Tiger

April 30th 2005 at 11:25 am

Like many other mac fans out there I purchased the latest upgrade to the Apple OS and am pleased. Here’s a review by John Siracusa, probably the smartest computer OS reviewer I’ve read, giving his long, detailed examination of Tiger and this blurb about Tiger’s performance:

For over four years now, Mac OS X has gotten […]

PINK!

April 29th 2005 at 9:27 pm

Here at the Allegro with Jack Skillingstead for the Nebulas, and our room is pink.
It’d be scary pink if I wasn’t so secure in my masculinity. Now to find something to eat.

Nebulating

April 29th 2005 at 10:45 am

I’m getting ready to hop in the car and drive to Chicago here for the Nebulas (an awards ceremony sponsored by the Science Fiction Writers of America). See you all in a couple days, though I will try to update from there.
Cheers.

Borders 30% Off Coupon

April 28th 2005 at 10:43 am

You could always go forth and purchase a book with this Borders 30% Off Coupon…

Tame Your Inbox

April 28th 2005 at 8:41 am

Macworld has an interesting article about taming your inbox that applies to any computer user written by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders:

Each e-mail message in your inbox demands your time and attention. Filters and rules are great for reducing some of that demand, shunting easily defined mail such as e-newsletters and personal notes to their […]

The Millennium Falcon of Minivans

April 27th 2005 at 10:42 am

My friend Josh Smith has a guest blog entry by an officer about stow and go seating in the new Chrysler Minivans and its capacity to assist drug smuggling, and it has some hilarious quotes:

Sure there is practicality in the SNG seating. Everyone races to fit
as much cabin space as possible in the space allowed […]

Email

April 26th 2005 at 4:24 pm

Someone just pointed out that I don’t have my email address anywhere prominent on my website so that people could email me if they so wished.
Good point.
If you look to your left I have now put in an email.
Thanks.
As to why it took me several months to notice this glaring absence, I have no idea…

Dust and Slush

April 26th 2005 at 2:28 pm

Jon Hansen notes that Realms of Fantasy, the magazine, needs a new reader now:

Interesting news: I see that Carina has resigned her position as slush reader for Realms of Fantasy. My guess is that it might be best not to send them anything until they hire someone else.

Meanwhile, Spacedaily talks about the possible hazards […]

Weekend

April 25th 2005 at 3:19 pm

I had been planning on going up to Penguicon, but the person I was hoping to drive up with had life intervene, and I’m thankful I chose not to drive up myself because life intervened over the weekend shortly after, and it snowed. Freaking miserable:

In the meantime, however, I’m thinking about pre-ordering this book based […]

Millennium Park Cloud Gate Cover Up

April 22nd 2005 at 3:43 pm

My friend Josh Smith visited Chicago this weekend and found the Cloud Gate sculpture was covered up (police had been ticketing people who tried to take pictures of it because the city owned the ‘rights to it’ and lots of people have been linking to that in outrage, though it looks like the cover may […]