This is getting ridiculous. But you know what? I can’t stress or comfort-eat anymore. I mean, about the best I can do is be like, “Whoooo! I’m going to go all out tonight and have three graham crackers after dinner!” or “Oh, man, I’m *totally* going to live on the edge and eat a 1/2 […]
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How to hack a bank. It’s a lot easier than you think: We figured we would try something different by baiting the same employees that were on high alert. We gathered all the worthless vendor giveaway thumb drives collected over the years and imprinted them with our own special piece of software. I had one
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Nick’s got a post up about.. basically, how to actually make money writing fiction. And yea, it means stepping out of the ghetto. I remember getting a ton of very nice rejections from various SF/F mag editors for my story “Two Girls.” The most frustrating rejection came from an editor who suggested I send it
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Interview with Christopher Priest in this month’s Locus. Christopher Priest is my hero. I recommend this (I’ve read it four times) and this (ah, my inspiration for war and bug tech), to start. It’s fantastic mindfucking fiction. In a totally literary way.
Really, really hate it. Respond to my resumes, oh Google corp, oh Starbucks Corp, oh Various Businesses Downtown looking for coordinators/admins/assistants/secretaries/receptionists – I will even bring you coffee! Yes! I will stoop so low! Anything but this disaster, this lowering of the bar one cell tower at a time…
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This whole “nice guy” thing is really making the rounds on the internets. What’s a poor, well-meaning young male to do? The thing is, Pete continued, I don’t think girls want feminist guys! You know that whole thing where girls aren’t into nice guys but would rather have bad boys? It’s like they say they
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Rebecca Maines Kameron Hurley Susan Marie Groppi- Feminist Fiction is So Five Minutes Ago Originally uploaded by tiellan. I’ll be damned. Sombody *did* get a photo of me at Wiscon.
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“I’m through accepting limits‘Cuz someone says they’re soSome things I cannot changeBut till I try, I’ll never know!Too long I’ve been afraid ofLosing love I guess I’ve lostWell, if that’s loveIt comes at much too high a cost!I’d sooner buyDefying gravityKiss me goodbyeI’m defying gravityAnd you can’t pull me down” – “Defying Gravity,” from Wicked:
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