Deanna Hoak

There are some folks on my list who would really like this job, I think. :-)

Icanhascheezburger is hiring a part-time moderator in the Seattle area.
Let me know if you decide to apply. Sounds like fun. :)

I wish the news sites had more stories like this: Dr. Lorna Stuart sold her house and started a practice to provide medical care for the uninsured.
It gives you hope for the human race.

I’ve commented on bionic eye technology before, but it looks like they’re improving it. At this point they’re having success implanting an artificial retina and linking it to an external transmitter and video camera that can transmit light and motion to the optic nerve; they’re trying to put together one with enough sensors to enable [...]

So my son was telling me about a bad dream he had last night. It was all very complicated, with an evil computer virus that was taking over the world, and some monsters that were trying to stop it. When he was done describing it, I asked him what he had done in the dream, [...]

Okay. So, I know this post is not on unusual punctuation. I’ll get to that, I swear! I’m swamped! But I happened across this cover song today and realized I had never linked it. You guys know I’m fond of Bowling for Soup? Yeah. This is their cover for…Fergie’s “London Bridge.” Fun times, fun times. [...]

I just got word tonight that I am one of the twelve people accepted into the LaunchPad Workshop.
I am massively, unbelievably excited about this, as it will make me an even better SF copyeditor and will help me with my own fiction as well. I’ve taught myself a lot about the science behind SF, but [...]

Polite and charming fantasy author Peter V. Brett, whom I hung out with quite a bit at World Fantasy and who has a three-book deal with Del Rey right now (any authors putting off writing for any reason have to read his post about writing his first novel on his cell phone, with his thumbs), [...]