I have survived my little temporary excursion into the rock-and-roll world, and I really enjoyed myself. Stories later, once I’ve cleared up the work that piled up while I was off playing roadie.
The really short version is that I had tremendous fun, but I suspect that a significant part of the reason I could enjoy [...]
I’m taking Thursday and Friday off work this week, so that I can spend three days following consummate musician Danny Michel on his mini-tour of the Maritimes.
Friday night, at midnight, I was at the Oxford Cinema (yes, the same Oxford Cinema that was recently featured in Brian Wood’s comic Demo) to catch the “sort of secret” premiere of Mirco Chen’s movie The Birth Of Serfs.
Phobos Entertainment - Features - 100 Science Fiction Books
So just how does one find stellar SF? For starters, why don’t you try out these 100 narrative works. Each one should be part of every SF reader’s—not to mention every SF writer’s—repertoire. Many of these novels are award winners, and most have inspired profound trends in [...]
OK, let’s see if we can close a whole bunch of tabs on my desktop, and maybe bring something interesting to you at the same time.
Hollywood might have some cool special effects, but Nature can really create a 60km long rift! One that threatens to carve out a new ocean. Damn that’s cool in a [...]
Today’s almost random browsing brings about this series of connections, which links the capital of Venezuela to the highest ranking American killed in World War II, to fact that the act of making a mint julep with creme de menthe can be considered an abomination.
Seeing the review of Keeping It Real pop up on Strange Horizons yesterday reminded me that I wanted to say something about the book.
Somehow I managed to avoid any notice that this book was forthcoming, despite my relatively recent interest in Robson, and was somewhat shocked to find out that it was already out [...]
Yeah, work is still killing me, so I’m phoning it in. Still, it’s a bargain at the price.
Today’s reason to be annoyed with Fortress Amerika1: U.S. Government Increasingly Blocking Entry at the Border Because of Ideology
Fifty NFB films free on the web. The whole Cat Came Back thing was giving me flashbacks to my childhood, [...]
It’s been a good week for books here at the Ranch. I’ve had lovely new books from Subterranean Press arrive Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (plus a copy of the new issue of Subterranean’s magazine today). I had a SHOCKING SURPRISE arrival from another source (more below) early in the week.
In an old photo album, amongst images of 16-year old Chris, and his various journeys around the world, there is a comic strip. It has clearly been torn out of the colour Sunday comics and pasted into the book.
For the last sixteen years or so, this has been the reigning champion in my personal list [...]
“They called me the Reverend when I entered the Church unstained”…
Man, my scanner is dusty.
You know, I would totally buy a tool that would show me information about all the RFID tokens in my “area of influence”, and allow me to block (or, perhaps more interestingly, spoof) selected ones. It would cater to both my urge to hack things, and my tinfoil hat paranoia.
You know, if more and more [...]
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are [...]
Well, since I made the changes to my anti-spam shields, I have been averaging 15-20 spams a day that get trapped by Spam Karma, which is a pretty tremendous improvement from the previous 400+ per day.
In those 4 days Bad Behaviour has blocked around 400 activities, which means everything is working like it’s supposed [...]
Well, after the great spamming of ‘06 I thought things had settled down and I could live with the 30-50 comment spam attempts that Spam Karma 2 handles for me every day. I mean, I still have to quickly scan a long list of these blocked spam every now and then to make sure that [...]
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