I may need to order some belts before the next grading.
Basketball practice downstairs is loud enough without the stereo.
It's really nice to hear someone tell you they appreciate all the years you've been volunteering.
It never occurred to me that instructing at judo is volunteering, but of course it is.
Since when is Europe's "The Final Countdown" [...]
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Notes from judo class tonight
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Touring the Nonsuch
My current WiP, Everything that Never Happened, is set mainly aboard a small 17th-century sailing vessel, a square-rigged ketch named the Mandalay. It's not a coincidence that it's a square-rigged ketch, just like the historical Nonsuch; ever since the first time I visited the Nonsuch gallery in the Manitoba Museum, I've been fascinated by [...]
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Tesseracts 14
So yeah. Tesseracts is an annual Canadian anthology of SF and fantasy.
This year, my short story "Heat Death, or, Answering the Ourobouros Question" will be in it.
To say I'm excited is to somewhat understate the case.
Edit—comments from the editors: "[One editor] wrote down 'funny, lively, likeable.' [The other] was even more enthusiastic!"
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Hmmm
I should probably post some of my Christmas photos soon. You know, since it's the new year and all.
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Winter is pretty… sometimes.
Right now there's hoarfrost on everything.
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This morning came awful early
When my wife's alarm clock went off at 5:30 AM, she said to me, "When did you get in last night?"
Me: "3:30."
Her: "Yeah. I woke up at 2:30, and you weren't in yet. I thought, Those idiots*, and went back to sleep."
Those idiots were me and my cow-orker Craig, and the [...]
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Contemplating a tattoo
…someday. And so here're the ones currently under consideration:
Two ravens, along with a quote from verse 80 of Hávamál: "Praise ice when over it". (But ideally, translated into Icelandic.)
This — the cherry blossom eight-sided mirror symbol of Kodokan Judo.
Eppur si muove — Galileo's (probably apocryphal) rebuttal to his forced confession that the Earth [...]
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The jetpack theory
42. Jetpack
Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream.
Tom Gauld has it right. 100% right, IMHO.
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Triple threat
I'm kind of a sucker for certain things:
Images of galaxies — I love the great whorls of stars that make up the visible mass of the Universe
The history of science, especially physics and astronomy
A clever title
So it was probably inevitable that I'd check this book out of the library today:
I'll let you know what I [...]
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