don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but today, I created an IFTTT recipe that archives the Daily Science Fiction stories I receive via email each weekday to Evernote. My recipe assumes you use Gmail, but I imagine it would be easy enough to riff of this recipe for other email clients. For…
ere are just a few updates for things that have been going on. I realized I dumped about 5 posts on you yesterday so I’ll try to take it easy on you today. This is mostly just bookkeeping stuff. Some folks may have noticed that the fonts on the site looked different for a day…
n today’s mail was this interesting-looking anthology: Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. I certainly recognize a lot names in this one:
t is March 14, also know as 3/14, or “Pi” day since that mathematical constant is often rounded to 3.14. If we consider the subsequent digits, 15926, for instance, then I suppose we’ve already missed Pi hour, minute and second which would have taken place today (3/14) at 1:59:26am. I suppose that Pi day is…
esterday, after my regular morning walk, I discovered that my FitBit Ultra, which I’ve used to capture my walking activity for more than a year now, was gone. I had been clipped to my waistband, as always, but when I checked some time after my walk it wasn’t there. I retraced some of my steps…
esterday, Google announced the retirement of a number of its services, including Google Reader, its RSS aggregator. The retirement will take place on July 1. This is unfortunate. I’ve used Google Reader for years as the place where I aggregate my RSS feeds. I generally don’t read my RSS feeds using Reader. For that I use…
nce upon a time, the way I used to remind myself of something was to stick a yellow square Post-It note on my computer monitor with the reminder scribbled in ink on the note. These reminders would collect, like moss, on my monitor until it was overrun. They were often lost in the crowd. I’d…
f you head over to InterGalactic Medicine Show, you’ll find the latest entry in my science fiction book review column, “The Science of Wonder.” In March I review Robert J. Sawyer’s latest novel, Red Planet Blues and Stephen King’s time-travel novel, 11/22/63. Both books are excellent, but if you want to find out more details, head on over to…
arrived home today to find not one but two packages from TOR books. Today’s shipment brings the following: Pandemonium by Warren Fahy And Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear