My new column is up at AMC on real world locations for fantasy. Location, location, location. That’s the one piece of advice every real estate agent will give you when talking about where to live or start a business. It’s also an important component in fantasy movies set in the real world. As we’ve discussed […]
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To begin, I need to take the rods of the taxidermy lamb form that I’ve ordered. These are intended to make it easy to mount the lamb on a board, but I won’t be doing anything like that. It will be laying in the back seat of a car, partially in a bag. Next, I
10:33 Excellent. Dropped off the compost and picked up the RC car for the lamb bag. The day is off to a good start. # 11:04 I just found twenty euros on the ground. Keen. # 11:42 Lamb skin acquired. It is a beautiful thing # 21:19 The steel rods in the lamb’s legs are
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My friend Doselle Young just sent me a link to this amazing poster from Cool Stuff Toys and Video. Be afraid. Fear the wrath of the Puppet People!
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I find this utterly charming. Chef Julian is five years old and has his own cooking show. I totally want to try making these cookies, or heck any of his recipes. via Boing Boing.
Big Kitchen With Food: a five-year-old’s cooking show – Boing Boing Read More »
In a future world where the weather is controlled, vineyard owner Bharat Mundari is unable to pay his weather bill after spending too much on his daughter’s wedding. The grapes are suffering in the resulting drought, and he is afraid to tell his wife about the trouble they are in; she knows, however, that he
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Today was one of those days where I got a lot done but nothing that was actually on the to-do list. For instance, I needed disappearing ink, but the magic store was out. But, they were close to another store, where I was able to find the tree I needed for a different show. The
Antiticaption, the 2009 Hugos held in Montreal, has opened the doors for Hugo nominations today, so I thought I’d mention which of my stories came out in 2008. [bfentry id=15 full] (“Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in both Rich Horton’s Science Fiction Best of the Year and Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science-Fiction) [bfentry
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And today, ladies and gentlemen, I learned that not all to-go cartons are microwave safe. The container on the left, containing my lunch, and the container on the right began life as the same size. One minute and thirty seconds later, I had a shrinky-dink.
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Edited to add: I opted for none of these and went with the Lenovo x61 tablet that Joe Iriarte recommended. When I looked at it, I could trick it out to have everything I wanted plus it was 25% off an already existing sale price. It gave me enough room to also get a monitor
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And this is part of why I love Iceland. Via Boing Boing.
Vader joins the Lutheran Church of Iceland – Boing Boing Read More »
After all of the problems with my computer, I waited for two days to make sure it was stable before I started writing on it. It felt so good to be back on a familiar keyboard and with a full size screen, so I got some good words in. And then my computer crashed again.
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With all the computer woes on Friday, I forgot to let you know that my new column is up at AMC. Welcome to the New Year! Around this time, people are probably going to start asking you, “What’s your resolution?” Personally, I always have trouble coming up with a good one, and by that, I
AMC – Frodo and Princess Buttercup Offer New Year’s Resolutions Read More »
I wrote this on December 23rd, but forgot to post it. I’ve mentioned that my family has a giant Christmas Eve dinner every year with cousins and multiple generations getting together. This year is the 52nd annual dinner and we’ve got 31 people attending. One of the things that I loved when my grandmother was
The party favor for Christmas 2008 Read More »
You might recall that we’ve had a moose head in our apartment since last June. While it makes for amusing conversation, the thing took up massive amounts of space in our bedroom. We wrapped the antlers in foam because of the number of times I stumbled into it getting out of bed at night. It
The moose head is gone! Read More »