I am just now starting to see the light of day from the material that accumulated while I was gone (although I have cracked only one of the six books that arrived in my absence). Most of my family is off in different directions this weekend, giving me a sparse and quiet house for the […]
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Posting will be sporadic in the near future as travel and related matters will leave me with limited or no internet access. Thus, a few parting tidbits: PC World gives us the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. I admit that I have dealt with those ranked 1 (AOL), 2 (Real Player), 4 (Windows […] Various links and marginalia accumulated over the last week or so: It took Chad at Clean Cut Kid to bring to my attention that today is Bob Dylan’s 65th birthday. I join Chad in saying happy birthday Bob and add wishes for many, many more. My MinusCar friend got a visitor via one of the […] Two former Stampede teammates — Buffalo’s Thomas Vanek and Carolina’s Chad LaRose — will face each other in the Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals. They are the first two Stampede alum to play in the NHL. Game 1 in the series is Saturday afternoon on NBC. How not to treat your guest of honor. The […] Pyr, the relatively new and top-notch SF imprint of Prometheus Books, has launched its own blog called Pyr-o-mania. Joe Haldeman’s Camouflage woon the Nebula Award for best novel. And while I don’t usually follow this award, Serenity won for best script. Erica Wagner has a nice concise piece in Sunday’s UK Times on the purpose […] |
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