[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 wants to be called Deacon Blues
Mary Robinette Kowal is most kind to Green [ Powell's | Amazon
| Kindle | Barnes & Noble | Borders ] — An old post which I’d missed the first time around, it popped up in her year in review.
My Interzone story, “Dreams of the White City”, is now a podcast —
Artists, thank the automobile — Art guru James Gurney with an interesting connection between the automotive industry and the visual arts.
A Little Decadence — Bad Astronomy pisses on the “when does the decade end” fire.
Exoplanetary thoughts for 2010 — Centauri Dreams on one of my favorite topics.
The Casimir Effect — APOD with a microphotograph illustrating the Casimir Effect (which is explained in the caption).
?otD: Do you want a name when you lose?
1/3/2009
Body movement: n/a (60 minute urban walk forthcoming)
Hours slept: 6.5
This morning’s weigh-in: 224.5
Currently reading:
Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
Tags: Art, audio, Books, Cool, Culture, Green, Links, Personal, podcasts, reviews, Science, stories
Posted: 7:26 am Sun January 03 2010 | Comments(0) |
[podcasting] Recorded some audio
just departed Nuevo Rancho Lake. He’d dropped by to record a podcast with me for Tor.com, and we shared pizza and salad with . Neither of us was in top form, but the podcasts came out well, and it was good to connect. Me, bushed, sleeping Real Soon Now.
Tags: audio, Child, Personal, podcasts
Posted: 7:14 pm Mon December 21 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad tapers off the opiates, starts posting again
The Clockwork Jungle Book is out!
Shimmer author spotlight on me — Including a podcast of me reading my story from Clockwork Jungle Book, “Shedding Skin: Or How the World Came to Be”.
Jay Lake’s Get Well Audio Fiction — A full cast reading of two of my stories at Orycon by Jeff Soesbe, M. K. Hobbson, Dave Goldman, David D. Levine, Camille Alexa, and Mary Robinette Kowal. Thank you so much, guys.
on characters and the monkeysphere — I appear to have an elevated Dunbar number. And more on Dunbar numbers, via writerjeremy on Facebook.
Skxawng! — On created languages. (Thanks to .)
?otD: Where have you guys been, anyway?
12/9/2009
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride (long walk planned later)
Hours slept: 8.75
This morning’s weigh-in: 230.2
Currently reading:
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Tags: audio, Cool, Culture, Language, Links, Personal, podcasts, stories
Posted: 9:43 am Wed December 09 2009 | Comments(0) |
[sale] Audio rights for “On the Human Plan” to Escape Pod
I’m proud to announce that audio rights to my short story “On the Human Plan” (Lone Star Stories issue 31) were acquired by Escape Pod today.
Tags: audio, podcasts, Sale, stories
Posted: 4:35 pm Sun October 18 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad asks where did you come from, where did you go?
Excellent discussion of my short story, “Over the Walls of Eden”, on the DrabbleCast discussion forum — (Thanks to .)
Pat Rothfuss is raising money for Project Heifer — Go play along. He’s raffling off naming rights to a character in his next novel. (Via Ben Simons.)
8 days and 3,700 miles — An artist’s journey from New Hampshire to Oregon.
Andrew Wheeler has the quote of the week — Marginally not safe for work, and funny as hell. Ah, England.
Gunboat Diplomacy: 1905 — Shorpy with some history.
Ass bombing — Prophylactic terrorism. (Thanks, I think, to .)
Democracy Corps: Republican Base Voters Living In Another World — Fascinating piece on a liberal-progressive study of the Republican base and the cherished convictions which seem so lunatic to anyone who isn’t a strong conservative. Conservatives see themselves as an oppressed minority, holding on to knowledge that isn’t represented in the wider media and culture. (Obviously, read with the appropriate grain of salt given the source, but this sure hits all my confirmation biases.)
?otD: How long ago would you have been married, if it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eyed Joe?
10/17/2009
Body movement: 15 minutes of stretching and meditation, 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.0
This morning’s weigh-in: 232.2
Currently reading:
Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox;
Demonhead by Shannon Page
Tags: Art, audio, Funny, Links, Personal, Photos, podcasts, Politics, Publishing, reviews, stories
Posted: 6:21 am Sat October 17 2009 | Comments(2) |
[links] Link salad takes a right at the light, heads on until night
Don’t forget to vote in the Flash Fiction Open contest: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
Shaun Farrell comments on my recent podcast interview with Mur Lafferty
Google’s Schmidt on Google Books settlement — Basically, “tough shit”, is how I read this. (Via @LAGilman.)
20 most bizarre Craigslist adverts of all time
Centauri Dreams with more on light craft
Dreams of a Lunar Observatory — If you could build an observatory on the Moon, what would you look for? Cheese?
One, Two, Three, Many — Scrivener’s Error asks some smart questions about electoral districting, does not supply answers.
Conservative Politics Disguised As Religion — Ah, the Presidential Prayer Team. Hey, conservative America, those religious convictions not so strong when you find yourself praying for a black man? Racism much?
?otD: Who made Go-Kart Mozart’s weather charts, anyway?
9/16/2009
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 5.5
This morning’s weigh-in: 231.8
Currently reading:
The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine
Tags: audio, contest, Culture, Funny, interviews, Links, Personal, podcasts, Politics, Polls, Publishing, Religion, Science, stories, weird
Posted: 5:32 am Thu September 17 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad wakes up, gets out of bed, drags a comb…
A reader reacts (well) to Green [ Powell's | Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble | Borders ]
ISBW #131 – Worldcon Interviews – Lake, (Felix) Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan — Mur Lafferty’s podcast, interviewing a few of us writers who were at WorldCon.
Ukrainian Sand Animation — Wow. Fascinating video. (Thanks to MH, whose LJ handle I suddenly can’t remember.)
Famous photos recreated in Lego — Cool.
with The wonder of the physical universe: Naica, Mexico — Wow. A must-read blog post (with photos!) about giant crystals. (Thanks to .)
Astronomers Plan Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves — Now that is some bad-ass instrumentation.
Lightcraft: A Laser Push to Orbit — Centauri Dreams with a write up on an interesting launch technology. Like Project Orion, without the radiation poisoning.
Venus probe images hint at ancient ocean — Ah, to be young again. Or something. (Nicked from .)
You’re Likely to Live! — Freakonomics on ageing and the Gompertz Law of human mortality. Who knew? (Besides actuaries, of course.)
A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words — Anti-Obama derangement, fairly literally.
Race is a Factor — Ta-Nehisi Coates with more on anti-Obama vitriol, comparing it to anti-Clinton vitriol. Hey, remember when the Right was tut-tutting about liberals and their inexplicable Bush derangement syndrome? Yeah, well, they sure don’t remember it.
?otD: Why is a duck?
9/15/2009
Body movement: 15 minutes of stretching and meditation, 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 5.75
This morning’s weigh-in: 229.4
Currently reading:
The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine
Tags: Art, Books, Conventions, Cool, Culture, Green, Links, Personal, Photos, podcasts, Politics, Process, reviews, Science, Writing
Posted: 4:39 am Tue September 15 2009 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad discovers Friday
The Flash Fiction Open continues well [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — Some more good entries these past two days in comments on both sides of the blog. I’ll put together a poll over the weekend. Meanwhile, if you’ve been thinking of writing one, you’ve got a another day or so.
Seattle Geekly podcast episode 30 — In which both and I are interviewed in connection with Grant’s Pass, along with a cast of several.
Great flaming gas bags! — Walter Jon Williams on Jess Nevins on zeppelin pulps. W00t! (Via .)
Prehistoric monster terrorises kids in the Ganges — Sort of… (Via io9.com.)
Healthcare that works — The New York Times with some facts, some polls and some strong analogies about healthcare reform.
Joe Republican — An essay which makes much the same point I did yesterday: that government and liberal activists have made almost everything people assume about their lives today possible. Clean air, clean water, safe roads, safe medicine, workplace benefits and so forth. (Thanks to .)
?otD: Who put the “Fri” in “Friday”?
9/4/2009
Body movement: n/a (overslept post-travel)
Hours slept: 6.5
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (forgot to weigh)
Currently reading:
The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine;
The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham
Tags: audio, Cool, Funny, healthcare, Links, Personal, podcasts, Politics, weird, Writing
Posted: 4:30 am Fri September 04 2009 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad has a busy Friday
My short story “Skinhorse Goes to Mars” is live at Escape Pod — I’m quite enamored of their content rating.
Last Drink Bird Head comes to town — A cool flash collection, with many fine authors including my own self.
A question of freedom — Ta-Nehisi Coates on R. Dwayne Betts’ very difficult path to writing. How hard have you worked to be a writer?
Pension Office: 1918 — Wish my personal library looked like that.
This Day in Actual Communist and Real Nazi History — In case, you know, you think liberals are Communists and/or Nazis. From The Edge of the American West.
The more things change — Tom Tomorrow with a link to an editorial expressing skepticism about the need for the president’s proposed health care reform, and confidence that capitalism and American ingenuity will eventually take care of any problems our health care system might have. From 1949. Yep, that worked out well.
An Officer’s Experience in Our Christian Military — Think carefully about this one. Especially if you are conservative or a Christian.
?otD: Huh?
8/21/2009
Body movement: 10 minutes of stretching and meditation, 30 minutes on stationary bike
This morning’s weigh-in: 227.0
Currently reading:
The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine
Tags: audio, Books, Links, Personal, Photos, podcasts, Politics, Publishing, stories, Writing
Posted: 4:09 am Fri August 21 2009 | Comments(2) |
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