Argh -- gorgeous weather today, the most comfortable we've had here in Baltimore for a while, and I'm feeling too headachy and run-down to go take advantage of it. :-( Going to see whether I can manage a nap and feel well enough to accomplish anything this evening (dunno whether I'll get to HCB rehearsal or not ( Read more... )

I just stumbled across a blog-meme with a very short set of instructions:
Post the first paragraph of any of your works in progress.

Okay, I'll bite, though ( Read more... )

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact." -- Jean-Paul Sartre ( thanks to blueeowyn)

And a reminder: today is National Update Your Damn Profile Day, which I rather embarassingly forgot about last year and the year before. (I just updated mine last week ( Read more... )

From "COMBAT Team", by Murray Leinster (in Planets of Adventure, 2003, Baen Books, ISBN: 0-7434-7162-8; originally published as "Exploration Team," Astounding, March 1956):

"In a way," said Bordman, "you're talking about liberty ( Read more... )

"But the universe doesn't care what we can or cannot believe. It doesn't speak our language, so there's no reason it should 'make sense.'

"That's why science depends on evidence."

-- K.C. Cole, "Weird Science: Why editors must dare to be dumb", Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 2006 ( thanks to tdj for pointing it out)

"I once said to a friend that that most people seem to think ( Read more... )

"Evil is not, as some people think, a large, outside ( Read more... )

"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks - those who will write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"As myths are to humanity, so dreams are to the individual. No one ( Read more... )

The entirety of an entry by siderea, 2005-08-29:Observation: So often people get into confused discussions of "How are good and bad defined?" when really they mean "How are good and bad determined?"