Things that do not inspire confidence, number one: All of the lights on my hallway are off. I don’t think it’s an electrical problem, since the lights in my office work. It does, however, create the vague impression that I’m working in some kind of horror movie set.
Things that do not inspire confidence, [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | No Comments »>This week’s issue of Strange Horizons is the last issue for 2007–our regular end-of-year hiatus is two weeks this year, for arcane calendaring reasons. This week’s issue also has a new episode of the podcast, featuring an interview with Maggie Hogarth, in which we have a great time talking about how the internet is [...]
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Posted in science fiction | 11 Comments »>Strange Horizons needs someone who understands Movable Type to look at
(and fix) something for us. It’s a one-time troubleshooting thing,
fixing some blog templates, something that really won’t take you long
if you have any experience with MT, and it would help us a lot. Email
me (groppi@gmail.com) if you think you can help. [...]
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Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>There’s a particular kind of sinking feeling that comes when your computer dies. Sometimes it’s a slow build, the gradual recognition that a particular noise or behavioral quirk is actually a sign that something’s wrong. In this particular case, there was no such ambiguity. Saturday morning, bright and early, I sat down [...]
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Posted in personal | 4 Comments »>I had a dream last night that I was trying to present a conference paper in someone’s living room. It was a nice living room, but a little cluttered, and I kept having trouble getting my computer hooked up to the television display. The paper was apparently one with a lot of visuals [...]
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Posted in personal | 1 Comment »>It’s times like this–having spent a lot of the first day of the semester worrying that I’d broken the scanner that a colleague so graciously lent me, and then in the middle of ferrying back and forth to the library in search of a book with a better image of cuneiform tablets, suddenly remembering that [...]
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Posted in academic | 1 Comment »>There are days when everything works, when all the little clockwork cogs and gears of the daily routine come together in perfect rhythm.
And then there are days when somewhere around one in the afternoon you realize that you’re spacy and you have a splitting headache, and then shortly after you realize that all you’ve eaten [...]
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Posted in personal | 1 Comment »>I don’t think it’s going to surprise anyone who knows me to know that I’m extremely attached to my computer. All of my different types of work and most of my play depend on the computer. It’s a big responsibility for such a small machine, and I try to show my appreciation. [...]
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Posted in personal | No Comments »>Someone (hi!) asked me in email whether my rant about posthumanism and the rejection of the body was in any way similar to Elizabeth Bear’s recent journal posting on the subject, and I told her that I’d try and answer here on the weblog, if I had time. And, well, I had other things [...]
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