Seeing the trailer for "Surrogates" put me onto this escalator: I don't say "philosophical zombie" nearly enough In the future, a "horse of a different color" will be a "brain in a differently-colored jar" "Brain …
The scariest question is "What do you want?" The first time anyone seriously asked me, "What do you want?" it was a teacher, after I'd gibbered at her about a boy and asked for advice. …
Wow. Leonard and I have gone to MoCCA (a comics festival/expo) every single year we've lived in New York! This year I plan on seeking FREAKING KATE BEATON, Brian Wood, Sarah Glidden (will probably buy …
How can I reconcile the awesome company or person you are with the fact that you made a partnership with little ol' me? Could it be that I am exactly as important to you as …
Sometimes I forget that various friends of mine will have different frames of reference than other friends have. "mpreg? Is that a file format, like mpeg?" "Maybe you explained open source before, I don't remember." …
Scott Rosenberg has been on a roll recently, with blog entries like "Once more into the pay-wall breach: No gravedancing edition": [Y]ou can get some revenue from readers, and there's nothing wrong with trying; but …
As it scrolls off my blog's front page: this entry borrows "informational topology" from the excellent science fiction novel Blindsight by Peter Watts, available as a free ebook from his site. If you have not …
Empirically, at least a few folks seemed to enjoy my panel participation at WisCon. Some links that came up during a panel on representing our stories in genre fiction: Tempest's plea to genre authors, they're …
I miss watching Babylon 5 for the first time.
John Darnielle, whose prose sounds a little like Steve Schultz meets Ta-Nehisi Coates, on someone's new album: I love things with personality. Sometimes people use the term as short-hand for "filled, to a fault, with …
