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 […]
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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
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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
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For those of you following along with my computer woes, you may join me in cautious optimism. My new harddrive arrived today and I sat down to install it. Annnnnnd… the computer wouldn’t boot from the recovery disc, which is supposed to be a boot disc. Crap. So I took everything out and put it
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4 cups chopped pears 3 large red peppers 3 large green peppers 1/2 lb. chopped onions (about 1 1/2 cups or 3 medium onions) 1 cup sugar 1 1/2 tablespoon salt 1 cup vinegar Grind or grate each of the first four ingredients into a collander and let drain. Put them in a heavy sauce
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I used to think that cutting onions had no effect on me, but later I realized there was another reason I never cried. My contacts acted as a shield. No, seriously, I asked my eye doctor about it once. I always forget about it until I’m chopping onions with my glasses on and the burning
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Rob and I stay in and make sushi for New Year’s Eve instead of braving the madness. But today I had to be in midtown for a meeting and walked through Times Square en route to the subway. For you, I paused and took a picture. See that pole in more or less the top
Here’s an odd request. I need In-n-Out bags for a show I’m doing props on. I asked their corporate offices, but they said that they couldn’t help me. I’m hoping some of you might be able to. If you live near one of these burger joints and are willing to mail me some bags (I’ll
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In 2008 here are the first lines of my first blog post for each month: January – Is there a better way to start off the New Year than listening to Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, Chaucered? February – Turned in a project, which I’ll blog about with photos tomorrow. March – Last night,
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The Colossal Squid Exhibition has a fun, interactive Build a Squid page. Go on. You know you want to.
While not labled as such, the sale to Gardner Dozois was clearly day 7 of the happy things meme. Today? I have set my phone’s ringtone to be the hailing whistle on Star Trek the original series. Also, my phone has a tricorder on it now. This is true geeky happiness.
I failed to link to two of my twitfics up at Thaumatrope. There’s not any real way to do a teaser of fiction that’s only 140 characters long. So… This story from Christmas Eve is not safe for family. And the story from Christmas day is.
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I’ve been struggling with my main computer for some time. That’s part of why I got the eee pc. The Kowal Portable been crashing a lot and I was afraid to write on it because it would go down with no warning. I’d get a blue screen of death, but it always flashed past too
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I’m stunned. “Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction. You know, there were anthologies that I regularly bought before I started writing seriously. This is one of them, because the selections were always thought-provoking and that’s what I loved about SF. And to have one of my stories in
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