Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based military contractor, got fired yesterday for a photograph of flag-draped coffins on their way back to the States that was published in Sunday’s Seattle Times. The story and the photograph are here. The Memory Hole, a site I’d never heard of until this morning (a site which is running very, *very* slowly indeed, for me at least) appealed to Dover AFB, where most of the US military bodies are processed, under the Freedom of Information Act, and was first denied but upon appeal granted 360 photos…
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ow ow son of a *bitch* ow
Ow, god *damn* it. This canker sore on my tongue is in such a place that when I eat I find myself trying to cringe away from my own head, which, y’know, doesn’t work. It is in such a place that not just my tongue hurts, but also my throat and my inner ear hurt when I eat. God, this reallly *sucks*. On the positive side, I feel thin this morning. o.O
editeditedit
Did a hundred pages of US editing tonight, where editing is equal to ‘fixed sentence structures and occasionally highlighted big swaths and said PUT MORE DETAIL HERE’, as per revision letter. I’m not going to be able to be certain of where to put more detail until I’ve re-read the whole manuscript, which I haven’t done in … a long time. Some places are easy, many others I keep thinking “there’s somewhere better a little further in”, but I don’t really know because I haven’t read it in quite a…
business cards
Inspired partly by the conference this weekend, where it was clear having business cards would’ve been useful, and partly by my brother-in-law Gavin’s grandfather, who introduces himself as John T. Mendel, Famous Scientist, I have created a business card for myself. :)
I’m Batman!
I’m Batman! Rock on!