A Witch Does Passover – 2012
This year there were eight people at the seder, four of whom had not been to a formal Passover seder before. It was a grand seder, the discussion was stimulating, and the people were great! Among the things I learned:
Sirivocalepsy
This newly-discovered disease refers to the inability to keep quiet when you see someone else using using a device with a speech interface. What the device's user says: "Note eight dollars for lunch." What Siri hears: "Note ten dollars for lunch wow is that an iphone I've thought about getting one but Apple products are so expensive…
Journey – Archived review
If you're looking for a combat challenge, a platformer that requires good twitch skills, or MP PvP extravaganza, this isn't it. This is a gentle game of exploration and light puzzle-solving. There's no combat, and you can't "die"; at worst you can get into a state in which you can no longer search for some optional benefits.…
Thoughts on Lunacon
I’m still recovering from a day spent at Lunacon, the premier New-York-area literary SF convention.
John Carter of Mars
I just came back from seeing the movie. I’ll get to the review, but first is the tale of my connection with Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars.
Movie review – Satanis: The Devil’s Mass
A heart-warming, feel-good story about a poor-but-honest religious separatist named Anton LaVey who gets together with his friends to put on a show and save the local church. In a world where he’s treated by scorn and derided by neighbors, he rises up against injustice and…
Uh-oh
Mountain Lion is the next version of the Mac OS. From the Mountain Lion press release: "Gatekeeper is a revolutionary new security feature that gives you control over which apps can be downloaded and installed on your Mac. You can choose to install apps from any source, just as you do on a Mac today, or you…
Small Valentine’s Day Poem by Neil Gaiman
Roses are red, Violets are purple, Which is a very hard word to rhyme And makes me happy that on February the 14th we don't traditionally have to give each other oranges.
Working hard or hardly working?
I’ve spent almost this entire weekend working on the biography. And yet I did little or no actual research. It was all about soliciting interviews and organizing resources.