Most of these things have little to do with me

[thanate]

So there was this write-a-thon thing I was all signed up for, and then there was this other thing I'm not quite prepared to talk about yet (only, this one is more-or-less positive, rather than the other thing I'm not talking about, which definitely isn't) and I've been doing a silly amount of napping, and almost nothing related to writing at all. I did send a couple things back out into the submission queues, and I've been (finally!) working on my website. Or, I've been working on trying to get the grauwulf to design templates for my website, since I want a couple things that my rudimentary HTML skills won't cover, and the addition of a second person who wants to do other stuff with his time slows down the process considerably. So, it may or may not be up by Readercon, and I may or may not have little business cards arrive before I leave either. But so it goes. I can always print up something simple the night before if I care that much. And I have no idea if there will be anyone I want to give cards to anyway.

So, things that are interesting, which is to say unlike I am at present:

Hue test! See how well you can order closely related colors. I found this absolutely fascinating. I also got a 3 (something broke down in the middle of the blue-green spectrum.) These facts may be related.

Anatomy of a Dragon available as desktop designs from Tor.com. The book sounds like it'll worth investigating, too.

How to put a modern rover on Mars: Curiosity's "seven minutes of terror." I hate video links, but you must watch this. Good lord. And we're going to be at pennsic when this goes down.

Doggerland, ie, once upon a time before Britain was an island. This is cool, in that sort of tantalizing "but, where are my links to more information!" sort of way. There's a little more on the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition site (which I just found via google) under "drowned landscapes" (and a bunch of other things that look cool!) but I am sad the exhibit doesn't look to be packing up and going anywhere else after it ends this weekend.

...and some fiction, by people I know:

Feed the Meter by Nicole Feldringer. Bite sized! Silly! Involves a honey badger!

Ironheart from alecaustin, which is Alec's usual fare of horrible and morbid and kind of sweet in a way that doesn't trip my "argh, this is awful!" alarms. Even if it has got a boy-Kade, which confuses me.

Comments

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Your link has inadvertently reminded me that I want to go to that Royal Society event this weekend! Yes good. Thank you.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Cool! You should write up a review, especially about the doggerland bits. :)

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to Nicole's story - clearly I wasn't paying attention when that went up!

Marie Brennan/swan_tower is in my writing group, and though I haven't read A Natural History of Dragons yet, I expect nothing but the best from it.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Nicole's story came across twitter a while back; possibly before you were even on it? Anyway, clearly I don't get around to mentioning these things often enough.

I've heard good things about Marie Brennan, but she's still on the (very long) list of people I haven't quite gotten around to looking up yet. This one sounds quite promising, though. :)