From Twitter 12-06-2010

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Not so much disordered as permanently wrecked

I’ve been doing the 4 AM wake, write, go to the dayjob, come home, and have free evenings thing for a few months. As a practice it works quite well. Unfortunately, it’s about to stop being sustainable for the next six months because of other scheduling factors.

Thus far I’ve apparently traded productive chronic terminal insomnia for unproductive chronic sleep-onset insomnia. Augh. Hate.

Note to self: 750 words tonight or the firefox gets it. Or something.

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On this date in 1941, my grandfather was on (or at least assigned to) the USS Pennsylvania.

In spite of all of the ways I fear he’d loathe me were he still living, I’m about to set his machete out, light a candle, and have a drink to honor him. Ancestor reverence is hard sometimes.

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- Holy crap, BEES. I can’t look away.

- Winter being well and truly here, the Salvation Army has arrived. Coincidentally, so has a misleading scare e-mail about charitable organizations and CEO wages. Copperbadge, Prince of Research and friend of the non-profit sector, debunks it hard.

- Two things about ebooks: Jim C. Hines on the “runaway success” of his freshly electrified out-of-print mainstream novel, Goldfish Dreams. Ann Somerville on how Smashwords works.

- Topping the list of things I miss: principled politics which respects the separation of church and state and considers it a social good.

- Two things about transness: transwoman assaulted at Kohl’s, police more or less ignore it, and a call for feedback/assist from someone who’d like to start a “genderplayful marketplace.” Think Etsy for the gender variant set.

- How much carbon and money would it cost for Clarkesworld to only handle paper submissions? This much, maybe.

- This strip from A Softer World made me choke on my tea in all the right ways. Be sure to hover your mouse cursor over the image for the alt text.

- The TSA saves us again, this time against dangerous mothers and their nasty terrorist breast milk.

- Possibly the only nice thing ever to come from the Daily Mail: Lioness v. Pangolin.

- Word problems helped build civilization as we know it. Much as I stopped being a maths wonk right around the time I started being treated like an idiot in maths class, I always liked word problems. Turn something into a game and my right brain is on it like a lioness on a…damn. Forget that analogy. It’s rubbish. Er.

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