Monday, December 1st, 2008

Time	Event
8:28a	The Annotated Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse #2 Chris Sims annotates another issue of the Anita Blake comic book. Wait, Sims is only 26? That means that when he started doing the ISB he was only ... ? Gah. (9 Comments | Comment on this)
8:39a	Mike Brown's daughter and the Planets When I was Lilah Brown's age, not only did I not know the names of the planets, I had not even mastered language. I'm not sure when I did learn about the planets, to be truthful. I definitely knew by grade two but how I came to learn about them I am not sure. Wait, I do remember going to the UW observatory in Grade One (and not being able to see much, a recurring theme of my childhood since I didn't get my glasses until Grade Three). (13 Comments | Comment on this)
9:58a	George C. Chesbro (1940-2008) Wikipedia's disappointingly short entry on Chesbro, who should have been better known than he was. He died on November 18th but I only just heard. Chesbro's website has a collection of tributes. Chesbro's primary character was Dr. Robert "Mongo" Frederickson, a.k.a. Mongo the Magnificent, "a criminologist, ex-circus headliner, martial-arts expert, and private eye, who also happens to be a dwarf" (to quote Chesbro's site). For some reason the people willing to hire a dwarf PI generally don't have normal PI-type cases and so Mongo and his brother found themselves dealing with sorcerers, mad scientists and the real power behind the Republican Party. Nicked from supergee (10 Comments | Comment on this)
12:56p	For the Fairest (1) Poll #1307375 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 91 If you had to pick the best decade for SF, which decade would you pick? View Answers 1920s 0 (0.0%) 1930s 0 (0.0%) 1940s 4 (4.4%) 1950s 13 (14.3%) 1960s 27 (29.7%) 1970s 12 (13.2%) 1980s 11 (12.1%) 1990s 15 (16.5%) 2000s 9 (9.9%) I'm using SF in the narrow sense and discarding everything from before Gernsbeck tried to name that thing that we read. I'll trust people to be able to tell the difference between SF and F to their own satisfaction and not to clutter this up with arguments about where the border is. I'm a little conflicted on this because while I think the 1970s were the best decade to discover SF, a lot of what I was discovering came from the 1960s and 1950s. (35 Comments | Comment on this)
1:00p	For the Fairest (2) Poll #1307376 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 84 What was the worst decade for SF View Answers 1920s 26 (31.0%) 1930s 7 (8.3%) 1940s 5 (6.0%) 1950s 4 (4.8%) 1960s 1 (1.2%) 1970s 15 (17.9%) 1980s 11 (13.1%) 1990s 5 (6.0%) 2000s 10 (11.9%) (36 Comments | Comment on this)
1:24p	Doctor Who: Turn Left "Chino-World"? spoilers, I guess, for the inclusion of one character ( Read more... ) (10 Comments | Comment on this)
3:10p	I don't know what to make of this Jann Arden's voice in her cover of Son of a Preacher Man sounds like Dolly Parton's. (5 Comments | Comment on this)
3:24p	Another question What does the phrase "traditional ladies' education" mean to you in the context of this ad? (34 Comments | Comment on this)
6:12p	Oddly in keeping with the specifications in the personals ad linked to previously Female artist’s belly too fat for record label (19 Comments | Comment on this)
6:37p	Dion to head coalition of parties The Liberals and New Democrats signed an agreement on Monday to form an unprecedented coalition government, with a written pledge of support from the Bloc Québécois, if they are successful in ousting the minority Conservative government in a coming confidence vote. (9 Comments | Comment on this)
6:52p	Out of idle curiousity Because even if a coalition government is formed, I don't expect it to lead to the unification of the Liberals and NDP any more than it did in Ontario in the 1980s: What happens to the results in the last election if you sum the Liberal and NDP votes in each riding? (4 Comments | Comment on this)

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