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Quasi-daily linkage
10 Weird Miniature Versions of Normal Animals – Weird Worm – These are quite adorable. Puppy! – Joel on Software – "Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long." Don't know if I'd be as grumpy about it, but Twitter strikes me as yet another source of digital noise in an already noisy world. I may be done with it soon. "5 Browsers and the Modes of Transportation They Resemble" by Caldwell Tanner on CollegeHumor –…
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“Breached defenses” posted
Back to Witches this week for “Breached defenses“: Hardi blinked. “I think I’m done here,” she muttered as she stood with her tray. “Have a good day, Dr. Yuk.” “Robert,” he said around another mouthful of food, “and it really helps if you soften the ‘u’. Make it just a bit more like ‘yook’ than ‘yuck’.” Hardi looked down at him. “Yuk,” she said, trying it out as he suggested. “Yup,” he said with a nod. “See, it’s much less interesting that way. You’ll be bored with ‘Yuk’ and onto ‘Robert’ soon.” He grinned impishly. This is part three of the Witches series.
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“Expanding Borders” posted
Got a new Transhuman Congress story posted, this one finally introducing — sort of — the leader of the majority party, Chelsea Sears. “Expanding Borders“: The doctors told me that I was stuck in my own head. I wasn’t. I was in the nets all the time, doing ten things at once with a bunch of people. I was rarely ever alone. “Terminal absorption” was what the doctors called it. Despite what the vids showed, very few people had personalities really obsessive enough to be likely to fall to it. This is one of my few attempts at first-person narrative, and while it think it works for this character and…
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Three fun things on dance-day
In reverse order of occurrence: Assmar makes me do funny things Like ride down the highway in 40-degree weather with the windows down and the heat blasting at the floorboards. The cool air lowers my body temperature (bad cooldown after hip-hop) and the hot air keeps my lungs from seizing up in the cold. Seems weird to me.
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“The welcome goodbye” posted
Well, it’s not quite still Saturday, but as promised, here’s a new Witches story, called “The welcome goodbye“: “Harding.” Hardi stopped pacing. “Why are you so hot under the collar for this project?” Jim asked quietly. Hardi opened and closed her mouth. “I just… I want to do something about this.” Now I’m going to bed. Zzz.