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An amazing book, now a terrific trailer:

Mary Robinette Kowal, recent winner of the Campbell Award and long-time awesome human being, has a new story online at Apex: “Scenting the Dark.”
I post the link here because (1) it’s a terrific story, one of the best I’ve read in a long time, and (2) I plan to teach it next week. This [...]

First game of the season is this evening, and we’re debuting half of a new stadium. Should be quite nice. Have a barbecue at a neighbor’s house before that, which should be a lot of fun, especially since their house backs up to the parade route where the cadets will be marching.
Go Bulldogs! [...]

Just watched Obama’s DNC speech. I might be a Bull Moose supporter, but THAT was why I voted for Obama in the primary last spring.
If you haven’t done your homework to check out the facts of the candidates, please do so. As he just made potently clear, we’re long past the point of knee-jerk reactions. [...]

Started teaching yesterday. Seemed like good students overall. I’m exciting to start warping shaping their minds. I’ve scheduled my office hours for Wednesday afternoons, and it’s too early for many folks to be stopping by (the big rush comes after I turn back papers for the first time), so I spent the [...]

Today was convocation, an annual ritual in which college professors welcome incoming freshmen by dressing up in preacher robes, wearing funny hats, and then getting really sweaty since it’s the end of August and no one in their right mind ought to wear such things when the humidity is high.
On the plus side, this year [...]

For some reason, Wordpress 2.5 had nuked my post categories. Everything appeared as “Uncategorized” no matter what I did on my administrative end. The new update, though, has them working again. Phew!

Oops. I ordered a replacement drive for our laptop and it came today. I got out the handy-dandy screwdriver and ripped the guts out of the Sony only to discover … and there was some sad cursing here … that I’d somehow ordered a SATA drive when my old laptop takes a PATA [...]

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