http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog There is no knowing the Evil Eyebrow Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:27:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I filled out my brackets for March Madness at lunch. I do two of them every year. One based on my best intuition of the coming contests and one based on coinflip. Coinflip usually beats intuition. Now it's important to realize that by "best intuition" I mean, "my best guess" or ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/16/brackets/ So we've had this thing in a bag. It's been in a bag since it was stuffed in there on the morning of July 20, 2003. This thing is Jenn's wedding dress. It has been in the bag every since, transported from Maine back to Oklahoma by the good ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/15/wedding-dress-cleaning-racket/ When we got married, my wife and I decided that she would keep her last name. There were a lot of reasons for this but one of the most important is that the concept of a wife taking her husband's name can be taken a bit far, in our ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/14/this-is-progress/ The 2010 Hugo nominations closed last night. The categorical selections for final voting will be announced on April 4. I'm excited! At least, a little bit. Last year, I had the privilege of randomly having read three of the five nominated novels. I made up the other two in quick ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/14/hugo-awards-2010/ TRON! That is all. http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/09/tron-legacy/ We went to see They Might Be Giants last night, opened by Jonathan Coulton. This was both a fun night and an exceptionally long one. Fun because I got to hang with friends having pizza and beer prior to the concert and enjoying the music during. Long because I was/am sick ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/06/they-might-be-giants-jonathan-coulton-sick/ http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/03/it-starts-rube-golberg-and-ends-super-awesome/ My Mother-in-Law gave us a plate for Christmas. This plate belongs with our china pattern, Vintage Jewel. When we received it, I commented to Jenn that we should take the plate and upgrade it by getting the rest of the setting, plus one more full setting as that would ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/02/consumer-dissatisfactionfrustration/ (Well, one of the coolest things...) This website, brought to my attention by the Bad Astronomer, is just way too much of a time sink. I can sit and play for hours. It is a solar system simulator which lets you play with the initial conditions with up to four different ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/01/coolest-thing-in-months/ Charles Stross has a nice description and discussion of the Book Publishing Contract of Doom! over at his blog today. It struck a chord with me at this paragraph: The fourth chunk [of the contract] is about publication dates ....The publisher is required to publish the book within 24 months of the ... http://www.jbwr.net/web/bp/billblog/index.php/archives/2010/03/01/on-publishing-contracts-and-why-you-should-not-write-contemporaneous-fiction/