All right, it’s not quite that bad. But it’s sad to see that Dragon is not only paying a pittance for fiction, but requires authors to give up all rights to their work. Those of you with a low threshold for old-geek nattering should wander off and get a fresh cup of coffee at this [...]
I would have been set to talk about The Janissary Tree, which promises to be a fairly intriguing book, except that I got to page 54 and discovered that pages 55 to 86 are MISSING. This in an autographed copy. I am really not happy about having to exchange a book during the hellacious shopping [...]
I assume you already know what you’re thankful for, and have read various blog posts, op-ed pieces and so on about the need to be thankful and how blessed we are, so I’m just going to concentrate on the food aspect of the holiday. It’s unlikely to help you today, since you are either already [...]
John Scalzi writes a cheerful and entertaining report about his long-promised visit to the Creation Museum. The take-away message: Even evolution-denying, Talmud-ignorant, metaphor-tone-deaf, pretzel-headed Christian literalists are forced to acknowledge and honor the utter coolness of dinosaurs.
I was paging through the various items available for sale on ThinkGeek and found the “Binary Dad” shirt, which is a nice blue shirt spelling “Dad” in binary. (Similar “Mom” and “Kid” shirts are available.) The Queen, looking over my shoulder, asked “Are you going to get that for Daddy?” In all seriousness, I said [...]