[links] Link salad has a devil set aside for you
Art for my forthcoming Realms of Fantasy story, “The Fall of the Moon”
Random House chief sees bright but worrisome future for e-books — Excuse me, I gotta wear shades.
“Bohemian Rhapsody”: Bismillah or… Mitch Miller? — Lady Mondegreen strikes again.
The Sarcastic Fringehead — This appears to be the real name of a real fish, though I still suspect an Internet prank. (Thanks to willyumtx.)
Imaging Giants and Dwarfs — More on brown dwarfs from Centauri Dreams.
The Planet and the Radio Dish — APOD with a very curious image, indeed.
Reason To Workout WIN — Hahahah.
The GOP’s New Tax Cut Hypocrisy — Five years ago, Republicans backed tax cuts—but said deficits didn’t matter. Today, they say deficits are all that matters, but still like tax cuts.
?otD: Will you be back this time tomorrow?
8/3/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1.0 hour (revisions)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.0 (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: 242.8 (yikes!)
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 3/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently (re)reading: Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
Tags: Art, ebooks, Funny, Language, Links, music, Personal, Politics, Publishing, Science, stories
Posted: 5:07 am Tue August 03 2010 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad wishes it had a pencil-thin moustache
A reader reacts to Escapement
The United Mistakes of America — On our license to err.
Ça planait pas dans sa voix — This piece about a Belgian lawsuit over the original recording of Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça Plane Pour Moi” is both hilarious and bizarre. Read the comments, too.
Sunset, Shadowrise — A fascinating image from central Australia.
Get Ready for Steerable Photon Guns — “Steerable Photon Guns” would be a great name for a rock band.
New Planets Highlight Orbital Resonance — From the department of learning something new every day.
Gingrich to give speech drawing on ‘lessons’ from anti-war secular socialists Orwell and Camus. — The synopsis of the event at the AEI website notes that Gingrich will draw “on the lessons of Camus and Orwell” to “describe the dangers of a wartime government that uses language and misleading labels to obscure reality” The man behind the GOPAC memo is going to talk about this? Irony is not only dead; it’s been dismembered, burned, and its ashes scattered over the RNC offices.
Santorum’s Classless Society — More bizarre rhetoric from the Right. Besides which, isn’t that a Marxist phrase?
?otD: Facial hair or clean shaven?
7/29/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1 hour, 45 minutes (revisions, WRPA)
Body movement: 50 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 8.0 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Tags: Books, Culture, Escapement, Language, Links, music, Personal, Photos, Politics, reviews, Science
Posted: 4:50 am Thu July 29 2010 | Comments(2) |
[personal|cancer] State of the Jay, one day pre-chemo
Not much new to report. The cold is definitely a tail-end charlie, no worse than a mild allergy fit today. This means I can go in for my chemo infusion tomorrow. Need to be health as possible, and well-rested, for that. Been laying low all the same, including another passage of the Lorazepam tango last night. I was up for an hour or so in the middle of the night thanks to my lower GI, but lately that’s been more normal than not. For whatever value of “normal” ever pertains to me these day.
I am pleased with the amount of writing I’ve gotten done lately, including an hour and forty-five minutes’ worth yesterday. “The Stars Do Not Lie” will have to go on hiatus while I munge through chemo weekend, but it’s got shape, momentum, direction, etc. That’s good. Other projects are advancing as well, at varying but appropriate speeds. I think I’ve got a handle on writing during chemo.
Don’t know yet what this weekend’s Tweetsnark movie will be. I’ll have to figure it out today. Also seeing my therapist today. Not like I have any life issues these days or anything.
Last night, during my awake period, my brain decided to inform me that Jabberwocky can be sung to the tune of “Amazing Grace.” (And therefore to “House of the Rising Sun, “Gilligan’s Island”, etc. Yes, I’m fun at parties.) I decided to test this assertion, for which and should be profoundly grateful they’re arriving tonight, because otherwise I might have wound up sleeping in the car. Go ahead. Try it for yourself. No one will mind, I swear.
Also working on a complex post about the logical fallacies I see in political discussion, both on my blog and elsewhere. A lot of false equivalency and “No True Scotsman” arguments from conservatives anxious to distance themselves from the statements of their own leadership, and the behaviors of their activists. Requires more time and attention than I have before Day Jobbery this morning to finish, especially given how much I slept.
I swear, one thing I will embrace the most, post-chemo, is a return to my normal sleep schedule. Gah.
Meanwhile, you may shop as usual. No need to return to your homes.
Tags: Calendula, Cancer, Funny, music, Personal, Politics, shellyrae
Posted: 4:55 am Thu March 25 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad slept like a spy welded into a sidesaddle diesel tank
Karaoke Night! — Scrivener’s Error with the first salvo in Amazonfail: The Musical.
Three weeks post-chemo — From a fellow cancer survivor on a similar journey to mine. A lot for me to think about here.
1961 Panhard PL17 — If I had a stupid amount of money, I’d buy this car for the sheer WTFery.
Dark Energy: Calibrating Standard Candles — Centauri Dreams with some cool space science geekery.
The Slesarev “Svyatogor”, experimental Russian aircraft, circa 1916 — If Fred Flinstone had built an airplane, it might have looked like this.
Partisanship hits California Assembly over Schwarzenegger’s lt. governor pick — Without respect to the merits of the story, that’s easily the stupidest headline since “This Just In: Sun Rises in East!”
How Christian Were the Founders? — More on textbooks in Texas and Christanist mythmaking. These people have learned Stalin’s lessons about truth. What precisely do they think they are accomplishing? American strength wasn’t built on narrow minds and closed doors. I’d prefer not to end my days in a Third World quasitheocracy, thank you very much.
Justice Clinton? — An odd little bit of political speculation regarding possible Supreme Court succession. I can’t imagine it personally, given how deeply the Right has invested in demonizing Clintons in general and Hillary in particular. If she were nominated, the country would go into absolute vapor lock while Republican nihilism ran amok.
Them there I’s — Language Log on the ridiculous “Obama says ‘i’ too much” meme on the Right. This one’s been percolating for a while, and like most conservative talking points, doesn’t stand up to even a shred of first order analysis. Confidential to conservative America: When you guys lap this stuff up, it makes the rest of us wonder how you get out of bed in the morning without tripping over your own feet. Try fixating on something substantive. Or, you know, real.
?otD: How do you sleep? Show your work.
2/12/2010
Writing time yesterday: 75 minutes (revisions on
Endurance)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.25 (poorly)
This morning’s weigh-in: 225.0
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 8/10
Currently reading: [between books]
Tags: amazonfail, Cancer, cars, Funny, health, Links, music, Personal, Photos, Politics, Publishing, Religion, Science
Posted: 5:13 am Fri February 12 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad says never never on a Sunday
My multiple Year’s Best story “On the Human Plan” is live at Escape Pod as a podcast
“Light washing” in gaming — A discussion of portrayals of characters of color, with passing references to the cover art of Justine Larbalestier’s Liar and my own Green.
Verne’s Right Half — A fascinating look at Jules Verne’s manuscripts, and the publishing process of his times, courtesy of art writing guru James Gurney.
The Beatles: A Retrospective From The Year 3000 — Hilarious video. (Thanks to Bill M.)
Poetica Vaginal — (Thanks to .)
The Secret Cities of Yemen — (Via Dark Roasted Blend.)
Milne: Haiti’s poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history…when in reality it is the direct consequence of colonial exploitation
?otD: When do you do it, if not on a Sunday?
1/24/2009
Body movement: n/a (some walking later today, hopefully)
Hours slept: 9.0
This morning’s weigh-in: 227.6
Currently reading:
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Tags: audio, Books, Cool, Funny, Green, Haiti, Links, music, Personal, Photos, podcasts, Politics, Publishing, stories, Videos
Posted: 8:23 am Sun January 24 2010 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad, mostly science edition
Call for masks — A way of sticking it to my cancer.
Interzone 225 ToC announced — With a novelette by and me. Also, she and I have sold a flash piece to Electric Velocipede.
A reader reacts to Green — At the bottom of their summary of recent reading. Some very nice things said.
Early 1970s ad for After Six men’s fashions — My eyes! My eyes! Augh!
Google and realtime search — “There were five exabytes of information generated from the dawn of mankind to the year 2003,” he said. “That amount of information is now generated every two days.” Wow.
Mimicking the Building Prowess of Nature — Scientists build new materials using inspiration from complex biological forms. Some wild photos, and really neat materials science here.
Humanoid dinosaurs? Maybe not so much. — Some arguments about evolutionary paths from Tetrapod Zoology.
Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months — Something to think about in these days of climate change risk.
Why did HAL sing “Daisy”? — Fascinating. (Snurched from the Twitter feed of @jstephenyork.)
?otD: Why was the band on the run?
11/12/2009
Body movement: 55 minute urban walk (airport infrastructure!)
Hours slept: 5.75
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (traveling)
Currently reading:
The Jade Man’s Skin by Daniel Fox
Tags: Art, Books, Calendula, Cancer, Cool, Culture, Green, Links, Movies, music, Personal, reviews, Sale, Science, stories, Tech, weird
Posted: 5:41 am Thu November 12 2009 | Comments(0) |
[cancer] The return of the Fear (again)
On the way back from physical therapy yesterday morning, I had my first full blown attack of the Fear in almost two months. Which is logical enough. I knew it was coming. We’re two weeks out from the date of my next scans, and the oncology consult is only a couple of days after that.
As it happens, I had a therapy appointment yesterday. My therapist asked me what had triggered the Fear. I told him I’d been in PT, the PT had been particularly painful and difficult, and I’d been talking about the cancer stuff with my physical therapist. Then I’d gotten in the Genre car to drive home, and Fastball’s “The Way” came up on the rotation in my shuffle of mix CDs. That song always gives me a little emotional catch, and this time the catch was enough to open the door to the Fear.
His suggestion was to listen to talk radio in the car for the next few weeks.
I figure I’ll see the Fear come back between now and the 22nd, then the 26th. It’s ugly and I’m not proud of myself for being so thoroughly in its grip, but this, too, is a part of living with cancer. I am surrounded by loving friends and family, and is beyond stellar, and so with cancer I shall live.
Damn it all.
Tags: Cancer, health, music, Personal
Posted: 5:37 am Thu October 08 2009 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad is sick, comes to the Internet anyway
More classic and pseudoclassic National Parks poster art — (Thanks to .)
Ornithopter madness
How to Truck 66 200,000-Pound Antennas to 16,000 Feet — Which reminds of this US Navy land tug, used to hauld decommissioned nuclear reactors from barges on the Columbia to their open grave at the Hanford site. (Via Jalopnik.)
NASA’s Version of Star Trek Replicator Ready for On Orbit Test — Ooooh. (Via @JStevenYork.)
America’s Next Great Pundit — It could be you. A strange contest. Wonder if I should enter it…
JK Rowling lost out on US medal over Harry Potter ‘witchcraft’ — Ah, yes. Conservative “thought”. (Via Scrivener’s Error.)
How the iPod became a tool of war — (Via Scrivener’s Error.)
?otD: Which way did he go, George?
9/30/2009
Body movement: n/a (sick)
Hours slept: 11.25! (sick)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (traveling)
Currently reading:
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
Tags: Art, Cool, Links, music, Personal, Politics, Publishing, Science, Tech
Posted: 5:26 am Wed September 30 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad heads toward Seattle
I am reading and signing at University Books in Seattle — This evening, Friday, July 24 at 7 pm. For those of you who are fans of , she will be there. I’ll also be attending the Clarion West party later tonight.
A medium-warm review of Green [ Powell's | Amazon
| Barnes & Noble | Borders ]
Mari Kurisato on writers who twitter — Including me and .
Star Wars and Dune — Hmmm… (Snurched from Dark Roasted Blend.)
30 classic album covers in Lego — From the dept of people with too much time on their hands. Cool stuff. (Thanks to .)
An amazing tattoo — Yes, work safe. (Thanks to .)
Artificial Brain Ten Years Away From Reality — Hmm. Then will we all have prosthetic foreheads to wear upon our real heads?
10 reasons I know the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked — Hahahah! (Snurched from Bad Astronomy.)
Habitable Exomoons Should Be Detectable — Wow, just wow.
Evolution Could Explain Cancer Relapse Mystery — Evolution may explain why treated tumors sometimes spread more aggressively than untreated ones. Fascinating. (Resulting medical advances not valid if you are a Creationist or an IDiot.)
?otD: Who’s Attle, and why do I want to go see them?
7/24/2009
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride, 10 minutes of stretching and meditation
This morning’s weigh-in: 222.2
Currently reading:
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks;
Stupid Quest by C.S. Inman
Tags: Calendula, Cancer, Child, Conventions, Cool, Culture, Green, Links, Movies, music, Personal, reviews, Science, Seattle, weird, Writing
Posted: 4:16 am Fri July 24 2009 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad wakes up and yawns
Subterranean Press with a nice Booklist review of METAtropolis
Spiderwick Meets Dinotopia — Hahahah.
Watchmen, sort of — Heh. Weird in a very fun way. (Thanks to .)
Ski Hindi — A charming story from Language Log.
Ways of Going: 1865 — Shorpy with multimodal transportation, Civil War style.
Put down the duckie — And speaking of ducks… Sex with Ducks.
Space Torso Reveals Cancer Risk for Astronauts
?otD: Where did I leave my dogma?
5/31/2009
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
This morning’s weigh-in: 214.6
Currently reading:
The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold;
A Long Line of Cells by Lewis Thomas
Tags: Art, Books, Cancer, Cool, Funny, Language, Links, music, Personal, Photos, reviews, Science, trains, weird
Posted: 9:11 am Sun May 31 2009 | Comments(1) |
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