A good day. Sunny and the high was (and still is) 80˚F.

This morning, I wrote 1,333 words and finished "Two Monsters Walk Into a Bar." It will appear in Sirenia Digest No. 183 (May, 2021). Over the next two days, I hope to get a vignette written for the long overdue SD No. 174 (July 2020) and send both issues out to subscribers simultaneously ( Read more... )

First, congratulations to sovay and derspatchel on the occasion of the announcement of their engagement. Very, very wonderful news.

Also, I've been invited to be in Istanbul this November. There will be details, later.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (according to the official release date). And it has been a ( Read more... )

Some days, I almost feel there is no wonder left to be found. Others, I trip over it at every turn. Fortunately, today was a day of the latter sort. To wit:

Titan Has Liquid Lakes, Scientists Report in Nature. My thanks to corucia for the PDF of the full Nature article. And there's a photo from the JPL (behind the cut), a most amazing photograph, indeed ( Read more... )

Someone at Locus was kind enough to send me a copy of Vol. 57, No. 4, the issue with the full-page ad for Alabaster.

It's so warm that I'm working with my office window open again. The air smells like fallen leaves.

The new issue of National Geographic (December) has a couple of superb articles, one on Cassini's photos of Saturn and its moons and ( Read more... )

Well, 133 votes are in from yesterday's poll, and I'm happy to announce that the winner of Least Favorite Food Network Personality is the freakishly perky Rachael Ray. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving soul. Except maybe that simpering idiot Jim O'Connor, and he didn't get a single vote. I suspect it was a matter of name recognition. ( Read more... )

This is one of those things. The things I live for. The things that make me glad to be around, if only to have seen them:

Huge 'hurricane' rages on SaturnMeasuring 5,000 miles (8,000km) across, the storm is the first hurricane ever detected on a planet other than Earth ( Read more... )

Late, late, late, and I need to be in bed. But I was going to mention my surprise at finding myself disappointed that the oleaginous Malan Breton was given the boot on Project Runway last night. I loathe the man, but this third season is shaping up to be notable only in its almost complete absence of personality. What a painfully dull lot. In that ( Read more... )

Just an assortment of cool stuff I wanted to mention before I crawl away to bed. First, the discovery of what is apparently a new species (and perhaps genus) of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Little Snowy Mountains of Montana, a hundred miles north of Billings, brought to my attention by sclerotic_rings. Just about any ( Read more... )