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Truly: Is this what you made me for? (27 March 2009)
An important note for users of the Samsung ML-4050ND laser printer: If you configure the paper type on the Samsung ML-4050ND to "Recycled," it thinks you mean that you are printing on the unused side of sheets that have already been printed on one side. Of course you don't want to print on the already-printed side, so it will helpfully disable the duplexer in this case, no matter what else you do. If you are printing on actual recycled paper, that is to say, paper made from recycled fibres, and you want duplex printing, then you must set your paper type to "Plain Paper." Of course, nothing in the Samsung, CUPS, Foomatic, or Ghostscript documentation, nor in the comments or content of any manufacturer or third-party PPD file (should you be crazy enough to hack PPD files manually), is remotely helpful in debugging this issue.
(1 March 2009)
Visual Land VL-878 tips and tricks: I bought a Visual Land VL-878 portable audio/video player recently, and had some adventures trying to get it to work. I'm collecting the results of my trial and error on this page so that others with this or similar devices can save themselves some trouble.
(22 February 2009)
Review: The Manga Guide to Statistics: The other day I saw a girl wearing a shirt with the slogan "Will yuri for yaoi," and I thought, hey, wouldn't it be funnier if it were a boy wearing the same shirt, just to get the extra level of non sequitur value? As for No Starch Press, they sent me a free review copy of The Manga Guide to Statistics, and it's close enough to the kinds of topics I cover that I figured it'd be worth writing a review.
(6 December 2008)
Lilith: While attempting to avoid a fire drill at my apartment building, I spent most of today in the University library reading a book I selected by intuition. That's an exercise that has served me well in the past, for instance by providing the seed for my short story He lei nalu ho`okahi in a Hawai`ian dictionary. Today the book I chose was Lilith by George MacDonald. It's from 1895, and available online through Project Gutenberg. It reminded me a lot of my own novel Cross Product and readers who like one will probably like the other.
(5 September 2008)
Manga reviews: I'm generally more a fan of anime than of manga, but I bought a stack of manga at Anime North and figured I might as well post reviews of the books as I finish them.
(10 August 2008)
Technical Analysis: The difference I can't plausibly deny. (6 March 2008)
Broken John and Hekka: Yeah, leave them because too scared to deal with what would come out of the ground if you disturbed the tree roots holding it down! (31 October 2006)
Sparrow Apples: He gathered several and stuck them into a foil-lined saddle bag anyway, though. (1 December 2005)
The delivery man and his death: If you could only understand what counts as an invitation anymore, well. (29 November 2005)
John he said: John he said you never gotta stop dreaming, all a comfort my mind. (2 March 2005)
Almost every time: You said you trusted me always (2 March 2005)
Quadra 403: With your blue skin and yellow teeth, smiling like a paper shredder. (28 February 2005)
They don't like geneticists: The mani is actually supposed to go right across the Solar disc as viewed from Earth, and you bet the client will be watching it with a telescope, so there's no possibility of fudging it. (30 November 2004)
Will McCarthy and the Screaming Avocados: Eighteen lives all together counting the kitten as nine even though he was very small. (9 November 2004)
Race: I wonder why the Turtle thinks this is so important? (21 October 2004)
Counting coup: So kill me with a feather. (21 June 2004)
Omnia basis vestri a nobis habeo estis: Ab Anno Domini MMCI, Bellum inciabaris. (10 February 2004)
Pink and gold: If a bag of fleem, even an almost-full one, was all he lost in this move, it would be his best move to date. (1 December 2003)
The Number 13 Road: You don't even want to have to ask? You want to be asked? Well, now we're going to go a step past that. (31 October 2003)
Chasing: latent mysogyny what did you barter for nothing to legislate chasing the clam (15 March 2003)
Sad-Eyed Joe: There are those who say he studied too hard, solved a forbidden equation, and opened a gateway to a universe of eternal torment and non-convergence! (31 October 2002)
It only takes NAND: You probably think we huddle up in our nests, conserving warmth and moving very slowly, living on stored food, and it's true that those of you who think you have us domesticated can open the frames and look in and think you see us. (10 October 2002)
The sing-song of unknown Kadath: They were grey and they were rubbery and dined upon corpses. (11 August 2002)
Found not found: good morning class not found (20 June 2002)
Henry and Eliza: Henry's gaze slid hungrily down the curves of Eliza's naked silicone body. His five grand had been well spent, oh yes. (7 June 2002)
Row of pins: The film loop stops repeating and I see her wrist pulled out of my hands, she's pulling her wrist from my hands, and the record ends. (17 April 2002)
Unicorn poem #2: And while I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony. (3 April 2002)
Eight knights of the dragon: Maybe the eight knights of the dragon had real flesh and blood like you and me. (20 February 2002)
The Martian opinion: Normally, he'd have been greeted with boos and thrown drinking glasses, but right now everyone wanted to hear the Martian opinion on the Human's rash claims. (29 December 2001)
My window is on the ceiling; all I can see is the sky: Strange things happen when the full moon draws near. (29 September 2001)
The importance of open-source drivers: hermaphrodite parasite space worm (5 May 2001)
Ramen: One night at the convenience store. (30 March 2001)
Journal of Intercelestial Fly Fishing (2) "Lady Midnight": Wherein the Journal editors indulge a flight of fancy. (9 March 2001)
Journal of Intercelestial Fly Fishing (1) "A curious catch": Wherein Dm. Anonymous comments on her illegal fishery. (9 March 2001)
The Other channels: the unnumbered ones that they don't list in TV Guide. (26 January 2001)
The Reverend John Pickett and the damage done: Welcome, everyone, to the God Is Dead Church. (9 December 2000)
Merry Halloween, Z39.50: We decided the whole thing had been a practical joke and didn't give it any more thought. (31 October 2000)
The Hose Thief: Good God, small boy, you're a good kid. (27 June 2000)
Rootbeerman don't care: Rootbeerman has never in his whole entire life eaten anything that had wheat germ or tahini in it. (28 April 2000)
Memorial haiku: Haiku in memory of recently-dead historical figures (1 January 2000)
A Halloween observance: Halloween in my home town. (1 January 2000)
Madam Chair: My life as a student government beatnik. (7 December 1999)
Heaven and Hell memorial haiku: My take on the latest announcement from the Vatican. (8 August 1999)
Kansas City Standard Blues: A blues story, featuring outdated communications technology. (26 April 1999)
Her Majesty the Queen in Rite of Unicorn: Fantasy poem, in more ways than one. (7 March 1999)
He lei nalu ho`okahi: A soliton wreath: science fiction about dying languages and network protocols. (1 December 1998)
Voices: Snipped from the internal dialogue. (1 September 1998)
Notes War: A war story about groupware. (10 April 1998)
The Tin Pest: Free verse: the eternal degradation of shiny things. (4 December 1997)
Chains: It can be more ordinary than you think. (27 August 1997)
Mistakenly thought to be djinn: A short story explaining the true origins of the Necronomicon. (3 July 1997)
Light and Speed: SF short story about superluminal travel and a suicide cult. (2 February 1997)
Freezing spirits of Air: An SF/fantasy short story about magic and cryonics. (4 April 1996)
Hexagram 20: The blue Mercedes died, turning into a shoe. (27 March 1995)
Bubblegum: I love that music (15 March 1995)
Should Old Acquaintance be Forgot?: I hate politics. (9 March 1995)
The Frog's Dream: A whimsical sonnet (7 February 1995)
The Floating Cats: The floating cats remember. (24 January 1995)