Speedy Delivery?
Google Notifications just e-mailed me a link to something mentioning me (or actually, my LiveJournal name) that was posted in October of 2007. Umm, thanks…? [eyeroll] Seriously, though, I’ve gotten...
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WorldCon Part 2
Another panel I made it to was John Scalzi’s “A Trip to the Creation Museum.” I’d previously read Scalzi’s blog post about the visit and had a great time reading it. I knew it’d be even more fun in a...
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March Stuff and an April Mishap
Writing: 5997 words = 1 Editing: 114,093 words = 23 Sub: 1 loooong novel = 1 TOTAL = 25 points I didn’t look at my total until April, so of course I didn’t have a chance to write another Three Freaking...
View ArticleOatmeal vs. FunnyJunk and Charles Carreon
Copied from Dear Author, with permission courtesy of Jane. The Oatmeal is a satiric cartoon site run by Matthew Inman. About a year ago, he noticed that his content was being uploaded without...
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Blog Moderation Techniques
Okay, this is awesome. How does one handle jerkwad commenters? Sure, you can delete their posts, but certain practitioners of gluteal haberdashery are annoyingly persistent. What to do? John Scalzi (a...
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Random Penguin
This site? Is great. When the merger of Random House and Penguin was approved, it was clear to all that the new company needed to be called Random Penguin. Well, perhaps not to all. That the executives...
View ArticleOn the Gay Marriage Case
Writer Courtney Milan, who’s a lawyer in her day job IIRC, wrote this seriously awesome summary of Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments in the Gay Marriage case, in transcript form. They’re nowhere near...
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Dear Dudebro
This is why John Scalzi pretty much owns the Internet. Some months ago, Scalzi said that if his Twitter followers could raise $500 for Clarion within the next half hour, he’d have someone take a...
View ArticleBut It’s Groundhog Day…?
So I’m sitting here working on a story (which is due in by midnight) and I hear this hollow, distant boom from outside. Weird. Sounds like a fireworks type rocket going off, but there’s only one, so I...
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Model Deals with Dirtbags Online
So Emily Sears is a model, and like many models, she posts pics of herself online regularly. It’s part of the job, building her reputation and brand, all that good stuff. But there are dudes online who...
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