Not much.
If I was in a holding pattern in June, I ground to a halt in July. Maybe it’s grief, maybe it’s too many small changes, maybe it’s just summer doldrums. It’s probably all of those things, but it’s long past time for me to get my feet back under me and get back to work.
I haven’t been around the internet much. I’ve needed some time alone, as it were. I haven’t updated here in over two weeks, which is probably the longest break I’ve taken. I’m not one to announce breaks, or even plan them. I’m also not the sort to announce, “I’m back!” Right now, I’m liking the quiet, but that doesn’t mean I won’t get chatty again.
I’ve let work pile up. I need to get through a read-through/editing pass of Luck for Hire. I should probably clean up a few Divine Fire things, though the time for that has probably passed. I need to get stuff ready for Lucinda at the Window to be re-released. I need to finish constructing a website for my sister (online galleries are their own special hell), and get VOTS fall league squared away. I owe various people long-past-due emails. (I should have warned Betsy that I’m a terrible correspondent.)
Therefore, I’m probably going to drop out of A Round of Words in 80 Days for a while. I’ll try to make it around to a few blogs (I see a lot of RoWers around Twitter and (now) Google+), and I’ll post what I usually post in regards to work, but right now it’s a level of obligation that I can’t guarantee I’ll meet.
This is where I’m at.
(Posted to Tumblr because LiveJournal is once again having problems.)
Putting the Gender in Genre
Confessions of a technophobe: Open House Day 29 - Ian Whates
Featuring a very cool ad from Sapporo.
NASA engineer Bill Tindall was renowned within the agency for the informal tone of the incredibly important internal memos he sent during his tenure. So much so that these “Tindallgrams” have been circulating amongst enthusiasts ever since, and can be found, in PDF format, at the collectSPACE website.
Below is just one of the hundreds he sent. It was written in November of 1968, just eight months prior to the Apollo 11 spaceflight, and saw Tindall amusingly bring to light a potentially startling problem relating to the Lunar Module.
(via Letters of Note: Gee whiz, that master alarm certainly startled me)
Salman Rushdie says TV drama series have taken the place of novels | Books | The Observer
(Actually, that headline is pretty misleading. Rushdie is saying that at the moment he doesn’t have a novel in the works and that he’s impressed with the quality of television. Not that one is replacing the other.)