Columnated Ruins Domino

The Hugo nominations have been released. (The list on Locus Online).
I am woefully behind on my current reading, so I can’t make selections for every category. I’m not voting anyway, so no harm done.I think Glasshouse should win because it is another great book by Stross. (I’ve heard many great things about Blindsight, but [...]

We just switched over from a landline to Vonage, and so far everything is going swimmingly. The phone has crystal clear sound quality. It was very easy to set up. (I remembered about the MAC Address filtering this time. The wireless print server a few months ago was a bitch until I realized my hyper-paranoid [...]

John Scalzi seems to have kicked up a hornet nest by announcing his run for President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. I can’t vote yet, but he would definitely have my support. From the little I know of the SFWA, it seems to suffer from a calcification of bureaucracy and Scalzi’s [...]

The seminal fantasy/weird fiction magazine Weird Tales now has a special subscription offer that is too good to resist. 12 issues for $12. I think it goes until the end of April, so don’t delay.

Sara and I are going to London in September to see God.
“Having called London’s Royal Festival Hall his “spiritual home away from home,” Brian Wilson, legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer of some of the most unforgettable and inspirational music in rock history, returns in September 2007 for six nights with a concert [...]

I hate waiting for news about my submissions. I know all the advice says you should just keep sending stuff out and ignore wait times, but at some point I get too preoccupied with stories I have sent to various markets and can’t focus on new stories. Right now, I have four stories out and [...]

I haven’t had time to wade through all 50 of these, but I am sure that most are superfluous anyway. Just because someone gets their toast from a talking toaster, it is not SF, of even sci-fi for the philistines.
Not too surprised to see Star Trek at #1. I won’t even rant about the sheer [...]