Day: February 1, 2010

“I like pie.”

Today wasn’t a particularly exciting Monday, just your average back-to-work-after-the-weekend sort of day. We had a quick meeting about a conference I won’t be attending next month in Chicago, and everyone was amused to discover there would apparently be “PIE Sessions” there. Though I’m now disappointed to learn that stands for “Participant Information Exchange,” which seems a poor substitute for actual pie.

And that’s really about it, the limit to the excitement I saw today.

Monday various

  • Sad to learn that author Kage Baker passed away from cancer over the weekend.
  • Not terribly surprised to learn that Sarah Palin’s political action committee spent more money buying her book than on, well, political action.
  • Very surprised to learn that packs of wild beagles are terrorizing the east end of Long Island.
  • Impressed by James Cameron’s letter to H.R. Giger’s agent about why Cameron didn’t involve Giger in the design and filming of Aliens. Where’s this kind of honest humility gone in the James Cameron of today?
  • And finally, very impressed by Chameleon Circuit, who put out some of the best Doctor Who-themed music I’ve ever heard. That might sound like I’m damning them with faint praise, to some of you, but I think these are really neat songs. One of them easily wound up on my January music mix. [via]