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I Speak
Posted on August 15, 2003
Hey, a shout-out to all my science fiction geek homeys: In addition to simply loitering at Torcon 3 (i.e., The 61st World Science Fiction Convention), I’m also going to be on two panels. Yes, I’m managed to make them think I’m an author. Ah ha ha ha ha ha! The fools. Anyway, here are the […]
Also —
Posted on August 15, 2003
I’ve been beta blogging for AOL the last couple of days. You can see it here. Be aware that the title of the blog is not permanent, nor is the URL: We’ll be switching both when it goes live. So don’t bookmark. But if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been most of the last week, […]
Mail Implosion
Posted on August 15, 2003
FYI — if you’ve sent me mail in the last day or so, I may not have received it — Eudora crashed on me, big time, and I’ve had to switch mail clients. In the process mail may have been lost. So feel free to send it again.
Teeth. Tablet. Blog. Teeth.
Posted on August 13, 2003 1 Comment
I am nothing if not efficient. I was at the dentist this morning to get not one, not two, but three cavities filled. How does this make me efficient? Well, they were all on the same tooth. “You’ve got one on the front, one on the side, and one on the back,” my dentist explained, […]
Forever September
Posted on August 10, 2003 2 Comments
So, I’ve been reading the various commentary around my announcement about being hired by AOL, and it seems generally positive, so that’s nice. But I’ve noticed that people have some some reservations about the AOL Journal concept in a larger sense; they’re worried about another “September That Never Ends.” So let’s talk about that for […]
Contrasts
Posted on August 8, 2003
So, I’m sitting here on my porch, playing with my new computer, watching an Amish horse and buggy go by. It’s just me, but there’s something resonant about that, not in the least because the guy using the new technology is sitting still, while the ones using traditional tools are on the move. Does it […]
I’m Kinda Boring at the Moment
Posted on August 8, 2003
In the comments thread of the last entry, Ed Thibideau asks: A fascinating post. But why don’t you ever write about political and social issues any more? That’s what brought me here. But Whatever is rapidly falling to the bottom of my daily surf list. Gore made a great speech yesterday. What did you think […]
Fun With Tablets!
Posted on August 8, 2003
Hey, everybody! I’m entering this with the pen of my new tablet pc! Whee! I’m like a performing monkey! Okay, enough of that. Pecking out words with your pen is fun and all, but it’s also really inefficient. I was using the little onscreen keyboard that comes with the tablet PC; I tried doing the […]
Now It Can Be Told
Posted on August 7, 2003 21 Comments
I’ve been playing coy about some big news, but now I’ve signed the contracts so I can spill. Here it is: In a couple of weeks, I start blogging for AOL. To expand: As many of you know, America Online has built a new blogging tool and area, which it is calling AOL Journals. Jeff […]
Sharon Short
Posted on August 5, 2003
I’m giving a quick shoutout and mad props to my literary homey Sharon Short, whose first novel Death of a Domestic Diva just came out. Sharon’s a fellow Dayton Daily News freelancer; she writes a weekly humor column for them (as do I, except it’s cleverly disguised as DVD reviews). Diva’s a mystery novel that […]
Note to Music Industry
Posted on August 4, 2003 1 Comment
Hey, guys: Now that the favorite type of music theivery involves downloading albums from the Internet — and indeed this sort of theft is several mega multiples of a problem than physical in-store theft — can we please, please, please lose the stupid sticky plastic strip you place across the top of every CD? I […]
Slaking My Techno Thirst
Posted on August 1, 2003
Yesterday someone asked me if the creation of the wireless network at the house meant that I had gone off and bought one of the toys I was thinking about getting in the “I Want” entry a couple of weeks ago. The answer to this, yesterday, was no: I had just decided I wanted a […]
I Partially Rock!
Posted on July 31, 2003
Y’all don’t have to call out the animal control; I got my home network up and running. Sort of. Which is to say that I’ve managed to connect two of my computers together, although the third computer, which is the one in Athena’s room, stubbornly refuses find the wireless network. I think it’s connecting to […]
Pray for Me
Posted on July 31, 2003
I am about to attempt to install a wireless network in my home. If you don’t hear from me by the end of the day, please alert the proper authorities, because it is highly likely that I have smashed every single bit of technology in my home with a hammer out of sheer, unadulterated frustration […]
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
Posted on July 31, 2003
Via Lileks, what is soon to be The Most Popular Link on the Internet. If you read the URL before you link through, trust me, it’s not what you think. I’d like to see these in a Winn-Dixie, myself.
One Way to Do It
Posted on July 28, 2003
I thought that this was an innovative way to propose marriage. See what you think.
Correction
Posted on July 28, 2003
For the last several weeks, I’ve been referring to the new cat Ghlaghghee as “he.” Turns out, upon closer inspection, that Ghlaghghee was either a female cat all along, or sometime in the course of her tenure with us experienced spontaneous gender reassignment, not unlike a clown fish. I suspect the former, although the latter, […]
Workshop Fracas
Posted on July 26, 2003
This is interesting to me: Gene Wolfe, the noted fantasy writer, was the author-in-residence at the Odyssey Fantasy Writers Workshop earlier this month. As Wolfe began his critiques, some of the members of the workshop were apparently taken aback at his style and his bluntness; after a few days of this, one of the workshop […]
Another Review of “Universe”
Posted on July 24, 2003
Another positive review of The Rough Guide to the Universe, this one from New Scientist, a British science magazine. It’s always nice when people whose job it is to know about this stuff say you’re doing a good job. Here’s the entire review, and if you don’t want to click through, allow me to excerpt: […]
Fight Music
Posted on July 24, 2003 2 Comments
It’s been awhile since I inflicted some of my music on you all, so here you go (you’ll need a Real Audio player to listen to it, if you don’t already have one on your computer). It’s very loud and and is best described as music to have a bullet-time fight by. Enjoy.
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