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Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Today and the rest of this week are mostly all about getting ready for Boskone . . . getting all the necessary laundry done, formatting and printing out all the stuff for our reading (there are people out there who can read aloud off of their tablet or…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Because it has been entirely too cold up here of late, and cold weather makes me peevish. Peeve the first:  Mixing up tic and tick. A tick is a bloodsucking parasitical insect.  (Okay.  Technically, an arachnid.)  Or the sound made by a clock.  Or a check mark against…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
A trio of links, from the useful to the odd. Table Scraps — a food history blog, with more blog links in the sidebar.  (Including one to Pass the Garum!, a blog about Roman cookery.) Three-Panel Book Reviews, a webcomic that says entirely truthful and funny things about…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Among the other things I did over the past weekend, in addition to having a lovely time at the Arisia sf/fantasy convention,* was to purchase a tablet to replace my color Nook. Why? (Other than sheer neophilia, that is.)  To make a long story short – Intuit finally…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
In the wake of the Paris attacks, there’s been much earnest discussion going on, in those quarters of the internet where earnest discussion always hangs out, over whether Charlie Hebdo‘s political satires were, in fact, racist, anti-Muslim, and so forth, or whether they were part of a long-standing…