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Posts from December 2007

I’ve Got A Guest Post on Ecstatic Days!

I’ve blogged about Jeff Vandermeer before. His City of Saints and Madmen didn’t just blow me away — it helped me understand that 500 pages of insane twisted effulgence can be beautiful, touching, human.

Anyway, I’ve got a guest post on his blog! My entry is part of a promotion that Ann Vandermeer is doing for [...]


Bio

I spent a ridiculous portion of last week trying to write a capsule bio of myself, for a story that’s going to be coming out next year. I say ridiculous because it really shouldn’t take very long to write a hundred words about yourself, should it? And yet I labored over this thing for five [...]


I’d Like to Grapple-Turn That Vampiric Ooze, Please

The 4th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons is coming out next year, and the geek community is all atwitter with anticipation, derision, or complete ambivalence. I’m with the breathless anticipation crowd, in no small measure because some of the rules in the current edition are really kind of broken — not mechanically broken, just monstrously [...]


Be Repetitively Affirmative

If someone were to come up to me in the street and ask me what makes Unix so damn cool, I’d point them to the yes command. Here’s its man page (OS X version):

YES(1)

NAME yes — be repetitively affirmative

SYNOPSIS yes [expletive]

DESCRIPTION yes outputs expletive, or, by [...]