Writing!

Word count so far this morning, 148, not counting notes to myself. That's the first on this novel since last March, though; I also did some rereading to figure out about where things stand.

Further posts along this line will be in the "talk about writing" filter; if you're on my friends list and want to opt in, just say so.

Addendum: if you post regularly about writing, you're probably already in that filter.

Writing!

Word count so far this morning, 148, not counting notes to myself. That's the first on this novel since last March, though; I also did some rereading to figure out about where things stand.

Further posts along this line will be in the "talk about writing" filter; if you're on my friends list and want to opt in, just say so.

Addendum: if you post regularly about writing, you're probably already in that filter.

Reconsidering filter

Considering how many people want to be in the writing filter, I'm thinking seriously of not filtering those posts, just putting "Writing" in the header so those who aren't interested can skip them.

Reconsidering filter

Considering how many people want to be in the writing filter, I'm thinking seriously of not filtering those posts, just putting "Writing" in the header so those who aren't interested can skip them.

Exercise and NYRSF

I went to the gym in the afternoon so I could go to the NY Review of SF weekly meeting afterwards. It was a small gathering: womzilla, agrumer, bugsybanana, me, and eventually David Hartwell. We read manuscripts, chatted, and eventually other people started working on sending out review copies. I left then, because I had been getting colder and colder during the meeting.

By the time I got uptown, it was not only snowing, but painfully cold, even with the long underwear and all. I made myself hot chocolate (9:00 is too late for tea to be prudent) and decided that I'm not going outside again tonight unless the building catches fire. I can smell chili heating on the stove.

( Gym numbers, as usual )

Exercise and NYRSF

I went to the gym in the afternoon so I could go to the NY Review of SF weekly meeting afterwards. It was a small gathering: womzilla, agrumer, bugsybanana, me, and eventually David Hartwell. We read manuscripts, chatted, and eventually other people started working on sending out review copies. I left then, because I had been getting colder and colder during the meeting.

By the time I got uptown, it was not only snowing, but painfully cold, even with the long underwear and all. I made myself hot chocolate (9:00 is too late for tea to be prudent) and decided that I'm not going outside again tonight unless the building catches fire. I can smell chili heating on the stove.

( Gym numbers, as usual )

More on that fingerprinting proposal

(This is a duplicate of what I just posted to my Weblog, because yonmei and brisingamen have had discussions of this in their journals)

Bruce Schneier explains why
fingerprinting visitors to the US will not make us safe.

Security is a trade-off. When deciding whether to implement a security measure, we must balance the costs against the benefits. Large-scale fingerprinting is something that doesn't add much to our security against terrorism and costs an enormous amount of money that could be better spent elsewhere. Allocating the funds on compiling, sharing and enforcing the terrorist watch list would be a far better security investment. As a security consumer, I'm getting swindled....

It's bad civic hygiene to build an infrastructure that can be used to facilitate a police state.

More on that fingerprinting proposal

(This is a duplicate of what I just posted to my Weblog, because yonmei and brisingamen have had discussions of this in their journals)

Bruce Schneier explains why
fingerprinting visitors to the US will not make us safe.

Security is a trade-off. When deciding whether to implement a security measure, we must balance the costs against the benefits. Large-scale fingerprinting is something that doesn't add much to our security against terrorism and costs an enormous amount of money that could be better spent elsewhere. Allocating the funds on compiling, sharing and enforcing the terrorist watch list would be a far better security investment. As a security consumer, I'm getting swindled....

It's bad civic hygiene to build an infrastructure that can be used to facilitate a police state.