Firefly has finally bought the farm. It's peripheral to my TV-watching, interesting only because it's part of the Buffy/Angel family (though not the universe). I hated the premiere. I've downloaded one other episode (had some extra bandwidth to burn) and haven't watched it yet. … [Read more...] about Train wrecks in space
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Jack me in
I am William Gibson. (via Making Light) … [Read more...] about Jack me in
PicturePop
This just in: PicturePop is a brilliant little utility for OS X that lets you preview an image by right-clicking it in the Finder. Awesome. (via Six Apart.) Wrote one tiny snippet and some notes at lunch. Fingers too cold to hold pen… oh, btw, Monday's lunch writing … [Read more...] about PicturePop
Technological amnesia
Words I don't use often enough: carom. No writing since my last post. (Damn the holidays.) At least lunch writing is a possibility today. Today, we have had power but no network. Today I have felt like I imagine amnesia victims must feel, at least after the initial shock has … [Read more...] about Technological amnesia
Lunch writer
More lunch writing today… about a page and a half (400-600 words?) which I will type up later. … [Read more...] about Lunch writer
Inspiration lives in the shower
Chalk up a few more points for shower-induced inspiration. I came home from my yoga class with every intention of working on the server and hanging the curtains in the living room, but a complex set of scenes ambushed me in the shower. Two thousand and sixteen words later, I feel … [Read more...] about Inspiration lives in the shower
Lights out
Here in the office, we keep having power outages. The lights are on one breaker and the outlets on another, so our computers go suddenly, disconcertingly black while around us everything appears normal. Yesterday things stayed dead for so long that eventually the lights went, … [Read more...] about Lights out
Bad Sex Prize
The Literary Review Bad Sex Prize is here again. (Do I have to warn you that there's some explicit stuff behind that link?) Pinstripes and Ethan Hawke and Chairman Mao…. oh my. … [Read more...] about Bad Sex Prize
BBEdit saves the day
A while back, I tore my hair out trying to find a way to print a list of the files in a directory. I was in Windows at the time, and finally found a little DOS utility that did a decent job. But, as usual, it's so much easier in OS X! … [Read more...] about BBEdit saves the day
new and improved
Luke Francl has updated the Word Unmunger to handle Word X's crazy if-then tags. Go grab a new copy! … [Read more...] about new and improved
