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Filler/excuse: The perils of simplicity in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
There should have been a long, wide-ranging, and very good entry awhile back. There almost was, but it vanished. I wrote it on a webpage that forces you to write in only the most commonly used ...
The one about "truthers" in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
I’ve shown it before, but here is the first of the two business cards I have. “And around me, as I fiddled in Gimpshop, I felt the winds of prophecy . . .” I am finding it much less amusing at ...
The email continues. So, with this winter of discontent about the future of space (or about the torpidity of its approach) in the background . . . what am I thinking that Australia should do in...
(Long title. Start a naming convention in haste, repent at leisure.) I won’t have an excuse to mention it later, so: a movie to get in DVD - almost certainly by ordering it from Japan, as I did, ...
Polesitter 1 - the unattended promise in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
So. In the throes of mooning about Woomera past and present, I did some investigation into its prospects - more specifically into the prospects for some sort of ongoing role for it, for a living ...
A birthday, a tooth, and three outworld gallivants in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Four days ago I finished a very strange month-long stint of editing. No thickets of narrow decisions are in my face. This will probably only last a few more days, but my free time is for the mo...
. . . Faugh. ENOUGH!! So much for my finding a philosophical way to MOURN an at-long-last social outcome that I have been wishing for and arguing for for thirty years!!! :-) (And probably too d...
Attention Deficit Disorder periodically involves an inability to remember whether the pills that one just swallowed included the Attention Deficit Disorder pill. I remember opening the two bottle...
What happens when I'm in a jeremiad mood in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
There should be a word for the feeling of approval of ruthlessness, including one’s own vicarious ruthlessness, and approval of one’s approval of it, all in a package. Things should have adequate...
Alex affects the universe in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
So, the other morning I woke early - well, at 5:50 a.m. , which is not the sort of early where I can really grind my forehead into my pillow to get back to sleep, but which is early enough for me...
Pirates for posterity in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Getting very, very tired of this ultra-verbiated madness, and somewhat dismayed by it. Me. My comments. Here, in Facebook, under io9 posts, everywhere. My language brain is hyper-stimulated a...
Why it is wrong to take care of the "job creators" in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
I rarely try to write about economics anymore, even though I’ve retained my sense of it - somewhere, in potentia - as the magnificently challenging Queen of the Social Sciences and of the Navigat...
So I edited the short story “The Grove” (which can be found here), and then resumed and completed work on the All Ages version of the novel Fluency, and then I incorporated all the edits of the ...
Because the good ones should all be written down in as many places as possible. :-) I keep coming back to these. SMOTHERED CABBAGE AND KIELBASA Like many of our favorites, this is something w...
And then something went "bump." in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
A welcome pause, taken in deep fatigue. A big bowl of smothered cabbage and kielbasa—fine stuff; I don’t think I put in quite enough crushed dried red chillies this time. Always seek out kielbas...
So, there'll be a story coming. in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
I sort of fell backward into editing work. In fact, I’m too busy to write here, about that or some other things. Soon, though. A break has to come sometime.
Denouement/me talking to people in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Most of the business… I need to be more careful, or less naive, when I talk to people. Otherwise it’s water over the dam. But there is the leftover problem with my friend (I’ll go ahead and say ...
Bleargh. in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Fearsomely depressed. Yeah, the Telling History What To Do therapy didn’t take. Wonderful feeling while it lasts, but the crash comes when you sigh blissfully, and you look around for one of t...
The solutions research follow-up in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Still a bit off from that, but I’d better get back on the horse. Although, it’ll be a while before I’m quite comfortable un-self-consciously voicing an irrelevancy in mixed company. Which… any...
How obtuse the writer can be in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Great God, I just made a fool of myself. Do I write it up here in full? “For the file”? I don’t think I have the energy… not for full “in full”… Let’s just say: Around midday I was in a comme...
The one with all the solutions in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
(Or in which I psychoanalyze myself on the subject, at least.) This entry will be about other things, but to fill it in: So I tried the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, on Skype simultaneously with m...
The enigma of the comfortable Cassandras in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
(Note: Because I am trying to sensibly translate a position that was largely in the original a bunch of incredulous spluttering, I will be partly suspending self-editing. Sorry if I ramble.) Onc...
Two bangs and one tuneful whimper in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
The peppers are ripe! (No, those are grapes right there, sure enough. I just thought they were pretty to look at starting off. They grow right in the same double row with the peppers, anyway.)...
ITER, fusion, understanding scientific work, and the glib in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
So, there’s a mountain of metal being raised in Cadarache, France. Unfortunately, odds are good you haven’t heard about it except from me. It’s called ITER, which stands for International Therm...
The depressed ADD entry (sorry, readers) in The Amalgamated Aggromulator
Up early. Typing on Mom’s crashes-every-three-minutes computer, in Yahoo Mail even though I am not going to send an email, because the Drafts section seems to catch and retain every keystroke whe...
