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  • Tortoise ramps

    A quick archaeology humor update to hold y’all while I’m away without internet on a familial vacation. You’ll notice that I’ve tightened comment security for a while. For if I did not, yea, my inbox would suffer beneath a prodigious weight of spam, ere I return. But fear not! You can always register or comment…

  • Reality Writing

    You know what the world needs? A reality TV show of writers. I believe I’ve spoken on this blog before about how much I love competitive cooking shows. (My parents will tell you’ve I’ve liked cooking shows since I was a small child, but that’s a misdirection. You’d have thought our TV only had the…

  • Cheese jealousy

    I apologize for the relative silence–I was traveled over the holiday weekend, and my friend an I had a date with finishing Dragon Age 2, which was delightful from a storytelling perspective, and…less so, from a blogging one. I have a post stored up for later about driving long distances and the creative process, but…

  • Laundry scandals

    I tried out a laundromat for the first time this morning, since the dryers at my complex have been wimpy, useless buggers lately. I’m fairly impressed with the experience—the washers cost more, but while the two at my complex come in small- (normal, I suppose, if I’m feeling kind) capacity, the ones here are large-,…

  • Brain switch

    It seems I am something of a music blog lately! It’s been an interesting week at work, since we got all of our computers upgraded, and it’s going to be an interesting weekend, since my community choir has our concert. In the vein of odd connections my mind makes, the process of getting ready for…

  • Oh, Canada!

    A mini-vacation sort of weekend: I went up to Victoria to see the sister who in other periods of history would surely be terribly scandalous perform Verdi’s Mass as part of the chorus. I envy them, because for most of the songs in my choir’s upcoming concert, we want to be smiling to draw the…

  • Insulated!

    I forgot, in dismissing my pictures of racing, that I’d slipped in a My Archaeology Hat Doesn’t Come Off one. I figured if you’re sticking around this blog, that one might interest you most! Follow me below the jump. It’s big because I want you to be able to see the details.

  • Via Stork

    If you’re wondering about the title, it’s an answer to “Where do ideas come from?” Probably a more realistic answer, at least for my process, is that when two ideas really love each other… I have two short stories vying for my attention at the moment (and of course, the second book to be working…

  • Post Con

    I’m back! Con was a ton of fun, as they so often are, especially since Norwescon is at the center of several of the spheres of my past. I ran into someone from high school there this year. I also got to be on my best attended panels ever, thanks to Jim Butcher. In his…

  • Science and fiction

    A pause in my con preparations for a thinky post. I read this article this morning (courtesy of Jay Lake and Ken Scholes) and found it extremely interesting. It talks about how the brain tends to reject evidence to the contrary of what we already believe, no matter how compelling. I also found it refreshing…

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