Diane Duane

(sighing) Right. I knew this damn map was around here somewhere.

(sighing) Right. I knew this damn map was around here somewhere. (How typical to find it the day AFTER I publish the post. ) (EYEROLL)

(…sighing) At this point in the local disaster management process, might as well defrost this…

(…sighing) At this point in the local disaster management process, might as well defrost this thing completely and give it a good cleaning out/wiping dry. There was a lot of melted-down unsavory theoretically-non-toxic-but-unquestionably-icky fluid waste in the bottom. Meanwhile: I want to very much thank all the nice people (and will do so individually where possible) who’ve been…

This never gets old. :)

Kids Have Been Drawing Violent Battles And Fantastical Beasts on Their Homework Since The 13th Century This never gets old. :)

Everything in the freezer may be ruined, but I cooked and shot these first. The cider-sauced…

Smoked Silvershoal with Pickled Summer Vegetables - Food and Cooking of the Middle Kingdoms Everything in the freezer may be ruined, but I cooked and shot these first. The cider-sauced non-smoked version will follow as soon as I’ve replaced the lost fish.

scientific fact

lamine-19 : scientific fact

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted…

mookimooks : lytefoot : anarchistmemedistro : excusethequality : excusethequality : While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers. It’s never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked. One of which…

European Looney Tunes fans: Preview dates for COYOTE VS. ACME now dropping

The preview date I’ve mostly seen at the European end is August 21. I’m booked in for a matinee next Friday up in Dublin. The film “goes wide” worldwide on August 28. (But why wait? Glad to show up early and show this film some love… and possibly put Big Looney off the idea of trying the shelve-people’s-hard-work-for-tax-writeoffs stunt again.) Some pre-release…

COYOTE VS. ACME: coming to Europe. Yay!

Something Wile E this way comes: how the Looney Toons reboot movie came back from the dead UK release is August 21 (so probably the same for Ireland). Can’t wait!

Shadow of the Moon from high-altitude balloon

photos-of-space : Shadow of the Moon from high-altitude balloon

May the feasting never cease

jollygengar : May the feasting never cease

A chilly homecoming

So I went as a guest to the International Discworld Convention in Leicestershire, this last weekend (as had long been planned), and had a fabulous time. It was so terrific seeing so many much-missed buddies in a venue that Peter and I had visited before, and where we’d always had a great time, as old friends and fans of Terry Pratchett’s. The convention went smoothly, insofar as I was concerned (a…

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European Colander Day

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Starting to test out a new search engine

Young Wizards – Qwant Search …Not really so new. But different. Qwant is now the official search engine of the European Parliament, which dumped Google as part of a program to use less US technology. …Some more about it here at Wikipedia.

…WTF.

David Ellison Says He’ll Pull Paramount Out of California Starting Oct. 1 if States Refuse to Negotiate Settlement in Antitrust Suit …WTF.

My absolute favorite of the many fabulous pieces of Discworld opera poster art appearing on the…

My absolute favorite of the many fabulous pieces of Discworld opera poster art appearing on the corridor walls at the International Discworld Convention this past weekend. (ETA for @serkershit : Please tell David that the art initially STOPPED ME DEAD in the hall between the Triumph bar and the back side of things, and all I could do was stand there hanging my face open and then go “WOW THAT…

Do professional authors still cackle and kick their feet while thinking about things to inflict on the characters?

Hmm. I can't speak for others, but I don't go in for the cackling too much, as a rule. I may be kind of an outlier in this regard, admittedly... but once you've been doing this work more or less constantly for twenty or thirty or forty years (and I'm coming up on fifty years of this, now), you'll increasingly have it borne in on you—if you're at all observant—that what pain you inflict on your…

Just bumping this, as (as soon as I get home from this business trip) a number of medical bills are…

dduane : At Ebooks Direct: Summer Reading Sale’s still on! Just so everyone knows: the discounts are still in place! (Because, frankly, the author could really use some cash right now, due to having to shell out much cash to deal with ongoing health challenges that are leaving her rather strapped. Details down here.*) So anyway! If you’re not located in the UK (where, unfortunately, we…

please urgently help a trans man pick up his prescriptions

blogwoofz : please urgently help a trans man pick up his prescriptions im about to run out of my endometriosis meds which will be painful for me, and need my hrt as well. i had to overdraft my account to pay my rent ALT ALT ALT i have a pending ssi case that i was just able to get expedited, so i just need to be able to get through until then 205/220 anything helps a lot, even rbing c*shapp:…

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

tournevis-real : vulcartist : I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen