My replacement laptop arrived at the office today. It has a 60 Gb hard drive. I plugged an ethernet cable in the back, fired her up, and transferred 30 Gb of music files straight from my desktop machine to the new machine. Slick as slime. I'm ready to
Crowds are cheering in the streets in Baghdad. And my brother hasn't gone over there yet, though he still may. With luck, all his combat engineering unit will have to do is build things. Let's hope.
Well, it looks like the war in the Middle East is winding down. Or is it? From Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo I was directed to a fascinating article by conservative writer Ken Jowitt from the latest issue of Policy Review. Jowitt's article, "Rage, Hubris,
In other, happier news, I got a welcome phone call today between bouts of working myself into a lather. Our insurance claim agent called to compliment me on my burglary report and to tell me she would be approving our claim immediately. We'll get the full cost of
My mother doesn't forward religious emails to me very often any more, not since I asked her to cease and desist last year. But on occasion she still does, and today's incensed me like none I've received since ... well, last year: Subject: Comforting to
A rather, um, incredible story from the Weekly World News: "Time traveler" busted for insider tradingSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on
Oh, yes, I just love to get letters like this one: hey, watsup hows it goin? I was just wondering what the hell you think your doing here. What the hell is your goal in life; is it to be some bum, that complains about his life and blames everything
My pal Mark Bourne, a liberal Portland writer of SF and other good things, offered this eminently sensible tongue-lashing to disruptive antiwar protesters in a guest commentary column published in yesterday's Oregonian: Limbaugh's loving every minute of itIf you engage in knee-jerk belligerence while
Shawna McCarthy just emailed to tell me she's buying my story "Divided by Time" for Realms of Fantasy! This gives me two stories in the pipeline at Realms and three in the pipeline overall. More breathing room! Yes!
It's eighteen days since the burglary, and I've only just now finished writing out my account of the event for our insurance claim. Boy, does my hand hurt. They wanted detail. I gave them detail. I'll try to hit the highlights, because I feel
Yesterday I received my judging materials for the 2003 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (SF/Fantasy category). I have forty-odd manuscripts to read and grade in the next couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to diving in, but I also suspect that by the end of it
Tom Marzullo at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31702: We have hit the various compounds and facilities in that urban area with great precision, seeking to spare the populace from harm. Yet in ignoring the publicly announced paradigm of our enemy, we are in all likelihood
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