Daily Archives: March 23, 2016
More Photos From the New Camera
Posted on March 23, 2016 27 Comments
When I got the new camera, I skipped the kit lens that came with it and bought two specific lenses instead: a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens (which doesn’t zoom), and a 28-300mm f/3.5 – 5.6 zoom lens (which zooms rather a lot) which comes with vibration dampening, so presumably at full zoom you won’t get […]
Reader Request Week 2016 #5: Pronouns
Posted on March 23, 2016 119 Comments
Bebe asks: My younger child, a sophomore in college, has asked me to use “they” “them” as their preferred pronouns. I live in a very liberal and gender-choice aware New England college town, and I still find this difficult to consistently comply with. Sometimes my English major brain rebels at using plurals for a single […]
Quick Tuesday Night Recap, 3/23/16
Posted on March 23, 2016 20 Comments
Because apparently now I’ve made it a thing to write something about the Tuesday night primaries on Wednesday. 1. Hey, hey, Bernie Sanders fans! You had a good night last night, with Sanders thumping Clinton in Utah and Idaho by roughly 80/20 in both states and overall winning more pledged delegates than Hillary Clinton for the first time […]
The Big Idea: Alan Smale
Posted on March 23, 2016 6 Comments
The Roman Empire in the New World? That’s the idea of Sidewise Award winner Alan Smale’s The Clash of Eagles trilogy, of which Eagle in Exile is the second book. But in imagining an alternate history, how does one give honor to actual history, and avoid the easy traps of historical fiction? Smale offers up his […]
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