Paris is removing the famed (or infamous) Love Locks from the Pont des Arts across the Seine ((Just north of Ile de la Cité , the island containing Notre Dame cathedral.)). People are not happy about it. Word is that Paris will also start the same sort of work on the Pont de l’Archevêché, where the …
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First Haircut
We waited a while for his first haircut. Here’s the before image.
Hugo Voting is Open; Use No Award Wisely
The 2015 Hugo Ballot is open for voting. If you’re a member of Sasquan, you get to vote. Put in your $40 for a supporting membership and register your opinion on what the best of the nominated works are. If you buy a supporting membership to Sasquan, you’re also eligible to nominate for next year! …
Hugo Nominations, Sad Puppies, and Vox Day
If you don’t know what’s going on with the Hugos, go here. Or here. Or here. The organizers and supporters of the Sad Puppies slate are complaining that they’re being unfairly conflated with the Rapid Puppies slate created by Vox Day. I’m going to leave it as an exercise for the reader to investigate the …
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Photos from Dunwoody/Sandy Springs
I was out taking some pictures for a project. Got these, too.
Not Looking Forward to Game of Thrones Season Six
Last night we put our money where our mouth was and paid to join HBO Now/Go/Whatever in order to watch Game of Thrones season five. Thanks, HBO, for listening! But that’s not what this is about. I am not at all looking forward to 2016 and the next season of Game of Thrones. Why? Because …
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Welcome to Nightvale!
Last weekend we attended the Atlanta live performance of Welcome to Nightvale. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a deliciously weird podcast program set in the fictional town/city of Nightvale, which is set in the desert of America (somewhere). The best way I’ve found to describe Nightvale is it’s the place where all the …
Hugos and Pinecone
The pinecone has nothing to do with the Hugos, I just think it’s a good picture that I snapped this morning while taking some project photos ((For amusement, you might want to check out a tweet I made about these photos. )). Yesterday, George R. R. Martin chimed in on the current Hugo/Sad Puppy kerfuffle. …
Clarke Award vs. Sad Puppies
13:25 UPDATE at bottom I find it interesting that of the five novels on the Sad Puppy Slate, exactly zero were submitted for review for the Clarke Awards. This could mean a few different things: No one bothered to submit them No one submitted them because, wow, they weren’t going to win They’ve not been …
2015 Clarke Award Shortlist
With all the hullabaloo over the Hugos, it’s easy to miss the fact that they are not the only award for Science Fiction. The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in Britain. The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from …