Archive for November, 2003
new office
November 30th 2003 at 11:26 pm
The new office photo journal.
I mentioned that we swapped the office and bedroom locations. The office worked out real well in the new location. I’ve got a corner to myself and so does Em. The picture below shows my area, and Em’s iMac kinda horns in a bit on the left there.
I wanted a display […]
props
November 29th 2003 at 10:43 pm
I know most people have this either hate or love thing going with the prez (I’m neither), but you gotta give props where they are due. This was a big publicity stunt, but amazing nonetheless…
FOXNews.com - Top Stories - Bush Makes Surprise Visit to Troops in Baghdad
President Bush (search) flew in under the cover of darkness […]
Dial in
November 28th 2003 at 11:05 am
We’re swapping office and bedroom locations here at casa-de-Buckell, and as a result the DSL Modem is unhooked and I’m dialing in like once a day to check email.
I should be back causing trouble by Monday.
Hope you all had a good thanksgiving and enjoy your weekends.
No Lunch :-(
November 26th 2003 at 11:34 am
In an alternate universe I’d be having lunch with the editor interested in buying Crystal Rain, but in this universe he called yesterday to say he’s way too booked up on family visiting.
So I dug in and got 2 extra hours of sleep, wandered around the apartment a little bit, and now I’m warming up […]
Low End iPod?
November 26th 2003 at 10:12 am
Low End iPod On The Way? :: iPod Hacks :: The Latest and Greatest for Your iPod
We have an unconfirmed rumor report that the upcoming Apple Store event (Friday, 11/28) will include the release of a new, low-end iPod. This new unit is reported to be a 5GB model (same capacity as the original iPod), […]
reflective venus
November 25th 2003 at 9:55 pm
This’ll make for a nice detail in a hard sf story:
Venus has ‘heavy metal mountains’
The highlands of Venus are covered by a heavy metal “frost”, say planetary scientists from Washington University.
Because it is hot enough to melt lead at the surface, metals vaporise and condense at cooler, higher elevations.
This may explain why […]
diebold
November 25th 2003 at 2:07 pm
With all these viruses running around, you might be worried that your ATMs will be more and more running on windowos: Wired News: Windows to Power ATMs in 2005
By 2005, 65 percent of bank ATMs (not including free-standing machines in places like convenience stores and casinos) in the United States will use a stripped-down version […]
Geeks are not as outnumbered as they believe
November 25th 2003 at 1:52 pm
Ars Technica: Geeks are not as outnumbered as they believe
A recent Pew Research study shows thata surprisingly-high percentage — 31% — of U.S. residents are technically savvy. Researchers were surprised by the number of geeky people.
As more of the population becomes geeked out, it seems to me that SF’s 6% market share is troubling. Of […]
paying for music doubles
November 25th 2003 at 1:48 pm
Macworld UK - US legal music downloads double
A quarterly digital music behaviour report from research firm Ipsos-Insight shows that in late June 2003, “roughly” one out of six (16 per cent) of US music downloaders aged 12 and older had paid to download music online. The company says this is the equivalent of 10 million […]
Hey Trey
November 24th 2003 at 4:25 pm
Hey Trey writes:
So I started reading Men Writing Science Fiction as Women yesterday. As I often do with magazines and anthologies these days, I look for stories by friends or people I know something about. In this case, one of the first stories I read was TOBY BUCKELL’s “In the Heart of Kalikuata.” I won’t […]
