So things are getting bad again and I’ve started to track my blood glucose with this little glucose monitor thing to see if I can learn anything. What I really want to track is insulin but you can’t track insulin without a lab test so glucose will have to do. You can mostly infer insulin [...]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
for repeatedly quoting shit from this series of essays. But I read a couple of them every day, for a break, and I keep being struck by them. So here’s another: For instance, the other day I recalled a famous passage from Adam Smith that I wanted to cite: something about an earthquake in China. [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
It’s the business of a writer to think about the future. While I’m not a writer, I do know a few, such as the lovely and talented Eden, who just got published in M-Brane, and Pam, who just sold her first story to Asimov’s (forthcoming), which is kind of like hitting a grand slam in [...]
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The other day at the redoubtable Snap Fitness I overheard a conversation the likes of which I’d overheard many times before. It went something like this: x: If I want to talk to somebody, I just call them. y: I know. x: And most of the stuff people are texting, it’s just stupid. “I’m going [...]
You just have to. Elan will especially appreciate this. (via kottke.)
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So I was hacking around and I found the source code to myself. As it turns out I’m written in Lisp, which is good in most ways but bad because I can’t interface with other libraries and because most people can’t understand me. Still, I figured I’d share a few things I’ve learned. This function, [...]
Not to put too fine a point on it, our house is old and falling apart and in a shitty part of town. When I go into the basement I always think the house is on the verge of collapse: the concrete on the floor is hollow from having water frozen under it, the concrete [...]
For those of you who liked the last post, this is pure internet gold: Gladwell meets The Sports Guy! In _three_ parts! Good god, Peaches just exploded!
Finally a bit of good news: after a shitload of behind-the-scenes effort,Brain Harvest launches today. Brain Harvest is an online speculative fiction magazine run by Clarion West superstars Eden Robins, Caren Gussoff, and myself, with an emphasis on the short-short: fiction between 100 and 750 words. As editors of Brain Harvest, we want to publish [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Well, I have just come across some information that pretty much guarantees the pilot episode of “A Game of Thrones” will get picked up for at least a full first season. The producers of the pilot are posting on the Westeros message boards and they have just revealed that the pilot’s final line of dialogue before [...]