I think I might have forgotten to mention I sold a story to Lightspeed. Oops. When it happened, I was at the Real Life equivalent of Livejournal, the Rainforest Writers Retreat, and was able to jump up and down with stupid glee and tell a huge percentage of my friends right there. I was also thinking I should wait to announce it until I had my ( Read more... )

Norwescon was a blast. The only down spots were
A) Forgetting to buy Mark Henry's Battle of the Network Zombies.B) Missing folks who couldn't make it. and ( Read more... )

It's times like this that I wish I had a really nice camera, because the shot of Saturn on the eastern horizon with a spectacular skyline of thunderheads would be magnificent. When I go outside right now, I can see Mercury (which I'm not certain I've seen before), Venus, Mars and Saturn, all in the same sky.
I <3 my iPod planetarium app. (I also <3 ( Read more... )

There are a few times in life where almost every single thing you could possibly want happens, and sometimes, it happens for several days in a row. I've got support and a backup plan for my worries back home, so I can safely let myself relax here. I've got my best friends around me--people who are like family--I've got nature* and isolation and ( Read more... )

Holy smokes! I just discovered an easy way to to make poetry ( Read more... )

In other news, I finally got around to playing with last.fm. I'm listing to a Tuvan set. There's a guy singing the blues, but with the gravelly, barely-human sound of the throat singer mixed in. Also, I learned that at some point, two of my favorite things in the world got together, presumably because they want to see what the inside of my skull ( Read more... )

okay, okay, okay ( Read more... )

For those who, like me, are looking to add some optimistic sf to their writing repertoire, here's some interesting inspiration. It's a surfing resort in Peru that offers "voluntourism" packages, where you help the local community.

From a chat we just had (I'd lent him Newton's Cannon, by J Gregory Keyes, one of my favorites:
"I just about finished your book. I looked up steampunk cyberpunk dieselpunk clockpunk. .,I didn't know anything about them. "

Here's the few decent pictures I got from q13_exe's wedding. My camera is clearly not designed for indoor usage.
The wedding was held at the American Museum of Radio and Electricity, one of Bellingham's true wonders. The event proper was held in a big room with access to the whole rest of the museum, which we had to ourselves. Electric phrenology! Leyden ( Read more... )