Paul Abbamondi just reviewed Prime Codex the anthology from Paper Golem that I have a story in. A short piece that is positively sure to get you to mutter “a-ha!” at its cruelly twisted reveal, “Rampion” by Mary Robinette Kowal is the sort of story that is most enjoyable on its first read. Read it […]
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Today we spent more time clearing the basement. I baked some more bread–the raisin bread lasted all of fifteen minutes–for sandwiches. I realized that I’m into baking right now because it’s easily controllable and, since I’m following a recipe, I don’t have to make any choices to create something. Rob pulled some wooden wine crates
Oh. I am inspired and jealous of Aparna Rao’s skills. She’s taken an Olivetti typewriter and wired it so that it sends emails. You type, it appears on a piece of paper and when you pull the paper out, it sends. In collaboration with Mathias Dalhström, 22 Pop was inspired by my mother’s own fruitless
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Well, actually, not so much in my house because it’s filled with boxes, but we did get to hang out a fair bit today before his reading. The reading was great fun; I’m pleased to say that Mr. Scalzi has a good sense of pacing and knows how to use a microphone to good affect.
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That’s right folks, I just got back from a modeling session for the NY Times. Yep. Me, in a silk nightie on a sofa with a glass of wine. And a plunger affixed to my bosom. Look for me in next week’s paper. Or rather look for the illustration that my talented friend, David Chelsea,
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I just got off the phone with Carlisle Shipping, the shipping company that lost my Audrey II puppets. They are going to initiate a claims process because they have finally admitted that they can not find the puppets. I though I’d lost hope on this a while ago, but I guess I hadn’t because I
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Due to a series of events that are likely only to be interesting if you are an SF writer, Jo Walton has declared Monday 23rd April as International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. In honour of Dr Hendrix, I am declaring Monday 23rd April International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. On this day, everyone who wants to should give
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I picked this up from Vylar Kaftan. The point is to type your answers to the questions into Google Images and then post the first picture listed in the returns. All of this should make it blatantly clear what my answer to Number 5 is, even if the visual answer were not so dead-on. 1.
There’s an article in the paper about my Dad. What’s more exciting is that they did an online segment with video, so you can actually see Dad play the musical saw. One of my favorite things is to get Dad to bring the saw out when company comes. I love the way jaws drop; people
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Oh my. Jen Stark creates amazing sculptures out of construction paper. That’s right, you remember the stuff you used in elementary school, and how it would come in that fantastic pack of rainbow colors. There are gorgeous things at her site, including a short animation done with construction paper that’s like a kaliedoscope, spinning and
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Walter’s memorial service was today. It was a simple, but moving service. It’s amazing how easy it is to laugh with these folks. One of the things we found was a newspaper article about a letter that Walter had written home to his mother during WWII. The rest of today was probably too personal to
Some of you may not know this, but I have weakness for folding furniture. I collect it, in fact. So, you know I want one these collapsible sofas.. FlexibleLove™ experimental furniture incorporates an ‘accordian-like, honeycomb’ structure to create durable furniture pieces produced from widely-available, low-cost recycled materials. FlexibleLove™ furniture pieces, such as FlexibleLove 16™, are
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I spotted this on BoingBoing. I’ve got a weakness for automaton and wind-up toys. I had read about this writing automaton so it’s fairly amazing to see it in action. In the eighteenth century, 200 years before little ASIMO started to walk or to climb stairs, the great Jaquet-Droz built an automaton which could scrawl
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I’ve just learned that my short story “Rampion” is going to appear in the anthology Prime Codex by Paper Golem Press, Lawrence Schoen and Michael Livingston, editors.
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The trouble with home improvements is that then you see all the other things that need doing that you could ignore before. The wallpaper in the guest room has always been bubbly. During the last year, while we were gone, it started actually peeling. I noticed this when I got home, but had so many
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