This week’s CBC Web column… Download the audio version. ***** Orange leaf bags with grinning jack-o’-lantern faces cover the lawns. The drugstore shelves are groaning under the weight of grinning skulls, leering witches, and dancing robot mummies, and you can hardly buy groceries without getting a dangling plastic bat caught in your hair. That must …
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. As I mentioned last column, I spent last week singing with the Canadian Chamber Choir in southern Ontario. In addition to concerts, we also took part in several workshops with musicians ranging in age from eight to 80. Our director, Dr. Julia Davids, who …
I’m back! I’ll post more about my exploits with the Canadian Chamber Choir (which is what kept me away from the computer and hence from this blog for the last week) soon, but in the meantime, let’s get things rolling forward again with this list of the Aurora Award winners for the best Canadian SF …
Visit this page. Which way does the figure appear to be turning? I instantly saw her as turning clockwise, which supposedly makes me more right-brained. However, if I close my eyes for one second and tell myself she’s turning counter-clockwise, when I open my eyes I see her turning the other way. I’m not sure …
Today’s CBC web column… I love gadgets. I wrote my last novel on a gadget, my Pocket PC cell phone, using a fold-out wireless keyboard. The only thing that keeps me from drowning in gadgets is that I can’t afford them all. But I can do the next best thing, and read about them on …
Just to prove I don’t only point you to positive reviews of my stuff, here’s someone who really, really didn’t like Lost in Translation. On the other hand, she did finish it…so I guess I could say she found it “un-put-downable,” couldn’t I?
Q. Which former guest of honor at the World Science Fiction Convention (in 1987) went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? A. Dorothy Lessing.
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. Every fall the leaves fall from the trees, and the Ig Nobel Prizes fall from on high (well, from the magazine Annals of Improbable Research) upon the grateful—usually—heads of researchers whose achievements “make people laugh—then think.” My favorite this year (probably because I read …
My daughter, Alice, on the shore of Lake Huron. (More photos here.)
I’ve occasionally referred to my Pocket PC and, by extension, the Internet, as “my other brain.” Turns out I’m not alone: Almost without noticing it, we’ve outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us. And frankly, I kind of like it.Yeah, me too.
A Baltimore Oriole watches the ball come over the plate in a game against Toronto on a sunny Sunday in August in the Skydome (er, Rogers Place…whatever). More photos here.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Try the priest.
