I'm considering changing the subtitle of this blog. Currently (on LJ only), it's subtitled "A More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy". But sometimes one just has to freshen up. Here's a few options, let me know what you think. Also bonus for anyone who wants to illustrate any of these comments. Best illustration will win a free book (or two).
Poll #1430120 Blog subtitle
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 69 Which subtitle best represents this blog? [ This post is LJ-only, for obvious reasons ]
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A reader reacts to METAtropolis, and specifically to "In the Forests of the Night"
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pabba draws authors he loves to read
Battlestar Sumpsonica — Um. Wow.
Sonoma XP — Bad Astronomy Blog on the reality behind the Windows XP screen. I always thought it looked like the Teletubbies set, myself.
Universe May Not Be "Fine-Tuned" for Life — Interesting stuff on the anthropic principle.
Alien para-tetrapods of Snaiad — Speculative zoology on the hoof, so to speak.
Mail hoarding — Wow.
India seeks rupee status symbol — Interesting discussion of the problems of introducing a new symbol to typography.
?otD: Where does it hurt?
4/17/2009 Body movement: urban walking all day This morning's weigh-in: n/a (traveling) Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville; The Solitudes by John Crowley
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safewrite with a very nice Booklist review of The Best of Abyss & Apex, v.1
willyumtx sends a link to a robot that will make you die of teh cute
Ninja suit helps one-flipper turtle swim — (Thanks to lillypond.)
Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams writes to say that the brown dwarf post I referenced yesterday has been amended to correct some errors-of-calculation — As Paul said in his email to me, "Dr. Iorio made a serious calculation error and a brown dwarf or red dwarf is now feasible much closer than he originally stated." Win for science in the blogosphere. And thanks, Paul.
Speeding up financial analysis — Technology Review on stream computing.
?otD: How high?
4/16/2009 Body movement: urban walking all day This morning's weigh-in: n/a (traveling) Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville; The Solitudes by John Crowley
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This is a test post. In the event of a real post, you would not be informed that this is a test post. Talk amongst yourself.
ETA: Testing whether a post edit suppresses the LJ f-list view.
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Starship Sofa with, among many other good things, a podcast of my flash piece “A Conspiracy of Dentists”
The Fix reviews The Best of Abyss & Apex
Amazon Aims at Content Delivery — Interesting future state stuff.
APOD with a photo of the smiling heavens
Polar opposites — Some coverage of the possibly imminent (in geological terms) flipping of the Earth’s magnetic field. (Thanks to lt260.)
And for LJ readers, because flist display of my posts continues intermittently borked, something which I’m told wasn’t visible to everyone the first time:
The writing career meme
If you’ve missed recent link salads, believe me, they’ve been there. Try this.
?otD: I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
12/03/08
Body movement: 30 minutes on stationary bike
This morning’s weigh-in: 223.2
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
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My posts are appearing and disappearing from flist views more or less at random. I'm going to backlink a recent post here, since LJ has decided it is no longer worthy of flist display.
[writing] Those things we protect as if they were our lives
And just in case it pulls the same damned trick with the next post:
[personal] Getting myself neutered
Grr.
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I’ll post a report about yesterday’s signing later, I’m running very behind this morning. In brief, good travel, good socializing, good book-ness. Working today, then in town for dinner with some Seattle peeps. Can someone send me the directions to tonight’s Clarion West party?
Also, I haven’t forgotten the Steampunk Abecedary. I just need a catch up day or two before I can deal with that. I’m also on two important revision deadlines between now and the end of the month, and heading off to LaunchPad. So, um, probably not a lot of blogging for the next few days.
In case you missed it, open question thread here: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ].
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ETA: If you found this page directly and are wondering what this is about, see the explanatory post here.
Poll #1227385 Book buying habits
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 153 Did you buy books before the Internet was generally available? In those olden times, how did you select your bookstore purchases? How much did cover art influence you?
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Schools Struggle With Dark Writings — Wow, this article is disturbing on a number of levels. If my mental health was being judged based on my fiction, they’d never let me out. It happened to me once, that I wrote a story which scared an instructor so much I was blackballed from a program. You might know that little piece as “The Goat Cutter.” (Thanks to willyumtx.)
In which I ask for your opinion on my greatest hits
Another Internet doppelganger surfaces — It’s amazing how I get around.
Thai Ladyboy Test — I scored a 90%. I think that’s good. (Thanks to willyumtx.)
Baby Supernova ID’d in Milky Way — They’re so cuuuute.
BMW GINA — A fabric-skinned automobile. Which is oddly reminiscent of BMW’s original business line, building engines for WWI era fabric-skinned aircraft. (Thanks to sheelangig.)
Photo of a frilled shark — Fascinating but sad story attached.
54 sickened at hospital after farmer’s chemical-fuelled vomit generates toxic gas — That’s like something out of cyberpunk. (Thanks to willyumtx.)
Right Wing Bloggers Employ Investigative Journalism “Skills” to Skim Documents — nomissnewo has some fun at the expense of people who are far too easy to make fun of. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch, either.
Ex-Clark Co. GOP chief admits performing oral sex on a sleeping man — As the story notes, the perp was also chairman of the Young Republican National Federation. This is why gay marriage must be opposed at all costs! Because Republicans just can’t control themselves without a Constitutional amendment! Mmm, family values.
6/13/08
Time in saddle: 0 minutes (still recovering from surgery)
Last night’s weigh-out: n/a
This morning’s weigh-in: 262.2
Currently reading: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia [ Amazon ]
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Stealing a page from arcaedia, I have a question primarily directed at long-time readers of this blog. (Or anyone who understands my tagging system, I suppose.)
It’s almost the fourth anniversary of this blog in its current form (ignoring my recent switch to WordPress with an LJ echo). First post is here, from July 14th, 2004. I’ve made 5,810 posts since then, offered 12,093 comments and had 41,476 made to me.
In all that time, what are your favorite posts? I’m mostly thinking about writing process, but it might be polls, travelogs, kid-related, whatever? If I were to put together a list of 15-20 “greatest hits” links, what would it look like?
Bonus question: who should I be reading that I’m not?
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This is getting pretty cool. Drop over to read, contribute something of your own, or add to an existing snippet.
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I propose a small joint fiction project here: a walker's guide to the city of Axqa. Axqa exists nowhere except in this blog, and is here only for our enjoyment. I shall make the first entry in comments. You are invited to add your own entries, emendations and commentary. Corrections and additions to one another's entries are encouraged, within the bounds of civility and the limits of the shared unreality of Axqa.
Have at it!
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I apologize for the magical bouncing LJ theme (in the graphical sense), but my old one is busted. The one I've tried for the last few days is rather annoying. We'll see if this one works.
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Are people having the comment threading problem on their LJs? This is enough to drive me to WordPress or some such, with an LJ feed.
ETA: It was a problem with my style. I've selected a new style, as advised, and lost a great deal of customization, but comments work correctly. How the old style, which was stable for several years, suddenly melted is beyond me.
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The LJ comment feature has lost all its mad threading skillz, which makes it very difficult for me to answer the open questions. Whenever our bloggy masters get this fixed I'll resume answering.
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Hey Portland (or Seattle) peeps. Any idea where I can buy a button machine in PDX or SEA as a walk-in customer?
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Spotted via scalzi's Whatever, Robin Hobb on the perils of blogging.
pnh talks crazy in response, to wit: "...it seems to me possible that for some writers, blogging is a time sink and a creative drain, while for others it's a source of connection, energy, and inspiration."
Man, these writers. People who blog too much have no one but themselves... erm...
I'll just get me coat, shall I?
Poll #1153573 Does Jay blog too much?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 80 Does Jay blog too much?
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pleased
grumpy
curious
tired