Perhaps the best film adaptation of a Nebula-nominated science fiction story.

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Dad died on Monday morning. My brother and I have been dealing all the initial bureaucracy that we need to get done before the week's up. Moving his belongings to storage. That kind of stuff. In the midst of all the up-and-down emotions surrounding death ( Read more... )

From supergee comes a link to this description of what happened to LJ yesterday.

"The best analogy I can think of is that it’d be like you dealing with a water main break in your basement by hooking a big hose up to the leaking joint and redirecting the water into your neighbor’s basement instead."BlueSecurity suffered from a huge denial-of-service attack ( Read more... )

It's odd being the son of a father who's mentally off, mentally ill, mentally retarded. He was my hero when I was a kid, more than he was to my brothers. I got stuck with him more deeply than they did ( Read more... )

Dad's in Hospice. Medical personnel guess he'll last anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. He's on the way out ( Read more... )

"Hey, Maya!" I said ( Read more... )

I have located a nursing home a few miles from our house in Denver for my dad, and will move him down from Boulder sometime in the next few days. In the meantime he's still in the hospital with pneumonia. We thought he'd be released later today, but his doc says "In a few days" instead ( Read more... )

"Don't stick your finger in my armpit when I'm hugging your mom."

Okay, a guaranteed snark-free day from me. I gotta stop that stuff ( Read more... )

I have a feeling that the red states are about to do a flip-flop. Instead of suppressing sex and being the denial queens of the century, they'll just do it the muscular-Christian American way and turn porn into a professional sport ( Read more... )