Up to this week Cleveland has not used the new body scanners regularly. I've nervously spotted an occasional random passenger sent through but for the must part the scanners just sat there, menacing but roped off. Until just now ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. I'm just about twenty years late to the party here, but the part where I missed just about everything published between 1985 and 2004 is a known bug, patch in works. I'm mentioning my tardy party attendance because I know I'm not the only one to have missed these two ( Read more... )

Reading through comments I got on a draft of a thing I run across one that goes roughly like this: "You got the words backwards. The sentence as is doesn't make sense unless the character is a lesbian ( Read more... )

So far, there's been no disaster. I think this is because I've don't just about everything possible to pretend it isn't happening short of being blatantly rude to the people who care. For posterity, and to remind me later when the inevitable horror strikes, here are the good things that happened this Christmas ( Read more... )

See, I'm not the only one who finds them interesting as photograph subjects.

- I have already broken a year long streak of naturally not sleeping more than nine hours, by sleeping for 14 last Friday ( Read more... )

I liked today's story on daily science fiction. (No link, sorry. Way too hard to do that on my phone. Go look it up yourself.) I find a lot of the flash they publish fairly mediocre and today's was not. It was in fact good enough to get me thinking about the nature of flash fiction as a story telling medium and what the pieces I really like have ( Read more... )

Am in Cleveland. Am sick and inclined to whine about everything, but not so sick that I can't realize how very unjustified that is. I timed my morning perfectly, walking straight from the taxi at the airport, through security with no wait, and directly onto my plane. Had the perfect amount of time at my connecting airport to eat breakfast and ( Read more... )

Anybody looking for a good article about the Mono Lake bacteria that covers the science well without getting hyper academic? I've got one for you right here.

My shiny new contract starts Monday and it occurred to me that since the software I'll be working on doesn't support a Linux-based working environment, I ought to resurrect my Windows partition on Ifrit. And hey, there was a new release of Ubuntu in October and I should get around to upgrading while I'm at it. So I figured I'd spend a couple ( Read more... )