I posted a new story on Critical Futures today. It’s another one from ( Read more... )

knew I said that I’d post coda things now that I’m going to bi-weekly essays, and today would be the first day of the new order and I’ve failed. Alas. Today was spent going glaring at my outline and waiting in doctor’s waiting rooms. I did read a really great article from Kristine Kathryn Rusch about recessions ( Read more... )

After a long time toiling with the ThinkPad that I got (as my primary laptop) a few months back. I decided to rearrange my laptop usage. Not that the ThinkPad is a bad machine, but I felt bad because my MacBook was langishing, and I very much missed having a machine with a usable battery life. While I thought about trading the macbook for a PC ( Read more... )

Dear Readers,

I’m-or my alter-ego 1-is going to be at Drupal Camp Chicago on the 24th and 25th of October, baring an unforeseen catastrophe.

So this presents several possibilities:

1. 
   You are already going to Drupal Camp Chicago and want to hang out with me or talk me into presenting something with you. To this, I say rock on.
   
2. 
   You are or will happen ( Read more... )

Hey folks,

Just a quick note. I’m going to take a two day break from posting stories to Critical Futures at the end of this week.

The reasons for this are twofold. First and probably most importantly, I need a break. In the last three months, I’ve posted about 28,000 words of fiction (nearly all of it my own) and even though much of it has been ( Read more... )

I’m still writing, even though I’ve been in a very clear Critical Futures kick of posting lots of old material. I think I might post another one of the Trailing Edge stories soon, just to switch things up, after another Knowing Mars story. But that’s beside the point. So I’m writing this new story. It’s good fun, and there are lots of things about ( Read more... )

On Blogging about Interesting Things

Merlin Mann posted this thing on his site, 43Folders a few days ago in his ongoing series about his blog’s midlife crisis (which apparently happens after four years.) Merlin’s disgusted with the “blogging to get attention,” and the sort of digerati/problogger blogging tone that the form has taken in the last 5 ( Read more... )

(some liberties taken with this transcript)

caroline: the outright lying makes politics fun again.

tycho: No, I think I’m still bitter.

caroline: Haha, Don’t get me wrong, I’m so angry I think my brain is compressing.

tycho: sigh yeah.

caroline: But at this point I accept that half of America is backwards and nuts.

tycho: Oh, it’s more like ( Read more... )

Today was the first day that my regular blog post/essay didn’t get crossposted to my livejournal. This is one of the cool things that I can do now that I’ve redone tychoish.com. So LJ-land if you want to read about a really cool linux/open source thing click the above link.

In other news, I’ve been toying around with identi.ca which is the ( Read more... )

I generally am not a fan hand lotions as they tend to make my hands feel all greasy, and I’d prefer chapped hands to feeling oily.

I discovered Udder Cream the other day. I guess we’ve had a tub of it around for a while, but given my aforementioned aversion, I’ve not been keen on trying it. I did, and I like it, as it’s sort of “fast acting,” and ( Read more... )