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Saturday, December 08, 2007
You might notice a few kinks with this weblog as I try to migrate over to WordPress over the next couple of days. Most of the heavy lifting has been done, and now it's down mostly to design and layout, but for now at least you'll probably notice a few problems here and there. (Like the redirect from the old link.) Hopefully not too many problems, but we shall see. 6:09:00 PM | 0 Comments | link Friday, December 07, 2007
It's still Friday somewhere, right? This evening, I attended a live performance of A Prairie Home Companion, which was a lot of fun, but also really long. Tonight was just the dress rehearsal for tomorrow evening's radio performance, but it was still the full three-hour show. And it came at the tail end of a pretty busy day, with a lot of work squeezed into a few less hours than usual because of our company holiday party. Which is where I was for the three hours before I walked over and met my parents for the show. I might have more to say about it when I'm not so tired, but here's the basics: it really was a lot of fun. It is, however, designed as a radio show and maybe works better that way. That said, Odetta was pretty phenomenal. Anyway, for now, the Friday Random Guess 10, because this blog exists mainly as weak excuse to post this every week. And so, if I didn't, the world could very well end.
11:59:00 PM | 6 Comments | link Thursday, December 06, 2007
Here's why I don't think I'll be attending World Fantasy next year after all: basically, it's the money. It's $125 to register, plus $50 if I want to attend the awards banquet. Then the hotel is $165 a night, which for three nights translates into roughly $500. Assuming I can even get into the convention hotel at this point. Just getting a passport would cost me $97. And the flight...well, I may be able to score a break here, if I can make use of my father's Delta Sky Miles. I don't know what sort of discount, exactly, I could swing...but even if somehow my flight is effectively, miraculously, $0...I'm still out of pocket close to $800. Plus transportation to and from the airport, incidentals, and anything I buy while in Calgary. I can fiddle with that number a little -- stay only two nights, skip the banquet, etc. -- but not enough to really bring it down to something I can easily afford. Especially not if I plan to attend this year's Readercon in July and schedule that trip to Los Angeles I've been planning in September. So while I've been seriously tempted by the idea, I just don't see how I can afford it. 3:07:00 PM | 0 Comments | link Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Following up on yesterday's post, I'm trying out Blogger's new OpenID comment option, which should allow you to comment (hopefully with backlinks) even if you don't have a Blogger/Google account. I don't know if this is the best option, or even if it will work for everybody, but I thought I'd give it a go. It's only thanks to the comments at Thud's earlier post that I even know this option exists in BloggerDraft. (Which I also didn't know about.) Let me know what you think, assuming you're able, in the comments below. 9:52:00 PM | 9 Comments | link From Yahoo News: A CAIR spokeswoman, who said the audio was not a four-minute segment, but a series of clips separated by beeps, called the suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, "bizarre, sloppy and baseless."Yeah, that sounds like Michael Savage all right. 6:30:00 PM | 1 Comments | link Monday, December 03, 2007
Apologies to my non-Blogger readers. Apparently, Google does not want to play well with others anymore. I'm not sure if this is enough reason for me to leave Blogger altogether -- I'm running more than a couple of weblogs off it at the moment -- but I am looking into alternatives. Certainly Haloscan is starting to look a lot more appealing. In the meantime, I do hope you'll consider still commenting, at least to some extent. The thing I don't get is: who benefits from this? Does Google really think this will encourage more people to sign up for Blogger accounts, or that their users want to exclude comments from people who don't? 4:07:00 PM | 11 Comments | link Can someone explain this? The nomination deadline for the annual Pushcart Prize is December 1. However, if Amazon.com is to be believed, the book with this year's selections will be available on December 10. That seems like an awfully unlikely turn-around time to me, suggesting that the final table of contents was set long before the nomination deadline. In fact, Amazon is already listing the book as in stock. I don't see how a nomination that reached Pushcart on December 1 has any shot at making the final cut, quite frankly. Which is something I wish I'd known when I made my own six nominations last month. 12:05:00 PM | 2 Comments | link The most viewed Yahoo News photos this morning were mostly of dinosaur mummies and ancient sea scorpions that lived before the dinosaurs and, of course, the Spice Girls. Y'know, lots of ancient fossils. 12:04:00 PM | 1 Comments | link Sunday, December 02, 2007
So I haven't had many people take me up on my mix-CD-a-month, and there's only one month left, but here's what I listened to in November, more or less:
3:38:00 PM | 0 Comments | link Friday, November 30, 2007
The Friday Random Guess 10:
Anyway, that's what these are: song lyrics. You guess the song title and band, and we all clap and cheer uproariously when you get it right. Sound like fun? Good, because that's how it works. Oh, and we did this last week, too, if you were wondering how that played out. As always, best of luck! 10:11:00 PM | 5 Comments | link |
