I like that I manage to fail online interaction, too ( Read more... )

It is indeed fortuitous when the day you choose to buy an iced coffee, the nice woman behind the Starbucks counter offers you some kind of fancy new kind for free. I don't remember what it was, but it is quite tasty ( Read more... )

Some of my poetry classmates and I are talking about setting up a literary magazine. The guy who's organizing it is very ambitious, and I'm a bit jaded about these things, but it's very exciting to be involved in. (It's us plus the wife-or-fiance-I-can't-remember of one of them). It looks like I'm going to be taking over fiction and something ( Read more... )

Yahoo Inc. said it is planning to shut down several "underperforming" and "non-core" Web properties, including the venerable search site AltaVista, as it continues a years-long turnaround effort.

Sites that could be affected by the moves include Delicious, a so-called social bookmarking service, search site AlltheWeb, and online news aggregator ( Read more... )

I think not sleeping is doing a disservice to my mental state.

But sitting here listening to Leslie Fish and writing porn about my own characters anyway ( Read more... )

We had a conversation in poetry about translating Tennyson into txtspk, and the idea not leaving my head, I composed this on the spot.

Ulisez
by Alfrd LOL Tenyson

it lil profits tht n idl king
bi ths stil <3h amung ths barrn crgs ( Read more... )

I was over at my parents' neighbors' dropping off something, and ran into the daughter of a friend of theirs, who I'd seen a bit when I was younger, but hadn't in a few years ( Read more... )

I was writing... well, not full-on sex, but racy stuff for two of my newer characters, as a way to explore their relationship - because it's basically predicated on the sex, and it's mostly about power dynamics, and I love screwing with power dynamics through sex. And halfway through I ended up realizing that just because of the inherent male/ ( Read more... )

So, I am writing something that involves a genderqueer character. And I have some problems I hope y'all can solve.

( Cut for politics and genitalia. )

Dear IRL friend ( Read more... )