[tech] Email housekeeping note
Over the past two weeks, my spam load has gone up approximately 1000%. As a result, I’ve had to tighten my mail filters considerably simply in order to preserve my own sanity. Where I used to scan my spam trap for legitimate messages from people I don’t normally correspond with, I simply cannot do so any more.
This means that if you are not a regular correspondent of mine and try to reach me by email, there’s a fairly good chance I won’t be aware of it. Please try alternate channels such as Facebook, blog comments or messages via mutual friends.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Tags: Personal, Tech
Posted: 9:32 am Sun October 31 2010 | Comments(2) |
[personal] Happy Hallobirthdayween
Today is the day that ghosts walk and skeletons dance and pumpkins glare with fiery glance,
But most of all today is the day when the Witch came to stay in this world of wicked chance.
Happy Birthday to my sweet calendula_witch, and Happy Halloween to everyone.
Tags: Calendula, Funny, Personal
Posted: 7:33 am Sun October 31 2010 | Comments(2) |
[photos] Your Sunday moment of zen
Your Sunday moment of zen.
Autumn spider. © 2007, 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: nature, Photos, zen
Posted: 7:28 am Sun October 31 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad spooks!
Where good ideas come from — Interesting headline, interesting article, but the piece does not cover what we writers might have hoped it does.
Happy Halloween from Criggo — Yeah, this scared the shit out of me.
Flying Monsters — x planes with more airplane art.
New York Times Explains Psychics for Dummies — Hah. (Thanks to lt260.)
Devil’s Night on the Campaign Trail — Scrivener’s Error with some timely and trenchant observations on voting and the electorial process.
?otD: Lon or Lon Jr.?
10/31/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.5 hours (medical follies but some collaborative WRPA with calendula_witch)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.75 hours (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: I Wonder by Marian Bantjes
Tags: Culture, Funny, Links, Movies, Personal, Photos, Politics, Process, Tech, Writing
Posted: 7:24 am Sun October 31 2010 | Comments(0) |
[calendula] The season of the witch
Tomorrow is calendula_witch’s birthday. As my best beloved observes, a birthday is a halo of days. Wish her well this weekend.
And no, I won’t tell you how many spankings she’ll get.
Tags: Calendula, Personal
Posted: 7:24 am Sat October 30 2010 | Comments(1) |
[photos] Your Saturday moment of zen
Your Saturday moment of zen.
Caricature of me in steampunk mode by San Francisco artist Jon Casey. Reproduced with permission.
Tags: Art, Personal, Photos, steampunk, zen
Posted: 7:20 am Sat October 30 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad seeks out the Chaplin
You Can’t Tell Authors You Love Them — jimvanpelt on, well, me. (Among other things.) He’s just read my book The Specific Gravity of Grief.
Do pink ribbon campaigns against breast cancer do any good? — I will also observe that while colo-rectal cancer (my own particular affliction) kills more people every year than breast cancer, I’ve never seen a brown ribbon campaign.
Degrees of Consent — Bad Science on the sociology of pharmacuetical testing.
Sources: Fox Management Slanting D.C. Bureau’s News Coverage — But…they’re Fair and Balanced! Also, this just in, water is wet. Amazing!
Bill O’Reilly e-mail bombs Mike Thompson — What it all boils down to for people who behave like this isn’t defending the concept of free speech, rather defending free speech that agrees with their partisan point of view. Many of them decry Williams losing his job because, in their view, he was too conservative. But then want to defund NPR and cause everyone else at the broadcasting company to lose their jobs because, in their view, NPR employees are too liberal. Once again the justly famed principled consistency and intellectual honesty of the American right triumphs.
Former O’Donnell manager doubles down on the stupid — Christine O’Donnell’s 2008 campaign manager, Jonathon Moseley, is doubling down on her ignorance and making himself a buffoon by offering a $1000 reward to anyone who can find the phrase “separation of church and state” in the constitution. Okay Jonathon, I’ll give you a million dollars if you can find the phrases “separation of powers” or “checks and balances” anywhere in the constitution.
?otD: Charlie or Oona?
10/30/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (medical follies)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.25 hours (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: I Wonder by Marian Bantjes
Tags: Books, Cancer, Grief, health, healthcare, Links, media, Personal, Politics, Publishing, Religion
Posted: 7:17 am Sat October 30 2010 | Comments(0) |
[personal] When Josie comes home
tillyjane, a/k/a my mom, spent her first full day post-operative/post-discharge at my house yesterday. I took off work to care for her, though I’m back at the Day Jobbe a bit later today as her sisters have arrived to help for a week or two. My friend T— came by for several hours to offer desperately needed advice and assistance, as home healthcare is her profession. And my friend F— brought by a lasagna yesterday afternoon, which was a most welcome and simple-for-us dinner treat.
So far, things are going well. She remains cheerful and (relatively) energetic. We’ve identified three success criteria that need to be met before my mom can go back to her own house. Two are keyed to her own healing progress, and the third is a small infrastructure problem at the house which I have someone coming in this morning to bid out a solution on.
In other news, something very fun and interesting has happened in my writing life that I’ll report on when it’s public info. For now, just say I am a happy camper at a time when a little positive reinforcement is going a rather long way.
In other other news, The Child’s Halloween dance is tonight, and seventh-grade drama seems to be in full cry around her. She’s doing just fine. For her parents, it’s kind of like having a front row seat at the soaps, though. And being Halloween, this is calendula_witch’s birthday weekend. Appropriate festivities are in store.
Tags: Calendula, Child, Cool, family, Food, Personal, work, Writing
Posted: 5:40 am Fri October 29 2010 | Comments(2) |
[photos] Your Friday moment of zen
Your Friday moment of zen.
Art by the Child (then age 9). © 2006, 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Art, Child, Photos, zen
Posted: 5:30 am Fri October 29 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad polishes that faint sheen
The greatest science-fiction story ever written — My friend Eric James Stone in Nature. Very much worth a couple of minutes of your time.
Meat: Grab a Fistful Today — Classic advertising from Vintagraph. Work-safe. Really. I swear.
Star Trails and the Captain’s Ghost — APOD gets all Halloween on us.
Zombie — WW II bomber nose art.
In Icy Tip of Afghanistan, War Seems Remote — Interesting. I would love to visit here. (Thanks to Dad.)
Warrior Nation — In modern, American, the old men sending young men off to die have little experience of war. Of course, this is the country where a successful draft dodger manged to tar a decorated war hero as a coward in a recent election, so why would that be surprising? (Via Scrivener’s Error.)
American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR — Yep. Definitely grassroots here.
Republican Victory, Conservative Loss — I had assumed that the near-total, staggering failure of the Bush administration and movement conservative complicity in that failure would force significant changes. Conservative commentator Daniel Larison on the GOP’s stakes in the forthcoming election.
?otD: Charlie or Martin?
10/29/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (medical follies)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.25 hours (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 3/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently reading: I Wonder by Marian Bantjes
Tags: Cool, Culture, Funny, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, stories
Posted: 5:27 am Fri October 29 2010 | Comments(0) |
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