…but I still thought this “I hate Macs” rant from the Guardian was very funny. (Be sure to read the tag. And the first comment.)
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Odd search terms and how they found me
Usually I post a list of the top search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com. This week I thought I’d post some of the strangest search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com. You sometimes have to wonder what the searchers were really looking for. I’ve left the original search linked to the term. “most famous cows” – …
Ocean planets on the brink of detection!
But not, alas, any kind of ocean planets that could be the planet I conjured up for Marseguro (if that ends up being its title), my new SF novel I’m still anxiously awaiting editorial reaction to. Still, this is a pretty cool concept and would make a great setting for some kind of SF story: …
Eau de mer
“The smell of the sea” sounds romantic in books, but being a prairie landlubber, I always kind of thought that the sea, um…not to put too fine a point on it…is rather stinky. At least at first whiff. Meet the culprit: dimethyl sulphide. “On bracing childhood visits to the seaside we were always told to …
Whenever I think I might like to pop into Second Life again…
…I read something like this. There are no Utopias, online or off.
This is a favour to Neil Gaiman…
…whom I’ve never met, although I was there when he won his Hugo Award at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose with the most direct and to-the-point Hugo Acceptance speech in history (“F**k, I won a Hugo!”): Penn Jillette.
I wonder if Second Cup would have let me get away…
…with writing a note on the furniture to mark the spot where I finished writing my new SF book?
My alma mater makes the news…
…albeit it in slightly embarrassing fashion: “Mayhem at Harding: Dancing Breaks Out.” Oh, and there’s video.
I finished it! I finished it!
I turned in the manuscript for Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw to Red Deer Press last night. Whee! Of course, I still have several hundred photographs to take, apparently in the middle of a cold snap, but at least it will be a change from sitting on my…chair. Now maybe I can make …
Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa
Elvis lives! Well, kind of. Way back in 1991 I wrote a column on taxonomy–which is not, as you might suppose, the scientific study of taxes. (And yes, I used that same joke 16 years ago.) It’s just barely possible you don’t remember that original column, so first, a quick taxonomy refresher. Taxonomy is the …
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Still too busy to blog much, but here’s an interesting article on applause. Who invented it…and why? (To which the answers appear to be “Nobody knows” and “Because,” but it’s still an interesting article.)
Light blogging alert!
Frantically trying to finish off Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw. Not much blogging today. Maybe not much the whole week…
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