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my mightiness is not exactly great, but it did show up on time

Project Valkyrie this weekend was walking, both Saturday and Sunday.

Today I used our new Wii Fit for 30 minutes. I have somewhat mixed feelings about it (see entry tag), but it provides variety--and it counts reps for me, which is also a plus.

And now my feet hurt.

UBC: Harvest of Despair

Berkhoff, Karel C. Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004.


This is a very difficult and painful book to read because, to put it vulgarly, the people of Ukraine could not catch a fucking break. They go from Stalin and the Terror-Famine to the Nazis, who quite deliberately starved the urban population and generally behaved like, well, Nazis, and at the end of the war, of course, they are doomed to go right back to Stalin; in post-WWII Sovie

3rd ARC reaction shot and sundry other matters

nz_navigatress is the third ARC winner; she has a nonspoilery post here.

To answer a question asked in the comments to nz_navigatress's post, the paperback of Corambis will probably be out in April 2010, if Ace adheres to the schedule they've followed with the other books. There's no guarantee of that, but it's the best answer I can give.

Speaking of answers (I've got my segues down cold today *g*), I will be doing another round of Q&A to celebrate the release of Corambis; the phone lines internet

5 things

1. Thank you to everyone who has expressed enthusiasm for the podcast of Chapter 2. I was surprised and very pleased at how happy it seems to make people.

2. I would be more impressed with the Oxford World's Classics collection of M. R. James stories, and with Michael Chabon's introduction thereto, if someone had noticed that Chabon gets the name of the main character of "'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'" wrong.

2a. Someone could probably do something interesting with James' "The Malice of

Corambis Chapter 2

Right-click here.

.mp3
1 hr, 15 min.

And a round of applause for mirrorthaw, who is once again a hero of the technorevolution.

Because kate_nepveu asked nicely

--and because I wasn't getting anything done today anyway--

There will be a podcast of Chapter Two of Corambis. I've done the recording, so when it goes up will depend on when mirrorthaw has the time to do his technogeek stuff to make it a manageable file.

I am not planning to put up text files of these sample chapters because, what with one thing and another, the electronic version I have of Corambis is at least two iterations back from the published version, and bringing it up to date will invol

Happy birthday, brisingamen!

Happy birthday, brisingamen!

Corambis ARC reaction shot

Another ARC recipient weighs in.

I don't think there are any concrete spoilers, although she does talk about how she feels about Corambis as the end of the series, so a person can gather certain things about how the book ends. Depending on the severity of your allergy to spoilers, you may or may not be bothered.

Hugo ballot

The Hugo nominations are out.

Congratulations to all the nominees!

And an extra helping of bonne chance to the five Campbell nominees, Aliette de Bodard, David Anthony Durham, Felix Gilman, Tony Pi, and Gord Sellar.

Due South: "Perfect Strangers"

"Perfect Strangers" (DS 3.10)
Original air date: November 30, 1997
Favorite quote:
RAY: Okay, so a stewardess in Canada--
FRASER: Flight attendant.
RAY: A waitress in the sky in Canada is killed. Her pin shows up in the hand of a loser like Sonny on the South Side of Chicago in this dump? What is the deal?
WELSH: Well, that's why we have detectives, Detective. You are going to figure out that troublesome problem for us.
RAY: Oh.

(Did Paul Gross have a cold when they were shooting this episode? He doesn