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1 new photos on my Flickr stream

Patrick — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:50:14 +0000

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2 new photos on my Flickr stream

Patrick — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:08:42 +0000

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1 new photos on my Flickr stream

Patrick — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:35:00 +0000

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Joining the 21st century

Patrick — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:46:34 +0000

Well, we did it. We’re now iPhone users. And this post comes to you courtesy of the WordPress app.

A new photo on my Flickr stream

Patrick — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:20:03 +0000

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Solstice

Patrick — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:30:00 +0000

Happy solstice. So from here on out the days will just keep getting longer.

Synchronicity

Patrick — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:36:21 +0000

Currently I’m reading Vacuum Flowers, by the inimitable Michael Swanwick, for about the eighth or ninth time. In it, people’s personalities can be temporarily altered by a type of programming called “wetprogramming”, since you’re programming the wetware of the person, ie, the brain. You don’t need special training to be a dentist, or a bodyguard, or a courier. You just need someone with a wetware programmer and the right set of wafers to imprint the skills you need on your persona.

In the novel, people’s faces are painted to indicate what they’re currently programmed as. Surgeons might wear an orange butterfly, couriers a green triangle, pierrots a harlequin mask.

Today I saw this photo on Flickr:

…and part of me thought, I wonder what that paint might indicate.

8 new photos on my Flickr stream

Patrick — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:05:21 +0000

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“Exit Interview” reviewed

Patrick — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:00:17 +0000

A website called Diabolical Plots has taken it upon themselves to review pretty much anything and everything that Daily Science Fiction publishes. In the last week or so, they got to the August 2011 stories, which include my short story, “Exit Interview“.

In short: they liked it.

When I was asked to review “Exit Interview” by Patrick Johanneson (debut 8/3 and reviewed by Anonymous), I was pleased as I clearly remembered reading it the day it arrived in my inbox–always a good sign. I enjoyed it as much reading it a second time.
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They also pointed out that no less a luminary than Mike Resnick — Mike Resnick! — has sold a story to Daily SF. That’s some esteemed company to be in, methinks. (For those not in the know — Mike Resnick has been nominated for more Hugo Awards than any other science fiction writer. Including Grandmasters like Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein.)

So. How’s your day been?

The creative cycle

Patrick — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:31:47 +0000

Ha ha ha sigh.

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