I can't remember if I mentioned it here, but most of you who read this will have seen me mention it elsewhere, anyway. I've been working on an audio version of Jo Walton's Barrayaran Tam Lin play. Well, it's finally done, and now has its own web site: http://www.tamlinplay.net/Read more... )

Anyone interested in hearing a dramatic reading of Alice in Wonderland, narrated by me, can download it for free from the LibriVox catalog. It's in the public domain. Total run time for 12 chapters is a bit under three hours ( Read more... )

It's time for my annual post listing the books I read last year. Total number is up a bit from last year, because I count plays, and I had a number of those since I've been doing recording for http://librivox.org/ . I also read a bunch of new comics each week; I don't list those, or graphic ( Read more... )

The music is a little overboard, but still...what a cool thing to do.

Someone on Making Light mentioned a site called LibriVox. It's a sort of Project Gutenberg for audiobooks: people record public-domain texts and release their recordings also into the public domain. I've just finished recording the part of Richard Planagenet (Richard III's father; people who've played Kingmaker will remember "Richard of York") ( Read more... )

Katie is working late on something, so I have made a gazpacho soup recipe that she really likes. I just hope she won't be too tired to appreciate it. (There's always tomorrow, of course.)

Just back from a week in St. Louis playing bridge with my birth father. (There must be something to genetics: not only do we both play duplicate bridge [and nobody in my adoptive family does], we even both like weak notrumps ( Read more... )

Like many geeks, I have as one of my favorite movies Monty Python and the Holy Grail. If you've seen it, you remember Dennis the Peasant holding forth about class struggle. (If you don't, watch it on YouTube here.) I recently wrote an essay trying to analyze as much as I could about what's going on in his speech, in accordance with my theory of ( Read more... )

The lightning and the thunder and the pouring rain!

For a lot of last week I was bothered by a sore muscle in my neck that restricted my range of motion. On Monday I broke down and spent $10 on a bottle of Advil. So of course on Tuesday, before I had the chance to take any of the pills, my neck felt much better.