Going to NY
I’m in Brooklyn from February 6 -22 to build monkeys
Neat!
Paul Abbamondi posted a list of his favorite short stories EVAR back in November and I somehow missed it. Look! I’m number 31. #31.Mary Robinette Kowal – “Cerbo en Vitra ujo” (Effing disturbing. That’s all I’ll say.) This is the first time I’ve ever been on anyone’s favorites list and I’m just delighted.
Hawaii
So. The day after I get back from New York, Rob and I will get on a plane and go to Hawaii. I can’t think of a better way to recover from building monkeys, can you? We’ll be there from February 23-March 1.
Pirate Issue: Submission Deadline Extended
Ahoy, me maties! Cap’n Adams decided that it were a good idear to give ye lot o’ scurvy dogs a wee bit more time to get yer stories in ta him. Bein’ the benevolent cap’n he is, he’s givin’ ye till February 28th ta submit to Shimmer. But not a moment longer, or he’ll keel-haul
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Serendib
Just to keep you up to date, here’s the website for, Serendib, the show I’ll be building monkeys for. The Ensemble Studio Theatre First Light Mainstage Production Power. Sex. Status. And that’s just the monkeys David Zellnik’s SERENDIB is a witty comedy about a group of scientists trying to save the world’s most important monkey
Two recommendations
I spent more time packing today and got a corner of the dining room cleared. Whew. Also, finished reading The Android’s Dream, by John Scalzi, which I really enjoyed. Good clean fun, which is something to say for a book that starts with a chapter-long fart joke. Rob and I took the bus over to
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Victorian Bestsellers – Field Trip!
Ooo! Ooo! Who wants to go with me to the Morgan Library & Museum to see the exhibit on Victorian Bestsellers? Although today’s public may think of the bestseller as a relatively recent development generated by modern mass marketing, many of the literary formulas and publishing techniques of the bestseller actually date to the nineteenth
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A musical convergence
This morning Rob and I were standing in the kitchen. The classical radio station was playing the background as we waited for the opera to begin. As we were talking, I heard the announcer say, “And that was ‘The dance of the dolls’,” which immediately made my head turn to the radio, because dancing dolls
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Like bluegrass? Like rock? Enjoy both
Yep. David Lee Roth performs “Jump” with a bluegrass band. You must listen to believe. You have John Scalzi to thank for pointing this beauty out to me.
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Studio
I went into the WRW recording studio today to get caught up on some of the audio work that I owe folks. I didn’t get it all finished, so Rob and I are hoping to head back down tomorrow at some point. (Thanks, Sam!) It felt good to get back in there, and I loved
PawSense helps you catproof your computer.
This is… I’m a little baffled that someone actually made a program to catproof your computer. When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer. This can happen whether you are near the computer or have suddenly been called away from
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Cracked filling
Look! My dentist managed to get the photo to me of my cracked filling. See that dark line across the filling in the lower tooth? That’s pretty obvious, even to a layman, huh? The tooth is now white and looks unblemished because we went with the composite for better bonding with what little original tooth
The Dentist
I was hoping that they would email me photos of my experience on Monday, but alas. [Edited to add: they emailed one and I posted the tooth photo here.] So, Monday I went to my snow-delayed dental appointment. I mentioned to the hygenist that a tooth on the front right of my mouth was giving
Pythagorus Switch
-e- turned me on to this wacky Japanese math and science show. I know! Me, thinking a math show is fun.