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Posted on entry Charles N. Brown, 1937-2009 ::: July 13, 2009, 05:41 PM:
I saw him at Readercon just this weekend and he was his usual self.

I'm quite speechless.

And what Tom Whitmore said about him too.
Posted on entry Two things ::: June 30, 2009, 06:14 PM:
re: "enormous jets of water vapor and ice"

Hey! The image is a painting by Karl Kofed! Woo woo!
Posted on entry Elf Help, a Parlor Bookstore Game ::: June 30, 2009, 06:08 PM:
Concerned about security?
The Demolished Man
Posted on entry D-Day ::: June 06, 2009, 07:21 PM:
Having visited Normandy, having been to Pointe de Hoc .... I am in awe of what was accomplished.

Posted on entry Voicemail fail ::: May 21, 2009, 05:47 PM:
Velma @23 and Xopher @ 26:

It's the rush talking of the phone number, as if that's going to save them a penny or some fraction in their phone all.

It's amazing the number of long detailed voicemails I'll get and then have the phone number left as almost a
Charles de Lint signature
Posted on entry Voicemail fail ::: May 21, 2009, 02:58 PM:
Evan Goer @ 10: "It also won't let you delete a message until you've heard the entire thing."

This works with my cell and desk phone: press 3 twice, quickly. That takes me to the end of the message where I can do with it as I wish.
Posted on entry Voicemail fail ::: May 21, 2009, 12:21 PM:
In 4 weeks I've had 8 phone calls here at work, and 4 of them were personal.

What I hate are the messages were at the end the sender rushes through their phone number resulting in 4 or 5 replays of the message to try to figure out the number.
Posted on entry Tax Protest ::: May 18, 2009, 03:09 PM:
The book Toni at #18 refers to is published by the University of Michigan Press - there are links to other interviews and the like at their page.

Posted on entry "But this is good!" "Well, then, it's not SF." ::: April 21, 2009, 10:58 AM:
His memoir Miracles of Life make it pretty clear his early relationship to SF.

Posted on entry "But this is good!" "Well, then, it's not SF." ::: April 21, 2009, 10:45 AM:
#17: "And in this corner are all the pre-1984 DAW books."

Would that be yellow journalism ?
Posted on entry "But this is good!" "Well, then, it's not SF." ::: April 21, 2009, 10:14 AM:
I"m not surprised by Weil's comments. Consider this from Philip Roth writing about his alt-history novel The Plot Against America:

"I had no literary models for reimagining the historical past."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E7DB1338F93AA2575AC0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
Posted on entry Watch Now! ::: March 12, 2009, 02:39 PM:
It is stunning.

Best piece of advertising for the mover. Ever.

Sill Warner.
Posted on entry Breaking news, 7:11 ET ::: October 13, 2008, 12:26 PM:
This is certainly interesting:
http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
Posted on entry Let’s not always see the same hands ::: September 25, 2008, 03:13 PM:
Well, that's certainly "special" ....
Posted on entry Home ::: August 12, 2008, 12:35 PM:
Sigh. Yet another party I missed.
Posted on entry Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008 ::: July 08, 2008, 05:32 PM:
#92 ::: Mike Emery
"Disch is not the only person active in sf who ended his life with a gun. Alice Sheldon and Walter M. Miller Jr. also went this way."

Also: H. Beam Piper.
Posted on entry The Libertarian Party: racism for smart people ::: July 08, 2008, 07:42 AM:
Looks like the Barr piece slipped in from some alternate history.
Posted on entry "We did this. This is what we can do." ::: May 27, 2008, 10:25 AM:
At Balticon Elspeth Kover, Robin Johnson (yes, from Tasmania) And I were in the bar watching this on CNN.

Pretty spiffy. We do live in a science fictional world.
Posted on entry Little Brother ::: April 27, 2008, 11:34 AM:
This arrived today and goes out to a lot of libraries:

http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080427

It's an amusing strip dealing with life & adventures in a library. And yes, it's quite amusing.
Posted on entry Little Brother ::: April 17, 2008, 02:24 PM:
Curious ... how much spam has littlebrother.offer@gmail.com received in the short time it's been online?

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