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Testing, testing...
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You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Actually, it was only 12.5 tons, but you still get an aching back.
Monday we dug a 60' trench for a new drain (by hand), and got the drain laid and set and covered just in time for an inch of rain on Monday afternoon and evening. Which was handy. But because the front drive/turning circle/parking area (I really need a proper name for it) was ( Read more... ) -
Google+
I'm on it. Not because I'm utterly convinced that Google are particularly wonderful, but ( Read more... ) -
Freedom!
"Freedom" has always been an important concept in American cultural and political life. The myth goes, after all, that the country was founded by a small group of people seeking freedom from religious persecution (I say that this is a myth because, even discounting the indigenous population, America was already being settled by the Spanish and ( Read more... ) -
Still busy after all these years...
OK, so, here's where we are. My job ends on Thursday. On Friday I'll go down and see about unemployment - how to go about signing on, how much I'll get, how long it lasts, etc. Obviously, in the US, this is all thoroughly new to me. In the meantime, the redecoration of the apartment nears completion - just some baseboard/skirting board (delete ( Read more... ) -
Women SF writers of the 70s meme
From james_nicoll .
Italicize the authors you've heard of before reading this list of authors, bold the ones you've read at least one work by, underline the ones of whose work you own at least one example of. (NB - for my pruposes, I have underlined where I have once owned, not necessarily where I own now).
Lynn Abbey
Eleanor Arnason
Octavia Butler
Moyra ( Read more... ) -
In which I is a prize!
A while back, I sold a story called "The Last Arrow Of Liang Xi" to Darwin's Evolutions. It's a Land of Wind and Ghosts story (i.e. it's set in the same continuity/world/milieu as Yi Qin stuff, but doesn't feature her), and I rather like it (of course I do; I wouldn't have written it otherwise).
Darwin's Evolutions went by the wayside for a while, ( Read more... ) -
Just checking in...
...to prove I still exist ( Read more... ) -
An Observation On Cultural Imperialism
The Apple iPod decides that songs prefixed by articles (i.e. titled "A ..." or "The ...") should be sorted as if the article was not present.
Songs beginning with articles in other languages, however...
*sigh*
(I noticed this as I started working through the letter E, and realised I was getting a long run of Latino music...)
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In which I is again reviewed...
..over at Locus Online, in Lois Tilton's regular round-up.
Lois's reviews tend (understandably - I'm impressed she's read all of Black Gate, I'm barely 1/3 of the way through, myself) to the brief and pithy. Money shot for her comments on "What Chains Bind Us":
A nicely complicated mystery and a bleak and hopeless vision of the afterlife. I can ( Read more... )