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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We have landed in NYC. The peanuts the airline served us expired in November 2008, which I guess is one of their cost saving techniques. This was our first time having to pay for a checked bag and it has made us both a little cranky. But besides that this has been an uneventful transit
We made it with no problems to Cincinatti. There’s lousy wifi and cell service in Concourse B, but otherwise it’s a decent airport. Rob is in search of coffee now.
We’re at the Chattanooga airport, waiting for our flight through Cincinatti to NYC. I’m sad to be leaving my family, but also looking forward to the comparatively slower pace of New York. We had a lot of family to see in a very short amount of time.
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My AMC column on Fantasy Fashion in 2008 went live this morning, but I was busy hanging out with my mom and my niece in pursuit of fashion. Granted, it was in one of Dante’s unnamed concentric circles of hell — the mall the day after Christmas — so these fashions from Fantasy films might
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My six year old niece heard us talking about a recipe and asked what tofu was. Rob started to explain, including the phrase, “They add calcium carbonate to it.” I went, “Um, you might…” He caught himself and said, “It looks like white jello.” That was all she really wanted to know.