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Hajimemashite
Back in Canada, for a rather different New Year's than last year. I was up all night going to an ex-pat New Year's Party hosted by my guest house company last time, watching the big Tokyo TV special with all the J-pop stars and then walking off to visit a shrine to ask for blessings (GAWD I wish those photos had turned out. There was a dude who ( Read more... ) -
AAAAAAAAH.
Today (tomorrow back on the other side of the dateline) my first professionally published short story is coming out from Daily Science Fiction!
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The story will go out first this Friday, the 14th, via e-mail to their subscriber list (if you want to get to read the story in your inbox ( Read more... ) -
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There is a particular Japanese bird. I haven't seen it, but I hear it every morning on the way to work ( Read more... ) -
At least it's not one of the nuclear holocaust ones?
Cell phone vigilante jams loud phone calls on the bus.
....Holy crap.
Holy CRAP.
Guys. It's The Murderer. This news story... it's Ray Bradbury's short story The Murderer.
"Then I got the idea of the portable diathermy machine. I rented one, took
it on the bus going home that night. There sat all the tired commuters with
their wrist radios ( Read more... ) -
Struggles of the Naturally Nocturnal
Brain: It is three am. THREE. AY. EM. We need to SLEEP, dammit ( Read more... ) -
So, um, yes! The pack of wild tanuki finally released me...
Okay, okay, so I wasn't actually adopted by a pack of tanuki. Although I was kinda adopted for a night by a roving pack of Japanese senior citizens a couple of weeks ago who bought me pocky and grape soda and made me come to karaoke with them, does that count? But yeah, apparently posting every week was excessively ambitious. Old habits die very ( Read more... ) -
Let's blow this continent-sized popsicle stand
This journal's about to see some more activity, hopefully, along with a slight shift in focus. Instead of posting some random pop culture related thing and then forgetting about it for months on end, I'm going to try to post at least every week, maybe more. Why ( Read more... ) -
We shall miss you, Diana Wynne Jones.
I found out from bookblather 's lj, and read further on the author's official website. Diana Wynne Jones died today.
When I was a kid, I used to binge read. I would find a book I liked, and then I would promptly sign out every single other book the author had ever written from the library. I would then read them back to back to back, reading in the halls ( Read more... ) -
Safe behind Pseudonyms again
PHEW. Blizzard just backed down on RealID.
Thank heavens someone at Blizzard was astute enough to look at THE INTERNET EXPLODING and figure "Hey, um, maybe we SHOULDN'T force our users to violate the first rule every child being schooled in basic Internet safety is ever taught."
Always nice to get a win. Granted, we probably didn't persuade them on ( Read more... )