Posted in Uncategorized, tagged web on March 31, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A Handful of Dust. 4/5 by me, 1/5 by Emma Bull, with help from Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, and Amanda Downum. Blame them for anything you don’t like, and praise me— Wait. I’m supposed to do the false modesty thing, right? Well, the truth is that whether you like it or hate it, it’s what [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged my tribe, Woody Guthrie on March 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged web on March 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in seeker, tagged social security on March 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Conservatives hate the US Social Security system and say it’s in desperate need of repair. I agree; it’s in need of expansion. But they say it’s failing. Remind them Social Security may be the only thing the US doesn’t need to worry about. From here:
The date at which the trust fund will run out, according [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged A Boy in Dog Land, autobiography, dog land, Dogland, memoir on March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Introduction
When I was a boy in the early 1960s, I lived in Florida at a tourist attraction called Dog Land. Years later, I wrote a novel called Dogland based on my life there. This memoir is effectively an abridged version of that novel. The fiction has been removed in the hope that the truth will [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged median way, my vow, practical morality on March 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I keep thinking about how astonishingly rich I would be if I lived at the average level of wealth for a US citizen, and I just can’t do it. So I’m interpreting my vow this way now: I will work to reach this country’s average wealth, but then I will live by the median income [...]
Posted in seeker on March 26, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Yesterday was the third time I’ve been called on jury duty. What seems to be standard procedure: the judge questions the potential jurors, then the lawyers do, and then the lawyers get to veto a few folks. I don’t know why I was chosen to be on a jury in California, but I think I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged web on March 26, 2008 | 13 Comments »
This morning’s Q. got ten twelve votes for full feeds and none for short; full feeds it shall be, O wise ones!
New Q.: Now that I’ve made my peace with making money, another Q.: What do you think of advertising on a site or in an RSS feed?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged web on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For writers thinking about suicide: Desert Dispatches - For Katherine, 1954-2004
If you get that stupid email going around that claims more military people
died in active duty under Clinton than under the current Bush: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Military Losses, 1980 through 2006
compfight / a flickr™ search tool: the coolest thing is it’ll search by Creative [...]
Posted in seeker on March 26, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Okay, my question about what I should blog only got a couple of responses, prob’ly ’cause you know me better than I know myself and know I’m just going to blog about whatever shiny thing is in front of me at the moment.
So I have a new Q.: Do you prefer full RSS feeds so [...]
