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October 29, 2009

thereifixedit

Some of you may know this site already, but it bears revisiting:http://thereifixedit.com/Ta, L.  (Related to engineers.)
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Published on October 29, 2009 16:35

October 16, 2009

Watching and reading. And moving furniture.

OK...

So, Netflix did not lie: Krrish really was the sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya.  It's... almost impossible to describe, and I just watched it.  First half, bucolic love story with a touch of George...
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Published on October 16, 2009 15:23

October 12, 2009

Minnesota Fantasy Award

An unexpected note --

I am informed I am to be this year's recipient of the Minnesota Fantasy
Award, which was created by and is maintained under the auspices of the
long-running Twin Cities dark...
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Published on October 12, 2009 02:46

October 4, 2009

Bollyweird: Koi... Mil Gaya

I found this film on a rec from a Texan friend, who'd first seen parts of it on an Air India flight back from her son's wedding in Hyderabad to a beautiful doctor.  (I wish my son would... never mind....
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Published on October 04, 2009 14:20

September 30, 2009

GURPS Vorkosigan update

So..I am informed that the final full-color version of GURPS Vorkosigan has at last been printed, and the print run is, even as I type, in a shipping container somewhere on the high seas, slogging tow...
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Published on September 30, 2009 14:17

September 29, 2009

recent reading roundup

Lots of airplane reading this month...Bogging partway through The Worm Ouroboros, I switched to YA romance for a bit, as the most opposing antidote I could think of.  I had borrowed a copy of Circus o...
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Published on September 29, 2009 04:20

September 23, 2009

Falling Free out from Audible.com today

Huh.  This one snuck up on me...

http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/prod......
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Published on September 23, 2009 14:01

September 17, 2009

FenCon charity auction note

Heads up for the interested or friends of the interested: In the cause of lightening the load in my basement, I'm donating a few items to the FenCon charity auction this coming weekend. Two books in ...
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Published on September 17, 2009 00:13

September 16, 2009

assorted literary input

So...My airplane reading for Dragon*Con was yet another Jayne Ann Krentz, Perfect Partners (1992).  This is a contemporary-setting tale from early in the period when she was starting to escape categor...
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Published on September 16, 2009 00:55

September 9, 2009

FenCon VI reminder - Sept. 18 - 20

Just a reminder, I will be GoH-ing at FenCon VI in Dallas/Ft. Worth Sept. 18 - 20.http://www.fencon.org/index.htmlShould be a fun one.  Lillian Stewart Carl, who edited The Vorkosigan Companion and wh...
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Published on September 09, 2009 07:37