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Indoor Tomatoes
As anyone who follows me on social media is aware (or even just anyone who has been in a room with me for more than five minutes) this year I have been growing a lot of different types of tomatoes. I have of course grown tomatoes before - in the ground, in pots, in containers, and in greenhouses. But none of those methods have worked out ( Read more... ) -
Books Read In 2013
I once again kept a list on MobileRead of all the new books I finished during the year. In 2011 I read 63 new books, in 2012 I read 58 and in 2013 I read... 56 ( Read more... ) -
Books Read In 2012
Oops. While I did keep a list at MobileRead of all the new books I finished in 2012, I forgot to post it up here in January. Oh well, better late than never ( Read more... ) -
Publicising a niche event in Ireland
At every SF/Fantasy/Anime/Comics/Gaming event I go to, people mention really great publicity channels to me. And whenever someone running an event asks for publicity ideas, I can't for the life of me think of anything other than "put up a poster in Forbidden Planet ( Read more... ) -
Not A New Year's Resolution
I don't do New Year's Resolutions. I demand the freedom to make a resolution in March and stick to it for as long as I damn well feel like it.* But last January some of the MobileRead site members decided to track how many books they had read. And I realised I had no idea how many new books I read in a year.
I reread a lot. I mean, a lot. I will ( Read more... ) -
Placebo effects
At Octocon (OMG, so awesome! Everyone go next year!), after the The Science of Horror panel I was ranting talking to some people about the amazing, weird, complicated phenomenon known as The Placebo Effect. So here are some links on the topic:
How can you regulate doping in sport when just thinking you have been given a painkiller releases a ( Read more... ) -
I Swear, I Am Not Making This Up
Saw this movie description tonight while channel hopping:
Face of Fear: "A mountaineer who lost his nerve, but gained psychic abilities in a climbing accident, is targeted by a serial killer who stalks him 40 storeys up in a skyscraper."
How could I resist?
As I switched on about an hour into the movie, I don't know why Our Hero stored all of his ( Read more... ) -
Sitcom Terminology
Bill Prady is an executive producer on one of My Favourite Things, the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. We have a deep and meaningful relationship (i.e. I follow him on Twitter). Yesterday, he tweeted a series of TV Writers' Room vocab lessons:- A story, the main story of the episode; B story, the secondary story; runner, smaller than a story, it "runs ( Read more... )
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Ow, my eye
So I was reading Juliet E McKenna's SFX article Everyone Can Promote Equality In Genre Writing, cheerfully nodding along with everything she said while comfortable in the knowledge that there wasn't much I could do to impact the situation one way or another, when I remembered that I choose the books for a weekly drop-in SF&F book club.
Eep.
I pulled ( Read more... ) -
Just popping by....
So what have I been up to for the last year and a bit? I freaked out, joined the Army, went into business for myself... I'm a professional killer.
Oh wait, no. That's John Cusack in Grosse Point Blank.
Well, if you had a lot of time on your hands you could find out via my Twitter timeline. But if you have a life of your own, the summary is that I did ( Read more... )