Set in the same San Antonio 'verse as Pins and High and Left.

( When Elisabeth goes to college, she is totally going to major in history. )

Set in the same 'verse as High and Left.

( The quincea͠ňera dress her mother and aunts shoved her into last April turned her into an ugly, cube-shaped fuschia meringue. )

( The whistle blows, and the ball flies into the air. Mia tracks it from a half-crouch, fingers pulsing every time a red shirt gets possession. )

So, yeah, I just wrote a technical presentation on various kinds of sonars, including synthetic aperture sonar.

And, uh, I may have put a few Aperture Laboratories easter eggs in it.

If nothing else, it will be interesting to see who are the gamers in the audience.....

First off, we hope you survived the night.  If you had a loved one who was killed, our hearts go out to you.  Those of you who lost your homes in the fires and floods, we hope you have somewhere warm, safe, and dry to go ( Read more... )

In lieu of yet another post titled "I'm not dead," "Still not dead," or some glass-half-empty variation of that theme, I submit to you that if you shove a mirror under my nose, it fogs.  More specifically it fogs more frequently when I am awake than when I am asleep.

I've suspected for some time that I've been developing sleep apnea...I don't snore ( Read more... )

The only movie I have ever seen that was even close to that level of pure, utter obscenity was The Lives of Others.

I want to hurt somebody.

So, this weekend.....

I get to start culling, start packing, work from home, make casseroles to freeze for when my sister has her kid, get the farrier to see my pony AGAIN, etc.

It's 5:30 on Friday.  Ready, set, GO.

Okay, here we go ( Read more... )

Fact: bacon is tasty and the cook puts out bacon every morning for brekkie. I ate bacon every day this past week except yesterday (pop tarts ( Read more... )