Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 21 Aug 2011
A few months ago there was a meme on Facebook that I particularly liked. The core of it read: I would like my Facebook friends to comment on this status, sharing how you met me. But I want you to LIE. That’s right, just make it up. After you comment, copy this to your status, [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 19 Jul 2011
I was reading through the archives of Chatological Humor, Gene Weingarten’s regular Q&A on the Washington Post site, and ran across a comment from 2009 (by someone identified only as “Hmph”) that was worth saving. Recall that in 2009 there was much news discussion of whether the US was taking prisoners to countries with lenient [...]
Amusing &Art &Basketball &Blog &News &Video Eugene Fischer | 02 Jul 2011
On Robert Krulwich’s NPR blog, a post about the shape of stories as drawn by Kurt Vonnegut. Includes one of my favorite science cartoons ever. The Genderfloomp Reading List. I won a copy of Whipping Girl as my prize for being Best Dressed. I’ve only read the introduction so far, but it looks very good. [...]
Blog &SF/F Eugene Fischer | 03 Jun 2011
After a year away I returned to my first and favorite SF convention, WisCon. I last attended in 2008, and had such a good experience that I sent Nalo Hopkinson flowers as thanks for having convinced me to go despite my incredulity. As good as 2008 was, this year was even better. A big part [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 04 May 2011
About a month ago, the PBS Newshour ran a segment about the 75th anniversary of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the oldest writing MFA program in the country. At 1:16 in the above video, the segment cuts to workshop director Samantha Chang standing in an office filled with crates full of manuscripts in red folders, explaining [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 11 Feb 2011
LGBTQ Newsblog Revel & Riot — I like the layout of this news/culture aggregator. Two side by side columns, one for things to celebrate and one for things to decry. Manqué — Useful word. I sometimes think of myself as a physicist manqué. A blog post on botanical “fascination” “Omega and why Math has no [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 21 Jan 2011
Remember how I wrote a haiku last week for a contest to have my name given to a character in John Scalzi’s next novel? I won. That’ll do, haiku. That’ll do.
Blog &Video Eugene Fischer | 18 Jan 2011
Work is consuming my days and rehearsal for the sketch show I’m going to be in come February is consuming my nights, leaving me largely offline. To kill some time, please enjoy a favorite cartoon from my childhood, “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics.” It’s a collaboration between Chuck Jones (of [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 13 Jan 2011
This is not my first blog. There have been others, some euthanized and some abandoned. The ruins of my former blogs are filled with rotten links and gutted by expired hosting. There is, though, an occasional post worth saving. This was originally posted on May 14, 2008. — Some time in 2005 I was studying [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 13 Jan 2011
Remember Rhawn Joseph, the misogynist creationist crackpot who runs with the wolves? His paper on concubine husbandry for Our Men in Space has just been given a highly credulous writeup by the science and tech news aggregator, Slashdot. Shame on you, Slashdot. I’d encourage others who typically enjoy the site to comment against it being turned [...]
