Blog Eugene Fischer | 12 Jan 2011
This is not common practice for me, but I have been drawn out of my poetry-opaque shell. You see, John Scalzi is currently running a contest the winner of which will be Tuckerized in his next book. The challenge: For the contest, write a haiku from the point of view of some who is either about [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 07 Jan 2011
Time to thin out my browser window. I keep meaning to find time to watch Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s presentation on OpenLeaks, his proposed Wikileaks offshoot project. Franklin Veaux (who writes a lot about polyamory and BDSM at his site) has made a fascinating map of nonmonogamy. I found this via Dr. Marty Klein’s excellent blog, Sexual Intelligence. [...]
Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 05 Jan 2011
That last picture I posted was a little graphic. I wouldn’t want anyone to get the idea that my new computer is strictly an opportunistic predator. I assure you, it can be socialized. Here we see it enjoying a glass of gewürztraminer and the composition of some new fiction. You see? That one little evisceration [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 26 Dec 2010
As my Asus Eee netbook committed the kind of suicide that fills the room with the smell of burning plastic, I’ve switched to an 11-inch MacBook Air for on-the-go computing. My background on the Asus was an image from Shaun Tan’s Tales Of Outer Suburbia, made available by Tor.com when he was nominated for the Best [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 15 Dec 2010
On Twitter, Annalee Newitz draws attention to “one of the most heinous things I have ever read.” It’s a paper by a Dr. Rhawn Joseph, printed in the fringe publication “Journal of Cosmology.” The paper is ostensibly about sex in space, but is really about safe handling of the Dangerous Human Sex Object, with its fragile internal [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 07 Sep 2010
This is Hermine, who came to visit Bexar county today. Thank you for not destroying the car I bought yesterday, Hermine, like you did several other people’s cars. And power lines. And houses. First time in 25 years I’ve lived in San Antonio that we’ve gotten a direct hit from a tropical storm.
Amusing &Blog Eugene Fischer | 14 Aug 2010
Clever, Google. Very clever.
Blog &News &Video Eugene Fischer | 10 Aug 2010
Here’s a roundup of some things that are worthy of note. • The very best thing to happen recently is Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, overturning prop 8 and granting homosexuals the right to marry in California. The whole decision can be downloaded here, but there are articles all over the place [...]
Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 25 Jul 2010
Driving down the highway yesterday I passed a man riding a sufficiently unusual device that I pulled my car off the road and walked back along the shoulder to investigate. The man turned out to be John MacTaggart, the CEO of Pterosail Trike Systems, and he is in the process of riding one of his company’s [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 09 Jun 2010
My parents recently had the carpet on the second floor of their house replaced. My father’s office is up there, historically a dense and chaotic ecosystem of files and books and four decades of computer electronics. All of this had to be temporarily clearcut for the carpet to be changed, and as my father reconstitutes [...]
