In preparation for the move to Houston, I've now (today was my last day) quit the job I've held for 19 years. I haven't quite seen the store for the last time -- still need to get my paycheck on Monday -- but no more hours on the time card. Feels kind of weird.

I hear there's going to be a print collection of Kazu Kibuishi's wonderful webcomic Copper.

The protagonist is Echo, and there are Alpha, Sierra, and Victor. I'm guessing, however, that Golf and Hotel aren't going to be important to the story.

brooksmoses reflects on page-of-book memes and asks, "What's the closest book to you right now? Why is it there?"

Well, the closest book to me right now is Jo's Lifelode which I ordered from NESFA Press and just came in the mail today. I'm terribly curious how Jo revised the ending from the draft I read, and I really can't allow myself to read it until I'm ( Read more... )

So as you all know, Katie got her degree last year and has been looking for a job.

On Friday she called me up at work and asked me, "Do you want to move to Houston?"
I replied, "Not especially, but if that's where you're going I'm coming with you."

Good thing I haven't yet bought plane tickets to Worldcon.

Unfortunately Hlavaty can no longer claim perfection.

Ganked from kourediosFrom Joe at RevSF: Since the memes will not stop until morale improves, we at RevolutionSF.com take a stand ( Read more... )

For the sake of anybody who cares, here's a list of what I read last year.

(I also had subscriptions to The Bridge World, Science News, Chess Life, The ACBL Bulletin, and Asimov's Science Fiction, all of which I read pretty much as they arrived...plus various blogs and newsgroups ( Read more... )

On rec.arts.sf.composition, the topic of humor came up. I mentioned a theory I have, that there are at least four different pathways in the brain that trigger the same reward mechanism (i.e., laughter). zeborahnz asked me to expand on this, and I wound up writing a fairly long essay (someone on rasfc said "This isn't your Ph.D thesis?")...which I want to ( Read more... )

Katie tells me that she has now received signature pages from all four of her committee members, and plans to submit her thesis tomorrow morning. At which point she will be doneShe tells me that the office where you file a thesis gives out lollipops...with "Ph.D" on the wrapper ( Read more... )