I watched Star Trek: Into Darkness. I’m a fan, grew up watching it with my dad, so I’ve been through the whole ride. I find a couple of things bothered me, but strangely the movie is growing on me. A bunch of things kind of bothered me right off the bat, but now I’m figuring out that there are a ... Read More »
I wish cars had a button for a nice horn. So you can like say, Hey neighbor! Or, sure, I see you – you can cross. (had a biker need to make a left turn in front of me with heavy traffic in a 25 mile an hour zone) or I saw that awesome thing you did. Yes, you can ... Read More »
I’m redoing the theme of my blog. It may be messy for a while, especially since I have a lot else on my plate. Read More »
And planted. I worked every day last week for this. Before I committed, I learned that in the beginning it would take about twenty hours a week. Well, that’s if you aren’t working with an old garden plot that needs to be weeded. I have probably spent about forty hours on this ground. We got a lot out last fall, ... Read More »
In honor of the new book I’m writing, I’ve started a new blog! It’s about molecular biology, which I love. But I will keep it pretty narrow to that topic and probably not start musing about writing or mothering, or knitting (have I mused about that yet? Don’t think so). You can find it here: http://moleculesofourlives.blogspot.com/ Also, I’m on pinterest ... Read More »
I’ve been doing some developing of a novel that will feature a devout Mormon family, faced with questions of personhood, the singularity, etc. Writing it in reaction to such novels as Accelerando by Charles Stross. I’m a little tired of cynical, secular (and somewhat anti-religious) singularity novels. That fact is, devout religious people will still be here and will not ... Read More »
Ran across an interesting article at Science Daily Ironic Effects of Anti-Predjudice Message The summary is that after reading literature (controlling language) that told people they shouldn’t be predjudice, talking about all the negative consequences, people were MORE likely to engage in predjudism later on. But if they read literature describing a person’s positive experiences (personal language) with not being ... Read More »
Besides running Geekatplay, Vladimir is a UI geek. He’s a good one too. One of the few that keeps up the art and the programming side of things. The programming sides of things is constantly changing. Technologies improve and grow and the programmers have to follow. A big indicator of how up to date a programmer or other kind of IT geek ... Read More »
Feminist Science Fiction Writer I guess that’s what I am. I believe in equality for women, and I write science fiction. I think we need to celebrate women who write science fiction and fantasy. But I’m also a stay at home mom, with four kids. Four brilliant, gifted children. This takes time from my day. I’ve been married for 20 years with one ... Read More »
A pretty shirt. That was all I’d wanted. Some little extra bit of pizazz for Conduit, the local science fiction convention. I decided this on the way back home from dropping kids off to school before I picked up my husband for our youngest’s kindergarten graduation. The home to school commute is half an hour. The month has been freakishly busy. So ... Read More »
Over the Dither and Through the Words