RSS collection

I don't know what the letters stand for, but I know what it is: it's a bit of HTML that fetches a daily thing like a blog. I've been collecting RSS feeds (suggestions welcome) so I can get all this stuff in my livejournal flist. One of my favorites is rijksfeed which is an almost-daily presentation of a painting from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, along with a breif commentary. Today it's the painting of the tailor and his apprentices and what's so cool about that is I saw that very painting! in person! this summer!

On another front, in the last three days I wrote 5K on the Altagracia book. This is one that started as a self-indulgent school romance set on my terraformed art-project world, all about culture clash and angst, which to me are like the most self-indulgent things evar to write about. Anyway it has developed almost into a whole novel, with a bunch of exposition (including a breakout infodump second chapter "Walkabout on Abundance" which starts
( even though I hope this is not boring, I'm not taking any chances )

On another front, I now officially love squash.

genre specific reactions

. . . I got spam today with the header "Independence is not a fantasy" and I thought for a brief giddy moment it was about a story.

Possibly because I was thinking about distributed self-awareness among linked robots again, because of my friend Anton Dovydaitis's babbling about hijinks in his Traveler game.


On another front, the administration's policy of militarizing space is ridiculous, but Frank informs me that part of the new policy is requesting the EU to withold weather satellite information from the administration's enemies.

What do they do, sit up all night playing one-upsies with the evil ideas? "I see your institutionalized torture and raise you deliberately blocking information about impending natural disasters potentially impacting millions of people. With laser cannons in space."