June 2011
A few things →
1. After last week’s disastrous end of class, today’s trampoline class went well for M. Thank goodness.
2. I would like to draw your attention to a couple of podcasts –
SF Squeecast, a…
Kids, CONvergence, and fatality aviation... →
1. Re-entry from the kids having summer camps last week, back to having normal routines, this is going about as well as you’d expect. J tells me that both children appear to have forgotten all…
why I don’t post so much in the summer →
When work is busy, I have less to say about it. When work is slow, I can tell you all about the tv show I watched on my breaks, or this podcast I listened to, or the book I am reading, or the…
Wednesday is for miscellany, and links →
1. My mom, my sister, and her two kids are visiting this week! This is excellent, I haven’t seen my niece and nephew since last summer.
2. M has got to learn to not play games that involve gentle…
Wiscon: My Moments of Fail (that I know of) →
1. While in the Green Room, getting ready for the Diversity in Comics panel, I said that comics fandom is still overwhelmingly white. Two of my (white) copanelists corrected me, as did a woman of…
Wiscon panel notes →
I’m not going to write up each panel. Here is the excerpted Good Bits version of my panel notes.
Beyond Victoriana:
On Cultural Appropriation –
“the process by which ‘The West’ separates forms…
