Archive for January, 2009
Ownership society
January 31st 2009 at 4:03 pm
I found this article by Kevin Kelly to be rather thought provoking:
I use roads that I don’t own. I have immediate access to 99% of the roads and highways of the world (with a few exceptions) because they are a public commons. We are all granted this street access via our payment of local taxes. [...]
Doing the retro thing: writing on paper
January 30th 2009 at 3:03 pm
Wednesday, while having a car starter installed, I realized I’d left my laptop at home and would be without that particular tool for several hours.
Taking my own advice about using the tools I had around me, I swung by the local Waldenbooks looking for pen and some blank pages (having failed at a card store [...]
‘Mitigation’ to be in Year’s Best SF #14
January 29th 2009 at 1:09 am
I got word today that ‘Mitigation,’ the novelette that Karl Schroeder and I wrote for the anthology Fast Forward 2 (edited by Lou Anders) is being picked up by David Hartwell for The Year’s Best Science Fiction #14.
This is my second appearance in YBSF, and quite an honor. I loved writing this story with Karl [...]
Mall zombie
January 28th 2009 at 11:32 am
I’m at the mall waiting for a remote car starter to be installed in the minivan. Due to the snow, I’m the only customer in the place.
I keep expecting zombies to burst forth and attack…
Green Man Review’s best of 2008
January 26th 2009 at 3:51 pm
Green Man Review asked a number of interesting people what their best of 2008 was. I added my two cents worth here, for those interested.
Synergy
January 22nd 2009 at 1:33 pm
Jay Tomio at BookSpotCentral has started a new feature called Synergy where a number of people all answer a question (you’ve seen it done on SF Signal’s Mind-Meld before).
The first post looks at what we focus on when we read, and can be found here, and I contributed a few lines in response as well [...]
You spin me right round baby, right round
January 21st 2009 at 2:32 pm
After having the sports car sit for a week or so, I thought I’d be smart and warm it up today and drive it around the edge of town, grab a bite to eat, then come home and work.
Quarter of a mile outside town I turned onto a country road, got up to 45/50 (there’s [...]
Some interviews
January 19th 2009 at 2:54 pm
Happy MLK day.
Spent last night working on a synopsis/proposal and doing research for it. Came up with some nifty ideas, now to see if they all mesh when I turn them into the proposal. All of which lead to me spending this morning reading about the Northwest Passage and some geography of the Arctic circle.
Which [...]
Cancellations and speaking at O’Reilly Tools of Change conference
January 17th 2009 at 9:32 pm
I regret to announce that I will not be able to attend, on April 3-5, in Huntsville, AL, University of Alabama/Huntsville’s academic conference “In Other Worlds” where I was to be a guest. It lands too close to comfort to Emily’s due date for the twins, and I felt it would be playing with fire [...]
The Nebulas, they are a-changing
January 15th 2009 at 1:52 pm
The Nebula Awards, the annual award given by SF/F authors to their peers for best works in the field, have undergone some tweaking.
The SFWA Livejournal has the update here:
Some of the key changes include: the elimination of rolling eligibility and a return to the calender year system, the elimination of the script category as a [...]
