This morning I got to work and opened up my e-mail and got a terrific jolt. First there was a name that looked vaguely familiar, except it had a "Dr" in front of it. Then there was the subject line: "greetings from YAP". Then there was the message, and yes it was from a woman who was a childhood friend out on Yap back in the '60s. She's out on Yap ( Read more... )

Today as I walked to work fuguing on the fanzine articles I've written about a certain someone (or someone certain, as the initials might have it), I happened by a process of free association to think about a joke I made in one of them about telepathic starfishes. I remembered that the joke was derived from something in Piers Anthony's science ( Read more... )