Because I still get name-checked on LJ now and again, it occurs to me that I should update this page with some current links, so you know where to find me if you come here from elsewhere in LJ and think to yourself, "Why hasn't this coot updated his LJ since 2007?" So, you can find me at wordstudio.net, where my personal blog resides. You can also ( Read more... )

It's occurred to me that my LJ syndication probably doesn't work any more. The gracious and generous Canuck, Ian Watson, was kind enough to set up LJ syndication for me back in the day, so I don't know how to do it myself. Anyone know how best to syndicate my blog at thegist.wordstudio.net for LJ readers?

Books are oxygen. I need them to live. It's hard for me to just give them up ( Read more... )

Thanks to people who know LJ much, much better than I do (etherlad), you can now get a reliable RSS feed from my new, regular blog delivered to the LJ interface you know and love. That address: thegist_willh.

I have no idea if I'll get comments posted to that feed or not. I don't know how anything works. Update: Another person who is smarter than I (adamjury) tells me that ( Read more... )

ATTENTION!
Update your bookmarks, boys and girls, 'cause this page is on the move. For the visible future I will be keeping my blog (now with a pun-free title) at WordPress.com. Find it here:

http://thegist.wordpress.comYou'll find a new RSS feed there, too, for those of you who are into such things. Want to know why I'm switching (or ( Read more... )

When free books are read aloud by John Hodgman, also for free, they are double-blessed. How it slipped by me, I don't know (I blame my lack of internet access for the past three days), but apparently John Hodgman's excellent audiobook version of Areas of My Expertise is now free at the iTunes store. If you finish this sentence without clicking over ( Read more... )

This is how much I can tell you in one minute of typing ( Read more... )

I confess...

• I cannot spell the word definitely without checking a dictionary. I don't know why.
  
  
• I don't know what a tablespoon looks like. Whenever a recipe calls for ingredients in a number of tablespoons, I eyeball it. I am often wrong.
  
  
• I fall back on the phrase, "I'm from the Midwest, and we..." about 630% more often than I should. This is ( Read more... )

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I would have only a couple of hours in San Francisco. For a long time, it's been one of my favorite American cities. I can find plenty to do with a couple of hours in San Francisco, but this time I wanted to hunt down a couple of bookstores that I know princeofcairo has recommended in the past. So I give him a call on my cell in Sacramento and he tells me where ( Read more... )