Mike and Shannon and Kate came over last night. We were talking about Bujold, unsurprisingly ( Read more... )

From my notes (wording may be imprecise or elliptical ( Read more... )

Bujold interviews Vorkosigan -- and vice versa

:O

http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-bujold-lois-more.php

Read many interesting things this morning, rather than getting up and doing anything.

So I commend these links to you, so you too can waste large amounts of time reading interesting things on the internet.

( lengthy Mindful Link Propogation )

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Moving Week, Day One

I packed up stuff this morning to take to the new apartment, since I left Santa Cruz today and won't be back until after we move in.

But I will be back in Santa Cruz in a week and a half, and most weeks thereafter. So for now, I only packed up basic essentials that I'll need in the next week, like The Pterosaurs: From Deep ( Read more... )

Walton just did a re-read of the Vorksoigan saga in publication order, with a primary focus of looking it at a series that gets better as it goes along. I haven't looked at each piece yet, I'm collectiong them here partly so i can do just that (and partly, so you can!)

Also, because the post titles themselves are a fantastic collection

3/31: ( Read more... )

Thinking about pre-modern machines this past week. Lionardo's, and Heron's. And those of kobolds and gnomes and dwarves and humans (A. gracilis, not H. sapiensNow I want to build wood machines ( Read more... )

The Essays on Geology, History, and People, which I quoted the other day on iron weapons, is really exciting. Covers such a range of history ( Read more... )

So, Bujold is in San Francisco this Saturday:

Saturday, April 26, 2008
03:00 PM
BORDERLANDS
866 Valencia St San Francisco, CA 94110

My first thought is, "we just saw her, I don't think I need to make it up to SF again already."

My second thought is, "we've got an enthusiastic new convert, so maybe we should take miatauro up there." And, in general, if ( Read more... )