lock In is one of them. That’s really cool. Note that the Library Reads List is across all genres, […]
The Lowest Difficulty Setting in Action
Posted on July 14, 2014 169 Comments
I noted a couple of years ago that Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting in the game called life (in particular the Western civilization variant of it). This annoyed many a straight white male, who didn’t see his life as being particularly “easy.” Noting that “lowest difficulty” is not the same as “easy” […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying