96,813 words; 112,000 by the manuscript pagecount.  2 chapters and the epilogue to write, and from here on in, it's wall-to-wall . . .

Wow, a whole year has gone by... without posting!?  I'm a little taken aback.  But then again, our friends list seems broken, and I'm hardly on here as it is... life moves on (as the title suggests ( Read more... )

http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/hbo-orders-fant.html

I may have to read this.

704 pages (for the first book) via the "2 pages of dense fantasy prose to 1 cinematographic minute" conversion = 302 minutes.  Divided by 55 for a no-commercials premium type show = 5.5 episodes.

So, for a 1 book = 1 full season (assume, say, 12 episodes) they'll actually ( Read more... )

I am learning PERL.  And UNIX.  What a strange, strange world.

Yesterday, I bred mutant hamsters to keep the Tss mutant colony (like a culture of rodents!) going.  It's not a lot of fun.  We picked out four wild-type females and four lucky Tss males and dropped one male each to the female's cages.  The first female was receptive, but the male just didn't get it, and I guess she got frustrated and tried to bite ( Read more... )

student (12:49:39 PM): hey
FromRlyeh (12:49:59 PM): Hey.
student (12:52:10 PM): okay so you're on my buddy list and you never get online...so i really dont know who you are!
FromRlyeh (12:52:41 PM): You're not on my buddy list, but I recognize the AIM handle from somewhere.
FromRlyeh (12:52:43 PM): I'm Dan.
student (12:52:50 PM): northeastern?
FromRlyeh ( Read more... )

I really like reading the geology articles in Science. It's not that I understand them, although they are more approachable than molecular biology articles. It's that they're really, really funny ( Read more... )

Okay. Time to do some science . . .

Do I know anyone from Oregon?

Reject0red.

I guess I'm not surprised. Actually, I'm not surprised at all . . . having read more of what Baen Books publishes, and with some insight into where they're taking the company now, my novel really was not a fit for them.

So . . . the next step, since nothing is hinging on anything right now, is to fix everything that is wrong in my ( Read more... )