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  • Big realisations for the day

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    Realisation #1: there’s an event in the Great Unsaleable novel that I’ve had pegged as the end-of-act-1 event. Trouble is, of course, this means Act 1 is about 50,000 words long (if Scrivener is to be believed). I’ve tried shifting stuff out to the later acts, but a lot of it makes no sense that…

  • Charles

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    Having Charlie Brown suddenly not there is like losing one of the landmarks that lets you know you’re home. One of my favourite Charles memories: fossicking in that library of his while he told me secrets about Gene Wolfe and Carter Brown. God damn.

  • Lost & found

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    A moment of early-morning panic today when I couldn’t find my marvellous new phone (with the camera) — currently the only item I really love. But then I remembered: it was plugged into my computer. (What’s next, wireless technology?!) So I’ll still be able to take it on my daily adventures to places like the…

  • Dawn of a new era

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    I’ve never been considered ‘an early adopter’, & so it’s only THIS year that I’ve gotten me one of them new-fangled phones with the cameras in them. (What’s next? Microwaves with clocks?!) It’s not a great camera, particularly in low light, but one thing it does have: portability. In today’s unexpected adventures, a photo of…

  • Tall glass of water

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    Typing has been slowed at chateau deborahb owing to an altercation with a glass of cold water over the weekend. It’s hard to say who won. Me, I ended up with five stitches in my wrist (& post-traumatic flashbacks to the moment I thought I was dead). The glass of water, however, wound up in…

  • Job lot

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    There’s something reassuring about being jobless in a sea of joblessness. Nobody asks you much about *why* you’re jobless. The same string of suspicious questions you usually face about your peripatetic approach to the day job don’t come up. Oh, sure, they still pose the usual ‘why did you leave your last role’, but once…

  • It’s my birthday!

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    Which leads to one crucial question: where is the best cake in Sydney?

  • And not a moment too soon

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    I have updated my website! A cobbler’s children are always the last to have new shoes, & seeing as I used to make websites, naturally I had a bulk of day-job distaste for the idea of re-designing my own site. But once I installed the WordPress blog, I realised a new design had to go…

  • Links: Katrina

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    From body_impolitic: And then there’s the other truth: Racism has always been used to divide people from other people with common interests, and it’s a very useful tool. African-American poet and writer Audre Lorde, self-described “Black lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” said, “The master’s tools will not dismantle the master’s house.” Divisiveness is one of the…

  • Burning Man Just Got Safer

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    Which is good, because strangedave & doctor_k_ will be there this year. Hinkamp, who works as a Burning Man volunteer, said he was riding his bike away from the crowd gathered for the torching of the tall wooden sculpture that marks the festival when he saw the clown coming toward him. “He pushed me over…