http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/11/07/16449

A week from yesterday I was on the verge of fiery yet soggy death.  I was driving up to FenCon, and every time my car hit standing water, it hydroplaned and fishtailed and basically tried to kill me.  After a harrowing weekend of driving, I came home to Houston, took my car in for an alignment and a couple of tires, and it drove fine ( Read more... )

Animated Steampunk with fighting aliens and a voice cast made up of Adam Baldwin + the cast of Highlander.

Are they trying to kill me?

http://www.wotw-goliath.com/video_trailer.html

I've been accused of being a little comma happy.  While that may be true, I think many people leave out commas that could make their writing a bit more clear.

Sars at Tomato Nation published a lovely entry in defense of the Oxford Comma.

Crappy day, and then I see this:

http://www.gunsnreligion.com/extras/2008/12/19/twsor-39/

I had planned to spend the whole weekend baking, but things didn't quite work out that way.  I had ApolloCon yesterday afternoon, which pretty much tanked the whole day.  chuckybones  and valgrl came over last night and helped me break in the new hot chocolate pot.  Sweet merciful heavens!

So today, to make up for the laziness of yesterday, I've been a baking ( Read more... )

It is one of the great joys in my life that my niece is turning into a lover of spec fiction.  I dragged her and her mother (my older sister) to FenCon back in October, and got her stocked up, but I'm constantly on the lookout for new books that she might like.  Her birthday is in a couple of weeks, and I'd like to get her a new stack to enjoy ( Read more... )

For all of the Houston folk on my list, Lush now has a store at Baybrook Mall, and inside the Macy's at Memorial City and the Galleria.

I am beyond stoked :)

We'll start with the ApolloCon stuff.  For those who don't know, I've taken on the role of Programming for ApolloCon 2009.  I'm more than a little nervous at  the thought of following in kgkofmel's footsteps, but I think we have some great stuff already in the works for this year.  Our first programming brainstorm session is this Saturday, at 3pm at the ( Read more... )

It looks like the office isn't going to open until Wednesday.  All things considered, that's probably a good idea.  Good thing  I've got water again :)