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August 15, 2011
A Map Of The Central 50 Light Years Of The Milky Way
A false-color composite image of the central 50 light-years of the Milky Way as seen for the first time in the entirely of the far infrared. Many of the previously-known structures in the region are labeled; the location of the black hole is labeled "SagA*," and the inner donut as "CND." Colder material is shown in red; warmer (but still relatively cold) in blue. Credit: NASA; ESA and M. Etxaluze
Improper Message
Issue 99 of ICON magazine, in which the design & invention unit BERG, publishers of SVK, refer to me, Bruce Sterling and William Gibson as "giant uncles or adopted parents." I can't decide if that's better or worse than the year they spent calling me "Big Chief." Obviously, I see a beating in their future.
Speaking of Sterling, he took this photo at the weekend:
And, to get the day loping along, a bit of kosmische from Jon Brooks:
Station Ident
Today I hit the halfway point on GUN MACHINE.
Broadcasting resumes.
sent from [device: spacephone]
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August 14, 2011
August 13, 2011
This Is What It Means To Be Templesmith
A kind bystander helps Templesmith sedate his sentient and footloose beard, Marvin.
August 12, 2011
I used to be good at this blogging thing, and tens of th...
I used to be good at this blogging thing, and tens of thousands of people used to visit here every day. And then I seem to have kind of forgotten how to do it.
LEFT: Molly Crabapple's art for the COILHOUSE magazine party in NYC on the 21st.
In other news, I had to switch my novel-writing software from OpenOffice to, for the first time in probably ten years, Microsoft Word. OpenOffice has developed this weird quirk on my machine where it randomly loses bits of the novel, and disappears other bits that only emerge when I do a copy/paste of the entire document into Google Docs. (When I was writing Spirit Tracks, some arcane quirk would render bits of the piece invisible in OpenOffice, yet visible in Google Docs.) Since this is the longest continuous document I've written in OpenOffice on this machine, I decided not to reinstall it (or install LibreOffice), but to activate the pre-installed MS Word. My instinct is that it's a stability issue in OpenOffice, and I don't know if the chink was in there before LibreOffice forked out of OpenOffice, and I do not have all fucking day to fart about with such things. Except that, of course, I've had to re-learn Word. And MS Word calculates word counts differently. So suddenly I'm a thousand words behind where I thought I was, and I won't be certain that there weren't uncaught losses to the novel until I do my final proof, and arrrgh. Nothing's ever easy, is it?
So I should have been closing in on 40,000 words tonight, but instead I'm at 36500.
And now I'm going back to work, having provided no entertainment or information whatsoever.
August 10, 2011
August 9, 2011
Padraig
Squall approaching from Achill
DEATH BAR
Thing...
Padraig
Squall approaching from Achill
DEATH BAR
Things to do:
Need to come up with the story for my final issue of SECRET AVENGERS, as we just locked the artist for it.
Smash OpenOffice with my bare hands for continuing to randomly lose pieces of my novel and arbitrarily alter the word count when it's not losing pieces of novel.
Observe that MagCloud are due to announce a new format soon.
Mention this, noting that further details are imminent:
Find the time to write some script on an unannounced comics thing I've been working on slowly.
Stop sleeping long enough to write the audio thing I've been talking with an acquaintance about.
Register faint concern and displeasure at being referred to as "a giant uncle" by BERG in the new issue of ICON. (Though it was generally a really nice piece. Thanks for the copy, Will.)
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