Month: October 2004

Gee, my search referrers are just full of questions to which I don’t have the answer:

how long can defrosted fish stay in the refrigerator?

Anyone know? I rarely eat, much less cook, fish.

Oh, and the “crack whore” requests are down to only six today.

In my search referrals, somebody asks — and since I don’t know, I’m passing it along to you folks — “what is the wasteland in beowulf?”

Of course, thirteen people came here looking for “crack whore”, so you never know what sort of answer might satisfy these people.

For no real reason at all, I recently added Locus Online to my news feeds. Anyway, today’s edition features a brief obituary for Tetsu Yano, whom I’d never actually heard of before, but who apparently wrote (among other things) “the most reprinted Japanese science fiction story in the in the world” according to Strange Horizons. (I’m still trying to find a copy online of the story in question.)

This probably wouldn’t have come to my attention at all if the news feed hadn’t bunched the headline together with the text, so that what I originally read was all one uninterrupted line:

Death Writer and translator Tetsu Yano died on October 13th…

Maybe it was that I’d just finished reading the feed for Neil Gaiman’s journal, since Gaiman, too, is something of a Death writer/translator. Maybe it’s just the way my mind works. The idea of the Grim Reaper, visiting Tokyo, in desperate need of a translator, amuses me.