[links] Link salad wakes up in a different, shorter world

[jaylake]

2013 Locus Awards Finalists - My Nebula- and Hugo-nominated novella, "The Stars Do Not Lie", is also a finalist for the Locus Awards as well. I am quite pleased

A reader reacts to Escapement - They didn't like it so much.

Ultraconserved words? Really?? - Language Log responds to the recent "ultraconserved words" story.

Sky Crane - A gorgeous

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I'm going to go with my wife today to get plants to put in the ground around our happy home. Some of them I imagine will be around longer than we will be and I take some pleasure in hoping those who come after us will enjoy them too. A neighbor down my street I enjoyed talking to for years while she was out tending her flowers recently passed away after a very short struggle with cancer, and I will miss her every time I walk by and see the beauty she left behind.

[serialbabbler]

I am going to go listen to the Masters Organ Recital of my best friend in the whole world's seventy-one year old mother. If not wonderful, it should at least be pretty nifty.