I hear I’ve been hacked by a blog spammer, which for some reason isn’t visible to me. I think it may only show up for people using RSS?

In any case, this is

a) an apology; I didn’t realize you were seeing it!

b) a warning; I’m going to be messing around with my setup to see if I can fix this problem after Shabbat, and the site may be down for a ( Read more... )

This week’s reading:

In the Teeth of the Evidence, Dorothy L. Sayers
The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter
New England White, Stephen L. Carter
A Bait of Dreams, Jo Clayton
Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris
The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin

What a terrific reading week! First, I found a collection of non-Wimsey Sayers short stories ( Read more... )

I didn’t post about this, because I was too damn upset. But now you get the retroactive de-upsetted version.

See, I’ve been working on this research project for the past two years. I’m right on the verge of publishing, with some very cool results. (Yes, yes, you can have details, but that’s another post.) Then, last week, I caught an error on ( Read more... )

For the last two weeks, I’ve been following the One Hundred Pushups program. It’s basically a six-week training course that takes A NINETY NINE POUND WEAKLING AND TURNS YOU INTO … oh, wait. Mostly the program just gets you to the point where you can do a hundred pushups in a row.

While I’m not in terrible shape, this is not exactly something I ( Read more... )

This week’s reading:

Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers
Clouds of Witness, Dorothy L. Sayers
Unnatural Death, Dorothy L. Sayers
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy L. Sayers
Strong Poison, Dorothy L. Sayers
Five Red Herrings, Dorothy L. Sayers
Have His Carcase, Dorothy L. Sayers
Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
The Nine Tailors, ( Read more... )

Checking my email this afternoon, after a long morning with my wireless virtuously off, I find three different rejection notices. A conference paper I wanted to present has been turned down; a paper I wrote didn’t make it into a journal; my application for a mentoring program was rejected.

This is the kind of thing I might ordinarily be upset ( Read more... )

So, it just occurred to me that not all of you can read my mind, and that I probably should point out that the boy and I are jointly offering an item in the Live Long And Marry Livejournal auction. For a donation to the cause of marriage equality, he and I will write you a role-playing scenario, suitable for play with your home group, at a con, or ( Read more... )

This week's reading:

Daddy's Girl, Lisa Scottoline
Consent to Kill, Vince Flynn
Act of Treason, Vince Flynn
Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis
Perelandra, C. S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Northwest of Earth, C. L. Moore
The Screwtape ( Read more... )

This week's reading:

The Economic Naturalist, Thomas Frank
Prophet, Mike Resnick
What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson
Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel
The Dragon Charmer, Jan Siegel
The Witch Queen, Jan Siegel
One Door Away From Heaven, Dean Koontz
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson
Whodunit, ed. Philip Pullman ( Read more... )

This week’s reading:

Mayday, Nelson DeMille & Thomas Block
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
Darwin’s Radio, Greg Bear
Queen of the Country, dgk goldberg
The Devil You Know, Mike Carey
Cart and Cwidder, Diana Wynne Jones
Drowned Ammet, Diana Wynne Jones
The Spellcoats, Diana Wynne Jones
The Crown of ( Read more... )