So the Hugo results are in and Worldcon has firmly rejected slate voting. Congratulations to all the winners. I happened to wake up early this morning and caught the livestream of the event from about when Connie Willis was on stage. It was awkward and uncomfortable each time no award was announced. This wasn't a good result. It was merely the ( Read more... )

TL;DR version - Animal Farm with the Holy Spirit instead of Communists ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make. I did not nominate any works for the Hugo this year. While I can understand the nomination issue they were trying to fix by extending nomination rights, I'm not very keen on the change - I like to think the nominating and voting on the Hugos belong to that year's Worldcon members. [1 ( Read more... )

So I had a coworker tell me that she wanted me to come to her desk to explain something to me. This was so important that she interrupted a meeting I was having. So I went to her desk and she spent five minutes explaining to me all the things I explained to her yesterday before she went on a site visit. I guess she thought I had forgotten. (Like ( Read more... )

You'd hope that the week after you sent a "Look, team, if you get an email that asks me to do something, you need to send it to me before I will actually do something. If you sit on it for five weeks while the Architect gets irate nothing will happen" people would tell me stuff ( Read more... )

So, am I the only one who ever thinks that the Moff probably saw that gigantic creepy Mr. Darcy statue and though "Yeah, I'll have one like that, only with my face on it"? Never mind, on to the spoilers below ( Read more... )

First he emailed demanding that we send him our analysis for special system Y on Project X and also the contact information for A and B. You see, he wanted to write a paper about it ( Read more... )

Dear Coworker,

Thank you for adding X and Y to my drawings. If you had taken the full minute it would have taken to look at both my drawing sheets, you would have seen that X and Y already exist on sheet 2.

I can see why you are a director.

Nolove,

Me

At base, we recognize that a commitment to feminism means a commitment to social justice of all sorts--we might not be able to focus equally on every issue, but still we cannot pick and choose which people deserve justice and which issues we are more comfortable with. We are called to be true to our principles, even (and especially) when they are ( Read more... )

Warbound by Larry Correia is a book in the "rag-tag band of heroes go on a noble suicide mission to blow up some big important thing" genre. The Dirty Dozen. Lord of the Rings. We know this story and we know what to expect from it ( Read more... )