Blur blur. Museum tour yesterday, afternoon panels on various topics, opening ceremonies, partying. Radioactive bunnies.
This morning, thanks to some clowning around on my part at opening ceremonies, I worked out with some belly dancers for an hour instead of hitting the gym. Later I’ll be posing dishabille as an artist’s model. Plus the usual run of paneling and, erm, partying.
Y’all play nice.
Posted: 11:38 am Sat February 19 2011 | Comments(0) |
Your Saturday moment of zen.
The Palace of Fine Art, San Francisco. © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 11:35 am Sat February 19 2011 | Comments(1) |
A nice review of “Rolling Steel” by me and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
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Star Wars’ Imperial March played with a floppy disk — Um, wow. (Thanks to Dad.)
How a steam powered sawmill works — (Thanks to KF.)
Computer Wins on ‘Jeopardy!’: Trivial, It’s Not — A discussion of what Watson’s recent win means. (Thanks to my Dad.)
The ‘core pathway’ of aging — Cool stuff in the biology of senescence. (Thanks to David Goldman.)
No Argument: Thomas Keeps 5-Year Silence — A curious piece on America’s most fair-minded, non-partisan jurist, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
?otD: Got fringe?
Posted: 11:34 am Sat February 19 2011 | Comments(0) |
Drove out from Portland in the Genre car with camillealexa. We came through the Gorge on 84, then crossed over to the Washington side at Biggs (hooray for Stonehenge!), and made the trip in very good time. Once ensconced in my hotel room, I wrote 2,500 words on a one-off short fiction project, then rejoined camillealexa and davidlevine for an adequate-but-spendy Italian dinner over in Kennewick. After that, there was drinking the bar with a rotating cast of characters. Then I crashed out.
A good day zero, in other words.
This morning some writing, then the Hanford tour, then the convention day. Am I going to see you here this weekend? If not, where will you be?
Posted: 8:21 am Fri February 18 2011 | Comments(0) |
Your Friday moment of zen.
The Palace of Fine Art, San Francisco. © 2007, 2011, 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.
Posted: 8:16 am Fri February 18 2011 | Comments(0) |
Writing and Mortality — Rachel Swirsky on a topic a bit close to home for me, also the myth of compulsion.
The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle — Interesting information regarding periodicals on Kindle. (Via danjite.)
Happy Burger, Mr. President — The American presidency in hamburgers. (Thanks to garyomaha.)
Ecuadorean Villagers May Hold Secret to Longevity — This is a curious story about mutation, growth factors and cancer.
Record Melting in Greenland during 2010 — This image, made from microwave measurements, maps Greenland’s melt season in 2010, which lasted 50 days longer than average. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. Global warming, though, that’s a liberal plot that’s only supported by the data.
In Defense of Elites — Yes, I would like my political leaders to be smarter and better informed than me, thank you very much. That isn’t threatening to a rational human being, that is reassuring.
Agnotology — Culturally induced ignorance or doubt. My view is that Quiggin is right as far as right-wing politicians are concerned: for the most part they know that Obama was born here, that he isn’t a socialist,that there are no death panels, and so on, but feel compelled to pretend to be crazy as a career move. (From @RivetNZ via danjite.)
?otD: Would you Tri-Cities?
Posted: 8:15 am Fri February 18 2011 | Comments(1) |
I’m off to RadCon this afternoon. Carpooling with camillealexa, which will be nice. Supposed to go on a Hanford tour Friday morning — those have always been fascinating. Then programming begins, and a nice long weekend with a thousand of my closest friends.
I’m most of the way done with the Endurance copy edits. Next week I’ll commence working on the next chunk of Calamity of So Long a Life. I may put it off a day or three more to knock out a short story, but in any case I’ll be writing. Depending on how RadCon goes, I’ll get the copy editing done as well as that possible short project done while I’m there. I’m not holding myself to any hard expectations on that.
There’s been an interesting dissonance in reading Endurance for copy edit. I finished drafting Kalimpura not so long ago, and I keep seeing ahead, as it were. Asking myself idiotic questions such as, “Why did Green do this when she already… Oh, that’s the next book.” The dangers of multivolume projects, I suppose.
I love writing at this pace. It feels good. After the chaos and stress of the past year and more, I really hope I get to hang on to this feeling, this state of energy flow, for quite some time to come.
Posted: 6:32 am Thu February 17 2011 | Comments(1) |
Your Thursday moment of zen.
The Palace of Fine Art, San Francisco. © 2007, 2011, 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.
Posted: 6:29 am Thu February 17 2011 | Comments(0) |
Borders Refuses to Pay the Rent — Scrivener’s Error with a cogent (and depressing) post on the Borders bankruptcy. A must-read if you’re a working author or publishing industry type.
The Civil War tank? — Mmm, land monitors. (Thanks to goulo.)
Mississippi Metro Map — An interesting way of looking at the largest river in the United States.
To Talk With Aliens, Learn to Speak With Dolphins — Scientists communicate with cetaceans.
You can help improve ASR — This is actually something I deal with in the Day Jobbe.
Presidential Medal of Freedom given to former president George H.W. Bush, 14 others — Hey, let’s reward corruption and incompetence some more! Just like we did in the most recent elections! Oh, well, at least it wasn’t Bush 43. (Via danjite.)
Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war — There were lies involved in our entry to the Iraq War? Inconceivable…
The Tea Party and civil liberties — Glenn Greenwald on the reauthorization of the so-called Patriot Act. The war on civil liberties in the U.S. is a fully bipartisan endeavor, and no effective opposition is possible through fealty to either of the two parties.
Boehner the budget hawk shifts his course — A million jobs to be lost, and he says “so be it”. That’s leadership. Are you proud of your Republican party?
Out of Control in the House — “A lot of us freshmen don’t have a whole lot of knowledge about how Washington, D.C., is operated,” Representative Kristi Noem, a Republican of South Dakota, told the Conservative Political Action Conference last week. “And, frankly, we don’t really care.” Which is why electing you was such an excellent choice on the part of your constituents. I have never understood the political appeal of Know-Nothingism.
Why is Glenn Beck freaking out over Egypt and a caliphate? — “For the first time, you began to see a lot of really serious conservatives taking on Beck and people like that, and saying, you know, your theories are just wacky,” Brooks said. As opposed to the utterly reasonable theories of most of the Republican congressional delegation, or anyone else on FOX News? That’s either hysterically funny or frighteningly sad.
?otD: Who would you vote for if the next U.S. presidential election were today?
Posted: 6:28 am Thu February 17 2011 | Comments(0) |
Yesterday I woke up, exercised, blogged and worked the Day Jobbe as usual.
Had an interesting lunch with author Andrew Mayer, whose forthcoming steampunk trilogy from Pyr has the coolest log line I’ve heard in quite a while — “Steampunk superheroes in 1880s New York”. Watch for The Society of Steam.
Spent the later afternoon at the Fireside Writers Group knocking out two more hours of Endurance copy edits and hanging with the decorative yet functional likes of davidlevine and camillealexa.
Went to the OMSI Science Pub last night and learned all about Promiscuous DNA: The Invasion, Spread, and Impact of Mobile Genes, whilst hanging out with rekre8 and other interesting folks.
Came home and crawled into bed.
Busy life. Good life.
Posted: 6:30 am Wed February 16 2011 | Comments(0) |