Monthly Archives: June 2007

Narcisstic Googling Reveals Interesting Results

6/30/2007 – 10:46 am

Every once in awhile I google myself to see what comes up and every so often I get a pleasant surprise or two.
Like the fact that Jim Henry put my story “From the Mouths of Babes” from F&SF March 2006 on his Hugo ballot. I don’t know Jim, but it’s nice to know he [...]

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Audio Gaffs

6/29/2007 – 10:57 am

I’m always astonished by pronunciation gaffs in audio books. I don’t expect the readers to pronounce everything correctly, but I do expect an audio editor to do some follow up. I mean, retakes have to be a necessity when recording 20 hours of reading, so I can’t figure out why these blips aren’t [...]

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Flattering the Argies

6/28/2007 – 10:18 pm

(sigh) Argentina 4, United States 1 in the Copa America. The United States certainly didn’t deserve to win, didn’t even deserve to draw, but 4-1 doesn’t reflect the game. Argentina had six or so clear-cut chances and took four of them. The United States had virtually none but did manage [...]

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A Hoop Not Jumped

6/28/2007 – 12:02 pm

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Faithful readers of this space will know this, but one of the requirements for my Ph.D. program in Creative Writing is proficiency in one foreign language (the Ph.D. in most Literary Studies programs requires two foreign languages) and for the last eight months or so I have been taken, and wildly enjoying, an [...]

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Laberinto del Fauno y Más

6/27/2007 – 9:32 am

Civil war at Chez Hergenrader. The wife insists that Pan’s Labyrinth is a movie geared towards adolescents and isn’t any scarier than The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth (the one starring David Bowie). And I’m arguing that she’s oh-so-wrong. Luckily, I’m right.
What a terrific movie though. I don’t think my attention wandered [...]

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The Buckhorn

6/26/2007 – 10:25 am

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Right, so we spent the weekend canoe camping (sort of) at Buckhorn State Park outside Mauston, WI. It’s really quite a short jaunt from Madison, a little under two hours one way. Clicking on any of the images below will give you a bigger picture.

Mapquest totally hosed [...]

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Weekend Action

6/25/2007 – 9:21 am

Ahoy! We were gone for the weekend to Buckhorn State Park having a wonderfully relaxing time. I stayed up last night catching up on Saturday’s UFC matches and Sunday’s Gold Cup final between the US and Mexico. I’ll post some pics of the weekend frivolities a little later.

I’m beginning to love [...]

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¡Vamos a Guatemala!

6/21/2007 – 10:03 am

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It’s done and dusted. Last night we booked tickets on American Airlines for $335/ea. round-trip from O’Hare to Guatemala City. We haven’t chosen a Spanish immersion school yet, but there are plenty. The ones with the highest ratings are booked but there are others that have overwhelmingly positive reviews that [...]

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The Truncated Post

6/20/2007 – 10:41 am

I was going to write a long, rambling post about Alexi Lalas’ comments about MLS being on par with the English Premier League, but happily Jen Chang over at Soccernet.com has already done it for me, except he’s concise. The basic points I wanted to make were:
* Lalas is doing this for publicity [...]

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FYI

6/19/2007 – 6:06 pm

The word count totaling feature in Word does not grow according to how often you check it. In fact, it seems like the longer you go without checking it, the bigger the word count when you finally come back to it.
Funny, that.

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