shiny shiny things

[jazzfish]

Jo Walton has nice things to say about Metropolitan and City On Fire. In my dream world, Walter Jon Williams and Bill Schafer of Subterranean Press team up to offer gorgeous new editions of all three books, including the unwritten final volume.

Sitting and Standing at Work, an opposing viewpoint. "Sit to do computer work.... [E]very 20 minutes stand for 2 minutes AND MOVE." Eh. I'm a stand-up guy because I hate trying to get an office chair and keyboard tray and all that to the right position, and because if I'm sitting down I don't move. And I've not found my typing speed or accuracy to be notably worse while standing.

A Guide to Navigating NPR's Top 100 SF/Fantasy Books, in hilarious humongous JPEG flowchart format for your convenience.

In case FeministHulk wasn't enough of a reason for you to get a Twitter account solely for the purpose of following people, I present further inducement: Fafblog and GibletsIsAngry. "FBI to add FBI to FBI's list of wanted terrorists. 'We think we're closing in on us,' says FBI." Also, "Giblets is angry at ad hominems because they're stupid and ugly and stupid and who cares."

The Vancouver International Film Festival starts this weekend. The internet is currently failing me, so I shall have to pick up a printed program tomorrow.

Comments

[rbandrews]

I really like that flowchart. I'm surprised at how much of the starboard side I've read; I expected to have only read two or three books on the whole thing because that's usually how things like that work.

[jazzfish]

Yeah, they did a good job. Both with the flowchart and the general broadness of the list.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

My boss has started standing at his desk, which is in the opposite corner from the door of his office. Every time I pass by, it looks like the final scene in The Blair Witch Project.

[jazzfish]

*snrk*

I will say that the last, say, three minutes of that movie were actually scary and worth the price of admission. Not sure if they were worth the hour and a half leadup.