I was watching the Avengers tonight with Rob and loving it as always. Mrs. Peel is the embodiment of classy crime fighting. In this particular episode, Death at Bargain Prices, she and Mr. Steed are investigating a murder in a department store, so she goes undercover in the toy department. Notice the toy in her […]
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This week’s Escape Pod episode is my story “Chrysalis” which came out in Aoife’s Kiss. Cunning Minx gives it an evocative reading. People ask me if I ever get involved with the subjects of my documentaries. I have a difficult time imagining that they would ask my male colleagues the same question, but they seem
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19:45 I’m fluffing pine branches. # 20:34 I’m putting the black pentagons on a soccer ball with tape because I can’t find a classic one ANYWHERE in NYC. # 21:01 I just had to break the lamb’s neck. Thank heavens it wasn’t finished yet. #
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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.
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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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