ARDIAN IS SUPPOSED TO BE AT NYCC i had no idea. kirby told me. i hadn’t even looked at the guest list because i thought the idea was pleasant but so far-fetched there was no point *bursts into tears of excitement* eta: aww, looks like circumstances will probably prevent him from making it. guess i’ll have to be hysterical some other time… :)
exploded bread
I exploded my bread. (Apparently when I took the dishcloth off the top, it tore the far side of the bread. Which I couldn’t see, what with it being the far side, and it baked that way. Oops. Smells heavenly, though.) (photo taken with my new phone. I gotta get an app to upload straight to Flickr. (Since I loathe Picasa.)) (I have decided the humane thing to do is chop off the explody bit and eat it with butter and jam. *looks noble*)
Crowdfunding: Other Peoples’ Projects
TA Pratt’s GRIM TIDES Kickstarter campaign is in its last 48 hours, and has a measly $400 to reach $11K. Go go gadget fundraiser! Sharon Lee & Steven Miller have posted their latest Splinter Universe short story. Sharon & Steve’s crowdfunding efforts are part of what turned me on to the whole idea in the first place, so clearly I think they’re made of awesome. :) Liz Williams, who consistently runs crowdfunding projects I wish I’d thought of, is running two right now. One is a commissioned short story for…
movies!
I saw four movies in the theatre last week. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen four movies in the theatre in a week, although I did see X2 3 times opening weekend, which…well, certainly gives me geek cred, anyway. :) First two were a double feature of Terminator and T2 at the Screen Cinema in Dublin. I’d never seen Terminator on the big screen (being 11 and in Kenai, Alaska when it came out, although apparently I was at the theatre for something else when it came out, because I…
just taking a moment…
…to be happy. Again. Still. Whatever. I got pointed at the AV Club’s Kurt Vonnegut tribute again a couple days ago, and could not help, as usual, to notice that people really don’t do enough of this: “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” So I like to when I notice I’m happy, which really is quite a lot. I’ve got a family and a job I love, and…