I hope five things really do make a post

I hope that one of these days I will regenerate enough brain to post about a bunch of things piling up in my head: Ada Lovelace, Babbage's childhood attempt to summon the devil, the manga I've been reading lately, etc. But that day is not today -- not if I want to also get my writing done at a reasonable hour -- so let's just get on to the reminders and such.

First, something unrelated to A Star Shall Fall: if you missed it over the holiday weekend, I'm the most recent guest on Jim Hines' ...