A reader reacts to Kalimpura - They liked it.

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Walk The Fire: a shared-world SF anthology series - An interesting Kickstarter.

Willie Nelson's Audition Tape for "The Hobbit" - Hahahahah.

The ultimate cancer taboo: Sometimes it kills you - We keep talking about battles, warriors, miracles and hope. Meanwhile, those with metastatic cancers are ignored. That would be me.

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The cover art of my German editions of Mainspring and Escapement has been nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in the Beste Grafik category &mash; Which doesn't really have much to do with me directly, but is still pretty cool. Kudos to illustrator Max Meinzold.

Why Do We Hate Certain Words? - The curious phenomenon of word aversion.

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SMBC on the perils of editing - Hahaha.

I Am Not a Camel … but I Do Have Epilepsy - On disease, treatment and medical stigmatization. (Via David Goldman.)

Pad Thai - The odd history of a favorite dish. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Abandoned - National Geographic television on treasure hunting in abandoned properties. Some cool stuff here. (Via ( Read more... )

Look what showed up in the mail while I was out of town.


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I am pleased to be able to announce that my German publisher, Bastei Lübbe, has acquired the German language rights to Endurance, to go along with last year's acquisition of Green along with the Mainspringtrilogy. This is via my agent Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency ( Read more... )

Die Räder der Welt - Check out Mainspring's cool German cover.

Time experts debate whether to abolish the leap second

Statt Schurkenstaat nun Schurkenseite? ›SOPA‹ und ›PIPA‹ - A German article on the current American Internet kerfuffle, in which I and a number of other American authors are quoted.

Web Protests Piracy Bills, and Senators Change ( Read more... )

Another appeal to the mighty blogospheric brain, to see if anyone can shed some light on 19th century German naming conventions among sibling groups. This one from my Dad, who avidly pursues genealogy.

German naming system 19th Century

One ancestor and three of his brothers all immigrated to the US. They have all been identified in German ( Read more... )

Thank you for all the help on yesterday's mystery photo post [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. Users skh and jennawaterford each came through with the right answer, Neues Schloss Stuttgart, probably immediately prior to its restoration, as photographed by my paternal grandfather ( Read more... )

My grandfather, Colonel Dr. L.E. Lake, Sr., took this photo in Germany, or possibly elsewhere in Europe, ca. 1955-1956. We don't know where this bombed-out palace is, or anything about the place. Can anybody help identify it? The mighty LJ brain has been very helpful in previous such queries.


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