The end of May is traditionally the time when we Sidewise Judges have to go through and release our nominations cut of short stories and novels for the award - which means that dreadful dozen stories that you haven't gotten to that look like prime stinkers are mandatory reads - along with the other stuff that 'life its ownself' have caused to be ( Read more... )

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http://digital.udayton.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/yrbooks/id/1370/show/1289/rec/12

Every so great often, I do a search for people that I’m curious about, 99.99% of them being people from my past.  This includes my mom, whose name (Dr. Jacquelinn A Randolph VMD) shows up in this and that ( Read more... )

Liberal-Progressive leaving cable channel Current TV, which has been plagued with problems that the whole fuss with Olbermann's leaving the network brought to light (basicially, they were operating it on less than a shoestring, and oversold to Olbermann about how professional of a setup he'd be coming into, and refused to ante up to do better - ( Read more... )

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The Ascended Masters have revealed to me and me alone where I will be and what I will be doing at 5:14 AM (CST) on December 21, 2012, facing the end of the 13th cycle of the Mayan Long Count.

I will be realizing that I have to get out of bed and go the bathroom to avoid a monumental event ( Read more... )

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Ever been on a plane and groaned inwardly at the pre-flight briefing speech (or video) by the crew about how things work on the plane, etc? This one shouldn’t bother you, I think:
http://www.theflyingsocialnetwork.com/archives/5571

A skating meet is an odd collection of the senses and emotions, and a great crossection of raw human spirit. What follows are a few vignettes into what it’s like to be there.

MUSIC:

The first thing that catches me every time at a meet is the music; not much Tchaikovsky or languid Debussy here. Most of it is far livelier pop stuff, energy-laden ( Read more... )

My brains fry sometimes when people run the same plot / setting over and over again and call it Fresh! New! Alternate History when it’s Done To Freaking Death.  Like, say the American Civil War, or World War II - or in more recent times, taking sub-sub-genres (steampunk, undead stuff, dragons and fantasy stuff) and proclaiming THAT as Alternate ( Read more... )

Is it my imagination, but have hard drive prices doubled?  I was looking for a new one for Susan (her graphics take up a lot of space) - say, a 1 TB internal SATA - and the prices were around US $65 - now, they’re twice that and more! What happened?

Susan went to bed early, coming down with a cold and just exhausted physically and mentally.  I offered (while I was trying to catch up on laundry) to look after Connie after she went to bed.  Didn’t expect it to be an up-all-night affair.

Connie started really getting confused and agitated; she wanted to get up out of bed, and started saying ( ( Read more... )