Blog Eugene Fischer | 30 Sep 2009
Days 10 and 11 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering the time she spent in Scotland. The combination of my grandmother’s handwriting being difficult, her spelling being frequently eccentric, and my own unfamiliarity with the proper nouns made these entries hard to transcribe. I think I managed to figure out all the places [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 29 Sep 2009
Days 6 through 9 of my grandmother’s 1936 cruise. Previously: Introduction, Part 1. S.S Duchess of Atholl Monday, June 29th [1936] This is the first bad day we have had since we’ve been abroad. The weather has been cold and foggy with quite a ghastly green choppy ocean. No one looks particularly chipper today and [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 29 Sep 2009
The first five days of my grandmother’s 1936 cruise abroad. I’m correcting minor spelling/writing errors, unless I think they are interesting. (For background information, read the introduction.) Michigan Central Train June 24, ’36 After a glorious send off by the Froehlichs, Newmans and my folks we left the 12th street station at 10:30 A.M. on [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Sep 2009
My parents recently reorganized their library, and while they were doing so they discovered my maternal grandmother’s diary from a trip abroad she took in 1936, at the age of 22. I knew my grandmother (whom I called “grandma”) as Doris Stein, but when she took this trip she was Doris C. Kaufmann. She wrote [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Sep 2009
So I posted to Twitter/Facebook Never tasted SPAM before, but I was just gifted a tin of it. Wild and ill-advised experimentation shall ensue. I got many amusing responses. First, from Nalo Hopkinson, @glorioushubris Try frying slices of it. Also helps if you’re pre-menstrual, but that might be more difficult to achieve. Then, on facebook [...]
Blog &Clarion &Fiction Eugene Fischer | 25 Sep 2009
To begin, other people’s good news: First, and long run most important, Mary Anne had a baby! Howdy, Anandan. Welcome to the world. Paul Berger sold one of his Clarion stories, “Small Burdens” to Strange Horizons. It should be showing up next year in the Spring, and it is a marvelous piece of work. Meghan [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 18 Sep 2009
The tiny computer in the trio was a Dell Mini 9, which I got for free from a friend who also got it for free. (He was the head of IT for a local construction company, and for a while was a high volume Dell customer. They were apparently handing out base system (4gig SSD, [...]
Tech Eugene Fischer | 17 Sep 2009
In that picture of two computers ganging up on another, smaller computer, the one in the middle is a Samsung N310, marketed in the US as the Samsung Go. It’s an Intel Atom based netbook with 1 gig of RAM, a 160 gig hard drive, and some very nice industrial design. A long time Apple [...]
Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 15 Sep 2009
I will probably write more about it in the future. But for now, a picture of what it looks like in progress. From left to right: DVD writer, Dell mini 9, Samsung N310, 13″ MacBook. This is going to be fun.
Fiction Eugene Fischer | 09 Sep 2009
Keffy’s last publication was in the print magazine Sybil’s Garage, so I couldn’t link to it. But this one is online at Apex Magazine. This was another of Keffy’s Clarion stories, and has one of the best first lines that showed up that summer. It is also, as so many of his stories are, suffused [...]
