One thing I’ve been meaning to do over the last, oh, year or more is institute an editorial calendar for Slice and AHT. But I’m of two minds on this. The Cons Since I’m more a pessimist than anything, I’ll list drawbacks first: Losing Blog Cred Blogging , as I see it, is supposed to [...]
As I’ve said before, I really like Vox but I’ve been hard pressed to think of what to write on it. But a couple weeks ago, Anil suggested I should try blogging some “Behind the Slice” material. It’s a good idea, so I’ll try that. Now the hard part: Figuring out what to say about [...]
I just heard the craziest New York story yet. So my girlfriend’s coworker’s brother’s girlfriend (bear with me) was dog-sitting an aging black lab in Brooklyn. The dog dies while the owners are away. The girl calls the owners, informs them. It’s OK, they say. It’s not unexpected. We’ve looked into what to do. There’s [...]
I really should have taken this photo when it was really coming down, but the rain just went nuts here around 9:24 a.m. It was a gray-out. Visibility to the buildings across the street, much less the Hudson in the distance, was nil. I love the rain, but I was happy to watch it from [...]
After reading about it on Boing Boing a couple weeks ago, I started subscribing to the Escape Pod podcast. Short science-fiction stories from a variety of great SF authors. This podcast magazine is published by Stephen Eley, who’s doing a bang-up job of it. Nearly all the stories I’ve listened to so far have been [...]