Archive for June, 2009
I used to think I knew…
June 30th 2009 at 3:54 pm
For a long time I’ve been scribbling ideas down for a website, or maybe just a series on this blog, that I would call “Things I thought I used to know.”
I’m always fascinated to learn about things I was demonstrably wrong in ‘knowing were true.’ Maybe it is because I’m an agnostic rationalist or something [...]
Jim Hines is taunting the internets
June 26th 2009 at 3:15 pm
Jim Hines is taunting the internets. This is one of many bullet points, and made me spit my strawberry smoothie out I laughed so hard (I’m pretending to be a writer by hanging out at a coffee shop down in Lima):
Dear Cory Doctorow – Information does not want to be free. Information wants to be [...]
Steampunk and people of color
June 25th 2009 at 12:11 pm
Racialicious writer Jha has a very fascinating essay up about Steampunk and the mixed feelings one may have about it due to the neo-Victorianism aspect of it. I’ve brought this up at a couple panels now, and made some uneasy or unwilling to talk about it, but Jha nails my dual issues (and this is [...]
Questions week
June 25th 2009 at 6:15 am
Geordi asks:
Getting started: Go for the novel or start with short stories? or both simultaneously?
Managing: How many stories do you typically have going at one time?
(sorry, if these are repeat questions from other posts)
Geordi: I actually have an answer to that question, and it can be found on a podcast called Adventures in Sci Fi [...]
Some Tides reviews
June 25th 2009 at 1:31 am
The short story collection has still been racking up some positive reviews from people online:
John Ottinger at Grasping for the Wind:
Buckell has a clipped style of writing, a way of packing in a lot of story into what is not written, and so his stories, while often quite short, manage to have significant depth.
A Working [...]
Ask a question week
June 22nd 2009 at 5:04 pm
So I’m plugging away at catching up on freelance stuff. I just finished writing a story, “The Eve of the Fall of Habesh” for a project. Hopefully I can announce soon where that will appear (if its accepted, of course).
That ate up the last two weeks. As I said earlier this month, when work crunches [...]
Metaplace appearance
June 15th 2009 at 7:21 am
I’ll be interviewed at Metaplace this Tuesday (tomorrow) at 2pm PST. Metaplace is a virtual world that you can run right in a browser window.
Here’s an interview with Raph Koster, the president, all about the virtual world platform.
Robin at Metaplace already walked me through the place. It’s pretty easy to fiddle around with and get [...]
Mac Pro for sale
June 10th 2009 at 4:23 pm
I have an Intel Mac Pro, with two 2.0 GHZ dual core Intel Xeon processors for sale, with 6 gigs of RAM and a 500 gig (7200 rpm) hard drive.
I purchased it back in March 2007. You can see the video I made about unboxing it here.
The full technical details can be found here.
The reason [...]
NovyMirror interview
June 8th 2009 at 4:59 pm
Rick Novy interviewed me for his online video cast.
Not sure if I stuck my foot in my mouth trying to explain why I think 4 posts about race in my blog over 2,000 from 1998-2009 that talk about lots of other things don’t make me a ‘race blogger.’ Mostly I was trying to explain that [...]
What I’ve been reading
June 8th 2009 at 8:11 am
One of the interesting things about parenthood for me is that I’m consuming a lot more books and audiobooks. I read on the Kindle.app for iPhone as I feed, or rock, or just have a baby passed out on my chest. I even read to the babies from these books at night, if it helps [...]
