Smith didn’t write many stories, but they linger in my mind far more than most. The first one I remember reading was “No, No, Not Rogov!” — I forgot where I read it, or who the author was. “Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons” was the same — the story burned itself into my memory, but I couldn’t remember where I read it or who it was by.
A couple of years ago the mystery resolved: there’s a book that reprints his complete short works. Some of the titles are so poetic: “The Dead Lady of Clown Town”, “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard”, “Scanners Live in Vain”, “The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-At-All”.
http://www.amazon.com/Rediscovery-Man-Complete-Science-Cordwainer/dp/0915368560/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362700388&sr=1-1&keywords=cordwainer+smith
Gunnerkrigg Court — one of the most beautifully drawn web comics: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1159
Obama’s speech was competent, Rubio’s response was unexpectedly weak, both in presentation and content…
Pulled my nexus 7 out of my gym bag and opened the cover to find the screen festooned with a thick spiderweb of cracks. The screen lights up with no flaws in the image, but the touch response is gone. I can’t even acknowledge the “OK” to power it off.
The gym bag was just clothes and notebooks, but it was in a place where other people could dump stuff on it. Someone must have hit it hard, or sat on it, or something.
A quick search indicates that there isn’t really a cost-effective way to repair it; has anyone used an old 8G model as a source of spare parts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DSTIMZ9xnY
Stuck in the rain for too long…
“Breastfeeding for all, circumcision for none”.
Romney seemed desperately aggressive; Obama seemed tired and distracted. Ah well.
