Yankees Annual Call for Submissions Deadline for pitches: August 15th For the fifth year in a row, I will be editing the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL. This a pre-season magazine, released at the end of February. Roughly half the content of the magazine is focused on the major league team, while the other half…
Hello friends and blog followers, if you’re reading this you’re already in my proverbial loop, but if you are on Twitter too, I’m having a contest. When I reach 1500 Twitter followers I’ll give away two signed erotic books, one to a new follower, one to someone who helped rewteet about the contest. So if…
Oh, the weirdness of the Internet. I just got off the phone with a guy from India. (I know from the country code of his call, not just his accent.) He tells me he got my number off of Facebook. The reason my number is out there on my web page and elsewhere is so…
This is no doubt motivated by the fact that I really really MISSED MY HARRY POTTER PEEPS SO MUCH since I couldn’t be at Infinitus, as well as how many fabulous things I heard about Sectus when it happened in the UK… but I just bought my registration to DiaCon Alley. It’s a Harry Potter…
Friday July 16, 2010 4:15 pm I had the intention to blog about Launch Pad every night before going to bed, but we’ve spent so much time looking at the night sky, both with and without “official” supervision, and my brain has been so super-heated from all the astronomy, physics, math, space science, and so…
Our schedule has been so packed I didn’t have time to blog yesterday, so here’s some photos instead! Dorms, geeks, telescopes, and spectroscopy! From Launch Pad 2010 photos Me at the small telescope on the physical science building on campus.
Tuesday, July 13, 12:13 am End of the very first full day at Launchpad. We were in the classroom for nine hours today, including breaks for lunch and snacking. Each one of the three main lecturers delivered a session, and I’ve decided it’s fruitless for me to try to reproduce what they say. My notes…
July 11, 2010 4:28 pm (Mountain Time) We’ve arrived at the campus of University of Wyoming. Three of us were all on the same flight from Boston so we were picked up together, and also met one of the other participants, Ian Randal Strock (whom I’ve known for years from science fiction conventions), and also…
Launch Pad Diary July 11, 2010 8:27 am Here I am in another airport, starting another travelogue. In previous adventures, I’ve traveled to exotic lands, or to Florida. This time I might go to the moon, though, or other stars. I’m on my way to the Launch Pad Writers Workshop at University of Wyoming. The…
Eric handed out a list of Natural States of Consciousness and Neurochemicals (transcribed below) He was surprised by how many people showed up at dinner time and didn’t make enough handouts, but I typed it up below. Eric: Normal psychology is very good at discounting and throwing away anything that isn’t a “normal” state of…
