I'm not doing a very good job of keeping the LJ current on this trip. Of course, it can be rightly argued that the object of this trip, and of life in general, is to experience, not to report. But I spend my life reporting, which, of course, changes the life being reported on. It works just like quantum physics. It's very hard to closely examine a ( Read more... )

Here in Providence it's a sunny summer day, mid eighties Fahrenheit, the heat index in the mid nineties. There are just enough clouds the sky is kindly, and we'd be heading south to the shore were it not for my being so far behind on work and were it not for the tourists ( Read more... )

Yeah, okay. Not my favorite holiday. Then again, I'm not a holiday person. At least not in the good ol' American holidays sense of being a "holiday person." Hallowe'en, very cool. I'm down with Hallowe'en. Wait. Are kids still saying "down with" to mean "I approve"? Anyway, I do St. Patrick's Day, because...and I love the food, though the very ( Read more... )

Even if there hasn't yet been a (I).

Today's icon was meant to be yesterday's icon, but better late than never.

My thanks to Benjamin for sending me an excerpt from Strange Horizons and Richard Larson's review of Eclipse Four (ed. by Johnathan Strahan). I think this review is my reward for surviving the coming day, even if the reward's arrived ( Read more... )