Posts under ‘Fun stuff’

A while ago now NPR polled its readers online for what they thought the best 100 SFF books were. The list is a bit odd, with some series combined and other represented by one or two individual entries, but it was interesting nonetheless. My friends promptly turned it into a meme, and I eventually got [...]

I have an enormous backlog of half-finished articles, links and videos and cool things, brilliant ideas, flash fictions that fade in the middle… I haven’t had time or internet access sufficient to get them all out to you. It actually isn’t due to spending all my time on Google+, honest. See above, lack of internet [...]

The Emperor sneezed. Even the torrential downpour hadn’t settled the spring pollen. Curse those catilies! Everyone planted them for the vibrant pink blooms, but he was violently allergic. There should be a law. The Emperor looked down at the paper he held. No, ninety decrees was enough, even if he’d forgotten the catily flowers. One [...]

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These are the things I had intended to post this morning when I got sidetracked. (By “this morning,” I mean “Monday”, and by “sidetracked,” I mean “completely swamped.” Just so you know.) XKCD has a timeline of future events. SF writers, there’s an entire career’s worth of ideas in here. You have to go there, [...]

Need a space program? Start your own! To add to the cheer, more short-sighted behavior: Governor Corbett’s new Pennsylvania state budget cuts the funding for Penn State and other state universities by over 50%. Yes, the economy is bad. Yes, the state and nation do not have as much money as they’d like. Cutting education [...]

And goodbye February. I’ve never gotten along with that month. In fact, I blame it for a lot of things. Good riddance until next year. I was moderately productive in February, in the writing department. I finished and revised two short stories, and am just waiting on my beta reader before I submit them. I [...]

(via Neil Gaiman)

But there is sharing of earworms.