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After choosing to avoid direct exposure to RaceFail2009, I enjoyed this summary, by Mary Ann Mohanraj, of some of the key points that have bubbled upMuch of this sounds rather familiar to me, and I recognize that this is directly due to some of y'all. I've been quietly reading your writing over the last year or three on, for example, what "white ( Read more... )

Hee hee, I got a nod in the body of a Making Light post today.

It's worth a handful of fannish XPs. I don't collect those every day.

Man, nothing was bumming me out so much yesterday as learning that Randall "xkcd" Munroe publicly switched his (non-Lisp) programming allegiance from Perl to Python. I read that cartoon when it was new, but I didn't bother rolling over the alt text (I seldom do) until radtea made reference to it yesterday. Munroe drew the cartoon just a few months after ( Read more... )

Because I felt like it: my BSG Miis, which I designed last spring.


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Other things I forgot in my description of last weekend:

Saturday attended that art salon in Union Square, which featured paintings and prints by cthulhia (including her celebrated Surly Pink Bunny Tarot), poetry by Mary and recorder music performed by Carolyn. The funny thing was that I knew all of them were up to something but I didn't quite realize ( Read more... )

Went to a William Gibson reading and signing of his new novel Spook Country at the Brattle yesterday. I often attend readings at SF cons, but it's been a long time since I stood in line for a signing, since I usually don't go for that sort of thing. But what the heck. I bought a book and thanked him for his work, and he thanked me for thanking him ( Read more... )

I had an especially fun game night at rikchik-n-Mary's last Tuesday, but I accidentally messed up magid's awesome hand at Gang of Four by not making an obvious move when I shoulda (I was enchanted watching people play Toppo in the other room and absentmindedly passed my turn), and allowing queue to go out a round or five earlier than he really shoulda, and sticking ( Read more... )

I have started reading Deathly Hallows, after cthulhia read the same copy in less than 24 hours. It is the third thing down in a stack of SF I am in the middle of reading (within PKD's Eye in the Sky, given to me by Ricky, itself within Dogland, an American magical-realism story that R. Cory was breathless about on Boing Boing a couple weeks ago). So far I ( Read more... )