Jay Lake: Writer

[links] Link salad is as stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay

From Kerouac To Rand, ‘Harmful’ Reads For Writers — Hmmm.

Is the Book Cover Dead? — It sure doesn’t look good. Thanks, technology.

Letter from Philip K. Dick to Jeff Walker regarding “Blade Runner” — Wow. (Via danjite.)

The Missed Spanish Opportunity to Conquer China That Wasn’t — A weird little alt.hist stub that popped up in the political news.

Block That Comma! — Hahaha! Comma snark and The New Yorker. (Via my friend M—.)

Vintage movie posters for scary movies — Muahahahah!

Stonehenge you can bounce on — Mmm, inflatable trilithons. (From a mailing list I’m on.)

Evolution seen in ‘synthetic DNA’ — Wow.

New report recommends NASA rethink how it avoids contaminating other worlds

In the City, Bright is the New Black — White rooftops and urban temperatures.

Early Bloomers — [T]his year, after a record warm winter, blueberry bushes began to flower on April 1, six weeks earlier than in Thoreau’s time. Amazing, how liberals can get even the plants to cooperate in their climate change fraud. Thank God for good conservative outlets such as FOX News and Rush Limbaugh who keep those nasty, biased facts away from Real Americans.

‘Girls’ Through The Veil — Ta-Nehisi Coates on the representation of race in media. A very good read in its own right, as well as being food for thought for those of us who spend time working on writing the other.

Obama Faces Entrenched Resistance Among Some White Voters — Nope. No racism here. Not in conservative America. No sirree bob. Especially not from all those angry white conservatives who never said a damned thing about Bush’s wars, deficits or economic collapse until Obama became president and they could blame him.

Homophobia may reveal denial of own same-sex attraction, study suggests — I long ago reached the point of assuming that homophobia was a combination of religious bigotry and repressed homosexuality. That reality has been confirmed over and over and over.

Don’t Blame “Corporate Personhood” — Citizens United decimated what remained of campaign-finance reform, but the damage has been long in the making.

Tax rates are at historic lows — This is a fact. It is a true thing. You can look it up. But as with many facts these days, this fact is rejected by people who feel that facts are only factual if you “believe” in them. Thus we have one of the stranger aspects of American politics just now: Millions of citizens angry with President Obama for raising their taxes despite the fact that he actually lowered them. Welcome to conservative America, where reality takes a distant back seat to manufactured outrage and ideological convenience.

USDA to Let Industry Self-Inspect Chicken — Ah, the conservative dream of industry self-regulation springs to life again. What could possibly go wrong? Look how well it worked out for Enron, and Goldman-Sachs, and the entire mortgage industry, and the entire tobacco industry, and… (Via danjite.)

Cantor Suggests Anti-Semitism Is A Problem Within The House GOP Caucus — What, conservatives? Discriminating against someone on the basis of religion or race? Just as inconceivable as conservative discrimination by gender would be. Inconceivable, I tell you.

The Sympathy Gap — Republicans, in their own words. Disgusting. (Snurched from Slacktivist.)

GOP Senate Candidate Raese Compares No-Smoking Sign To Jewish-Star Patches — Conservatives: providing thoughtful, measured leadership on critical American issues since, um, never.

Condi Rice on veep slot: ‘Thank you, but no’ — Smart woman.

?otd: Are you sentimental, if you know what I mean?

4/20/2012
Writing time yesterday: 1.25 hours (3,200 words on Their Currents Turn Awry)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.5 (solid)
Weight: 239.6
Currently reading: Somewhere Else by Sally McLennan

Tags: Art, Books, climate, Cool, Funny, gender, Language, Links, Movies, Personal, Politics, Process, race, Religion, Science, Tech, weird

Posted: 5:24 am Fri April 20 2012 | Comments(1) |

[links] Link salad rings like a bell through the night

Mur Lafferty writes a letter to her daughter — Beautiful and tough.

Making Education Brain Science

Fantasy flying boat art — Mmm.

A Startup Puts the Internet in Your Couch Cushions

The love affair of William Francis Gibbs (Fortune, 1957) — A man and his ship.

Unanswered Questions in F.C.C.’s Google Case — This is interesting, and a little alarming.

The Science of Why They Deny Science — and Reality — He writes early on and illustrates throughout it’s not that liberals or independents are always right about science, it’s that, lately, conservatives are wrong a lot. From all outward appearances they often seem to be sincerely unaware of how wrong they are. At times they can even make a good faith effort to grasp why they’re wrong and still fail. The book also introduced something new, at least for me, called the smart idiot effect: the more educated conservatives are, the more sure they are about their false beliefs.

G.O.P. Lawmakers and Romney Face a Delicate Tango — If Mitt Romney is considering a quick pivot to the center as he heads into the general election, he will find an imposing impediment: fellow Republicans in the House. I can’t help but be amused by this. And the more the national GOP bows to pressure from their hard right, the more they drive away undecided voters, centrists, moderates, women, Latinos and pretty much anyone else with either a heart or a brain. So go, go, Republican congress!

?otd: Would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win?

4/16/2012
Writing time yesterday: n/a (cancer stress)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.0 (fitful)
Weight: 239.6
Currently reading: Somewhere Else by Sally McLennan

Tags: Art, Cool, gender, Links, Personal, Politics, Science, Tech

Posted: 5:10 am Mon April 16 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad is magically bored on a quiet street corner

The Sound of One Shoe Dropping — Scrivener’s Error on U.S. v. Apple, Inc., et al., the shiny new lawsuit alleging ebook price fixing. (Disclaimer, Macmillan, my own publisher via my Tor relationship, is a defendant in this lawsuit.)

Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits, in the Flemish Style — Hahaha. (Via willyumtx.)

I remember you — Roger Ebert on the meaning of death.

Why Scientists Are Fooling Animals With Virtual Reality — New technological developments in virtual reality allow researchers to study the neurological basis of decision making in insects, rodents, and other animals. But do roaches truly think the simulation is real, or are they just playing a video game? It’s the Matrix! (Snurched from @DavidBrin1.)

Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs — Logic gates that exploit the swarming behaviour of soldier crabs have been built and tested in Japan. The future is here, and it has claws…

Bits of the Future: First Universal Quantum Network Prototype Links 2 Separate Labs — Physicists demonstrate a scalable quantum network that ought to be adaptable for all manner of long-distance quantum communication.

‘Universal’ cancer vaccine developed — A vaccine that can train cancer patients’ own bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells has been developed by scientists. (Via shelly_rae.)

Closer to using aspirin for cancer prevention — Not that it helps me now… (Via bravado111.)

Saving Lives in a Time of Cholera — (Via tillyjane.)

Now This Is Interesting: A Climate Prediction From 1981 — Hey. Guess what. They were right. Amazing, how those facts just line up against the conservative worldview over and over again. (Snurched from Slacktivist.)

Born This Way — The new weird science of hardwired political identity. Speaking of yesterday’s post. (Via AH.)

Which Way Does Your Blog Lean? — An analysis of political discourse online. The practices of the left are more consistent with the prediction that the networked public sphere offers new pathways for discursive participation by a wider array of individuals, whereas the practices of the right suggest that a small group of elites may retain more exclusive agenda-setting authority online.

Allen West: I’ve ‘Heard’ 80 House Democrats Are Communist Party Members — Tell me again that conservatives aren’t bugfuck crazy?

Tennessee “Monkey Bill” Update — Speaking of bugfuck crazy. Ah, conservatives. Ruining education for all of America’s children, not just their own. Yet another reason I can never be a conservative. I just don’t have it in me to force such massive intellectual inconsistency and deep counterfactuals on generations of young minds.

Ann Romney takes to Twitter to defend herself — Take a public stance, deal with the public response. Just be glad you’ll never get the Hillary treatment from Your Liberal Media, Ann. As a conservative, you’re immune to that level of investigation and harassment. Nancy Reagan and both Bush first ladies proved that in spades.

Santorum stands down — Ah, Senator Frothy Mix, we hardly knew ya’.

Remembering Rick Santorum: Obama’s Secret Weapon

Re-Election Would Allow Obama to Ignore the Left More Than He Already Does — The conservative idea that somehow Obama’s “inner leftist” will be unleashed is just another one of their bizarre fixations. I’m one of those people who voted enthusiastically for Obama from the left last time around, and has been repeatedly disappointed ever since. Trust me, he’s no leftist.

?otd: Are you out of your brain on the train?

4/12/2012
Writing time yesterday: 1.5 hours (3,000 words on Their Currents Turn Awry)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.5 (solid)
Weight: 239.6
Currently reading: The Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling

Tags: Art, Cancer, climate, Cool, ebooks, education, healthcare, Links, media, nature, Personal, Politics, Publishing, Science, Tech, weird

Posted: 5:39 am Thu April 12 2012 | Comments(2) |

[links] Link salad enjoys the best soy latte that it ever had

My story “The Woman Who Shattered the Moon” will be appearing When the Villain Comes Home — Quite pleased about this.

A trailer for a 1936 version of Logan’s Run — Hahahaha.

Meat industry says ‘butt cancer’ billboard near Marlins Park hits below belt — Butt cancer, yeah. That’s what I got. (Thanks to danjite.)

The Science of Van Gogh — The Dutch artist’s sunflower paintings have attracted the attention of doctors and geneticists.

George Dyson on the Origins of the Digital Universe

Robot history: The rise of the drone — (Via a mailing list I’m on.)

Supreme Court Arguments on the ACA — A Clash of Two World Views — The New England Journal of Medicine speaks.

The Literalville paradox — Language Log is funny about Rush Limbaugh’s use of words. Underneath is a more serious point about refusing to “do nuance”, that eternal conservative fantasy that every complex issue can be boiled down to simplistic moral certitude.

Romney’s Foreign Policy Doesn’t Recognize That The World Isn’t Simply Split Into “Friends” and “Foes” — Speaking of the problem of the congenital inability of conservatives to recognize nuance.

?otd: Tell me, did you sail across the sun?

4/6/2012
Writing time yesterday: 1.75 hours (3,500 words on Their Currents Turn Awry)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.0 (interrupted)
Weight: n/a
Currently reading: The Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling

Tags: Art, Books, Cancer, Cool, Food, Funny, healthcare, Language, Links, media, Personal, Politics, Publishing, stories, Tech, Videos

Posted: 8:28 am Fri April 06 2012 | Comments(1) |

[links] Link salad’s bread and water’s going cold

Mountains of books become mountains — (Snurched from Myke Cole.)

New Google tool lets you PROBE YOURSELF — There have always been tools for- Oh, wait. Never mind. An alternate view on this.

Experimental antibody drug stalls 7 kinds of cancer, study shows

Space exploration and the culture of innovation: an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos aims to bring up Apollo 11′s sunken engines

Researcher publishes specs for real Linux-powered Star Trek tricorder — Captain, my tricorder appears to be wearing a red hat.

Satellite-jamming becoming a big problem in the Middle East and North Africa — Talk about your modern problems.

Born in the Gulag: Why a North Korean Boy Sent His Own Mother to Her Death

Parsing the Pill’s impact on women’s wage — Interesting. (Via danjite.)

We have universal healthcare — by default — Some sanity on the healthcare “debate”. It isn’t really much of a debate, of course, when one side’s talking points are mostly counterfactual.

Justices don’t understand insurance, health care, economics … — This is depressing. It’s been obvious at least since Bush v. Gore that the conservative wing of the Supreme Court is nakedly partisan at the expense of both law and justice, but now they’re not even pretending to impartiality of any sort.

How Much of the Health-Care Law Will the Justices Leave Intact? — Wednesday’s argument over how to split up the health-care law may give some of its supporters hope — but not much. Because the same conservatives who want the government to come between women and their doctors don’t want the government to come between themselves and their doctors. Or something. Intellectual consistency isn’t exactly a cardinal virtue on the American right.

The Case for Gay Acceptance in the Catholic Church — The death penalty no longer applies to people who divorce or sleep with women during their periods, as described in the Bible. So why can’t attitudes on homosexuality change as well? In two words: conservative bigotry.

?otd: Is your hair is too short and neat?

3/29/2012
Writing time yesterday: 5.5 hours (Sunspin)
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 6.25 (solid)
Weight: n/a
Currently reading: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

Tags: Art, Books, Cancer, Cool, Culture, gender, healthcare, Links, Personal, Politics, Religion, Science, sex, Tech

Posted: 4:16 am Thu March 29 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad flies away like a little bird

My story “The Speed of Time” is up in podcast and Web reprint at Escape Pod

Darth Vader In A Kilt On A Unicycle Playing Bagpipes — This video will make your brain hurt, I promise. (Thanks to Scrivener’s Error.)

How to piss off a frog — Hahahahahahah.

Examining His Own Body, Stanford Geneticist Stops Diabetes in Its Tracks (Via Emily Siskin.)

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) — (Via my aunt.)

How Not to Attract Tourists — Ah, the romance of cross-border travel. I will observe that in my experience entering the US is a more intimidating and unfriendly process than anywhere else I’ve been in my adult life, including various Communist countries.

This Explains a Lot — A trenchant LA graffito. (Via mlerules.)

The Abominable Shellfish — Why some Christians hate gays but love bacon.

What now for Republicans? — Between oppressing gays and waging war on science and pushing women back into the nineteenth century and making sure kids grow up undereducated and proudly ignorant, how’s a busy Republican to find time to get back to ruining the economy and creating new military disasters, just like our last GOP administration?

Ariz. bill could require reason for birth control — Because conservatives are so rational, and have your best interests at heart. (Speaking of pushing women back to the nineteenth century…)

The Limits of Santorum’s Politics of Resentment — Who knew there were limits to the politics of resentment? Surely not the GOP.

2012 or Never — Republicans are worried this election could be their last chance to stop history. This is fear talking. But not paranoia. (Via ilya187

?otd: Ever been part of an emergency landing?

3/17/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (trip prep)
Body movement: Airport walking to come
Hours slept: 6.0 (solid)
Weight: 238.0
Currently reading: The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

Tags: Art, Fiction, Food, Funny, gender, healthcare, Links, music, Personal, podcasts, Politics, Religion, sex, stories, Tech, Travel, Videos

Posted: 3:34 am Sat March 17 2012 | Comments(1) |

[links] Link salad has a pickup truck and the devil’s eyes

A beautiful, brainy illustration

All red meat is bad for you, new study says — A long-term study finds that eating any amount and any type increases the risk of premature death.

Before the Pacific: finding the lost islands of a Pangea-era ocean

Angry Birds in Space — And the physics thereof.

Long space missions ‘may damage eyesight’ — This makes me want to write a short story called “All the Blind Old Astronauts”.

US manned spaceflight infographic

Artifacts Show Sophistication of Ancient Nomads

When Cultural Identity Is Denied — The dangers of classification by outsiders. (Via Scrivener’s Error.)

The Reproduction of Privilege — Education and the class system.

It’s un-American to silence Limbaugh — Free speech means tolerating views that you despise. Otherwise, one day, it will be your views that someone doesn’t like. If you don’t stand up for Limbaugh’s liberty today, someone may come for yours tomorrow. Discredit him, but don’t silence him.

Did ‘Game Change’ change anyone’s mind about Sarah Palin?

Palin: The First Black President Wants to Revert to Pre-Civil War Society — In her view, the very act of acknowledging or talking about race’s role in U.S. history makes one a racist. This is bizarre, even in terms of what laughingly passes for conservative ‘thought’.

Poll: GOP Voters In Deep South Think Obama Is Muslim, Unsure On Interracial Marriage — Asked whether Obama is Christian or Muslim, some 45 percent of Alabama Republican respondents picked Muslim; 14 percent correctly identified him as Christian. Another 41 percent said they were unsure. In Mississippi, a majority of Republicans, 52 percent, identified Obama as Muslim; 12 percent said he was Christian and 36 percent were undecided. This is what happens when conservatives control the media. Their lies are perceived as truth.

The Many Misleading Claims In Mitt’s Monday Medicare Memo — A GOP candidate lying about Medicare? Unpossible! Thelma, bring me my nitro.

Doonesbury strip on Texas abortion law dropped by some US newspapers — [Governor Rick Perry's spokeswoman] Catherine Frazier, asked about the Doonesbury strip, said: “The decision to end a life is not funny. There is nothing comic about this tasteless interpretation of legislation we have passed in Texas to ensure that women have all the facts when making a life-ending decision.” No, you’ve passed legislation ensuring that women have to conform to your particular narrow religious beliefs about their sexual lives and reproductive choices.

Will Deep South primaries deep six a candidate? — Oh, come on. Mitt’s going to win this in the end. Slow, messy and damaging, but barring some truly bizarre developments, I don’t see how he cannot.

?otd: Does time mean nothing? Will it ever again?

3/13/2012
Writing time yesterday: 3.5 hours (1.5 hours on nonfiction first draft unrelated to Extremes; 2.0 hours of WRPA)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.75 (solid)
Weight: 236.8
Currently reading: Blood of Orange by Lizzy Shannon

Tags: Art, Cool, Culture, education, gender, healthcare, Links, media, Movies, Personal, Politics, race, Religion, Science, sex, Tech

Posted: 5:35 am Tue March 13 2012 | Comments(1) |

[links] Link salad heads to Springfield to hear the word of God

How To Be Creative — The image of the ‘creative type’ is a myth. Jonah Lehrer on why anyone can innovate—and why a hot shower, a cold beer or a trip to your colleague’s desk might be the key to your next big idea. I disagree with one of the premises of this article — in my fairly extensive observation of writers over the years, creativity comes far more easily to some people than it does to others. It is one of the many highly variable qualities of being a human being.

Austin, Proud of Eccentricity, Loses a Favorite — I remember this guy from when I lived there. (Via my Dad.)

A Keeper of a Vast Garden of Art in the Hills of Brazil

The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

Great Lakes ice coverage falls 71 percent over 40 years, researcher says — Amazing, the lengths liberals will go to in perpetuating the myth of climate change. Thank God we have Rush Limbaugh and the GOP to cloud those pesky facts.

Inhofe: God Says Global Warming Is A Hoax — Further evidence that conservatives are patently, absurdly crazy. This man is a respected GOP leader and major party figure.

Subject for Debate: Are Women People? — I’ve always assumed that women are fully autonomous human citizens—who vote, even!—but now I’m not so certain. Ask your friendly neighborhood conservative. They’ll confirm the answer is ‘no’.

What’s wrong with Congress? It’s not big enough

Grim Meathook Future, English style — In which we learn that English conservatives are just as blinded to facts by ideology as American conservatives are.

Ignorance Is Strength — So whenever you hear Republicans say that they are the party of traditional values, bear in mind that they have actually made a radical break with America’s tradition of valuing education. And they have made this break because they believe that what you don’t know can’t hurt them.

Gaffing His Way to Victory — News alert: Romney is rich, but voters by and large don’t care.

?otd: Been to church lately?

3/11/2012
Writing time yesterday: 1.5 hours (15 minutes of WRPA, Going to Extremes)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 (solid)
Weight: 237.6
Currently reading: 1491 by Charles C. Mann

Tags: Art, Austin, climate, Cool, Culture, gender, healthcare, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Process

Posted: 6:29 am Sun March 11 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad takes comfort in its friends

My story “Lehr, Rex” is reprinted at Apex Magazine — You can score the whole March issue at most ebook stores.

A review of The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity — Including a short story from calendula_witch and me.

War Jitters — James Gurney with a moving tale.

Question of the Day: Does a Lack of Exposure to the Arts Lead to Disaster?

Internists echo call for colon cancer screening — Most adults should get regularly screened for colon cancer between age 50 and 75, according to internal medicine doctors. Um, yes. Trust me, the alternative is beyond horrible.

Gas-filled aspirin is a potent anti-cancer drug — Really? (Thanks to David Shanahan.)

The Golden Rocket — 1956 patent drawing for the Oldsmobile Golden Rocket.

Quadrotor robots are a hit with James Bond theme song — (Thanks, I think, to David Goldman.)

For iRobot, the Future Is Getting Closer — (Via my Dad.)

Tuna Disguise — Advances in biomimicry.

Bizarre Hybrid Deep-Sea Creatures Discovered — Two extreme seafloor conditions in a deep sea site have fostered strange animals.

Robotic Networks Among the Stars — Not six degrees of Kevin Bacondroid.

Conjunction Over Reunion Island — Another awesome APOD image.

In today’s warp-speed world, online missteps spread faster than ever

Have You No Shame, Rush? — Um, no. Not in the slightest. Do we have to ask this question at this point?

Not much excitement with GOP voters

Romney As the Nominee: Still Inevitable and Definitely Dreadful — What I don’t understand, based on simple logic, is why so many people seem to think it will take another Republican president to get us out of the dreadful economic pit we fell into under the last Republican president. Contrast the state of the budget, the economy and employment at Bush’s inauguration to their state after eight years of Republican misrule. If people could just remember, there wouldn’t be another GOP president in our lifetimes.

There is no proper Left in American politics — A British perspective on the blatantly obvious. Which is why the Republican charges of Obama’s “socialism” are so bizarre.

Obama slams GOP for casual war talk re Iran, stresses costs — Ask any conservative: it’s un-American not to get down your shooting’ iron.

?otd: Have you ever thrown your hand?

3/7/2012
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (Going to Extremes nonfiction proposal)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.75 (solid)
Weight: 237.6
Currently reading: 1491 by Charles C. Mann; Permeable Borders by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Tags: Art, Books, Cancer, cars, Cool, Culture, Fiction, healthcare, history, Links, media, nature, Personal, Photos, Politics, Publishing, Science, stories, Tech

Posted: 6:35 am Wed March 07 2012 | Comments(3) |

[links] Link salad puts some Spike Jones on the box

My dear friend and fellow writer Mark Bourne has passed away suddenly and unexpectedly — My deepest condolences to Elizabeth and all his family and friends.

A reader reacts to Westward Weird — They liked my story.

Street Dates and Sales Velocity — Andrew Wheeler on Seanan McGuire and some fairly deep (and interesting) publishing neepery.

Insane art formed by carving books with surgical tools — (Thanks to scarlettina.)

Culturomics And The Google Book Project — The digitisation of over 5 million books has created a huge dataset of cultural interest. Now researchers are beginning to tease it apart using powerful number-crunching techniques.

Aardman’s upcoming pirate movie — Aardman Animation, the makers of Wallace and Gromit, is putting the finishing touches on The Pirates! Band of Misfits, which may be the most technically ambitious stop-frame animated film yet.

The Book of Human Languages — Ta-Nehisi Coates on bilingualism.

The 5 Craziest War Stories (All Happened on the Same Ship) — (Via danjite.)

Hell off Earth: Blustery Exoplanet Charted in 2-D for First Time — Astronomers have made a crude two-dimensional thermal map of an extrasolar world they cannot yet see, confirming that violent winds rapidly whip around the planet.

An Astronaut’s Cravings: Horseradish and Tabasco Sauce — Interesting stuff here that might be useful for SF writers. I like the bit about the biscotti.

High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs

Single molecule’s electric charges seen in first image

Unlimited human eggs ‘potential’ for fertility treatment

Climate Reality, a poignant and important PSA about climate [change] denial in schools.

Frank Rich on Media Bias — The “liberal media” meme has been one the GOP’s most successful Big Lies in their decades-long attack on American culture and society.

The Difference between Romney and Obama (Picture) — This one pretty much says it all. Hey, I wonder if any FOX News viewers saw this? You know Your Liberal media is.

Ghastly Outdated Party — Welcome to Republican America.

Rick Santorum’s Despicable And Hurtful Health Care Lie — I know. A Republican lying. It’s like rain falling in Oregon or something. Who could possibly anticipate such a thing? (Via David Goldman.)

?otd: Can you stand to hear him sing? Do you love the way he talks?

2/27/2012
Writing time yesterday: 4.75 hours (Sunspin revisions)
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 6.25 (fitful)
Weight: 235.4
Currently reading: 1491 by Charles C. Mann

Tags: Art, climate, Cool, Culture, Food, healthcare, Language, Links, media, Movies, Personal, Politics, Publishing, reviews, Science, stories, Tech, Videos

Posted: 6:32 am Mon February 27 2012 | Comments(0) |