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• Commented on Rejection Letter
  It looks better than Windows 8.1? Or at least it's somewhat more usable, and 7 was starting to creak a bit. (I bought a new desktop with 7 a couple of years ago, and found that the built in backup...
• Commented on How to stay in the zone for NaNoWriMo
  The requirement to "win" is to first-draft 50,000 words on a novel (canonically a new project, though they've relaxed the rules on that recently) in the month, not a complete full-length manuscript. So it's only 1667 words/day if you write...
• Commented on How to stay in the zone for NaNoWriMo
  Interesting thoughts. My mileage -- for what little it's worth, as a hobbyist with very little ambition to have anyone else read my fiction -- varies a bit. I've 'won NaNo' three times -- four if I count one of...
• Commented on The sky's gone dark
  Just a couple of notes on the solar-flare monitoring angle. 1) Not all of the solar and space-weather fleet is in LEO -- SDO is in geosynchronous orbit above New Mexico, SOHO is at L1, and STEREO is somewhere over...
• Commented on Who Got Fantasy in My Science Fiction?
  The Bujold psychics would be in Ethan of Athos; I don't think they crop up anywhere else. There are lots of psychic/magic powers in Lee & Miller's Korval series, which is still ongoing, and also -- with a different slant...
• Commented on DO YOU 'LIKE' THE SUN? The Content Casino vs. the Long Game
  Oh, I see. I agree, that's pointless. The kind I like are more like this: http://solarmonitor.org/full_disk.php?date=20140911&type=saia_00193&indexnum=1...
• Commented on DO YOU 'LIKE' THE SUN? The Content Casino vs. the Long Game
  Maybe it's not what the speaker meant, but I literally 'like' pictures of the Sun on Facebook from time to time, because I'm a solar physicist and follow a lot of NASA and solar physics pages. At least one of...