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A move
Events have conspired to render this a bit less organized and a lot more rushed than I meant, but I'm moving my blogging over to a wordpress blog. I'm going to still following everything I've been following over here (mostly through google-reader feeds) and I've moved the archives from the last four or so years over there ( Read more... ) -
An observation
I have really got to stop being pleased when I abruptly change jobs.
Or, perhaps more accurately, I need to stop having jobs where it's pleasing to abruptly change them. -
The 100,000 Kingdoms
I just finished N. K. Jeminson's 100,000 Kingdoms. I've been looking forward to reading this for a while - it's description sounds like a book written for me. Having read it, I am now a little concerned about the possibility that I might someday meet N.K. Jeminson. (I actually could, we're on at least one privateish mailing list together) The ( Read more... ) -
More Egypt
I really adore it when somebody else says what I'm thinking, except better. Also, China Mieville kicks ass. -
Google
I feel like lately, when I've been trying to search for recommendations, Google just tries to sell me things. Instead of taking me to places where people are talking about the subject or thing or whathaveyou, I wind up with Amazon product pages, or lists of retailers who sell varieties of the thing. My search methods haven't changed - I'm still ( Read more... ) -
Cleveland Gossip
Despite it being Valentine's day, I managed to get reservations at a tasty restaurant for dinner. The table next to me had a pair of middle aged ladies. Like me, they were in full white-collar professional dress - pumps, diamond stud earrings, makeup requiring more than five minutes to apply along with the business jacket and button down blouse ( Read more... ) -
Julian Comstock
I finished Julian Comstock last week. I was really looking forward to it, both because it was highly lauded last year, and because I utterly adored Spin. I have an incredible weakness for stories that are slow and simple, building up to a climax that is astonishing, wonderful and a bit surreal. Howl's Moving Castle the movie is an easy example ( Read more... ) -
Egypt
My biggest reaction to the whole thing is to be various degrees of uncomfortable with how much of the coverage involves questioning whether the protesters should be doing what they're doing, because a regime change might be bad for us. This could be madness on my part, but I don't really thing the Egyptians have any obligation to protect US ( Read more... ) -
State of the Union
Everything else aside (and most of my bitching would be about what wasn't there) there's one thing I think everybody ought to remember about this speech. The first line to get a standing ovation, the very first moment the audience was moved to get out of those cushy chairs, was about the kid who won the science fair ( Read more... ) -
Problem solving when money is involved
I've had it hammered home to me over the last year, particularly in October, that not everybody made it out of their childhood with a stick up their ass about making optimized decisions and squeezing the bleeding life out of every last penny. This is strange to me, but since many of the people who caused the hammering seemed just as confused about ( Read more... )