Salam Pax is real, at least according to the journalist who hired him as a translator.

When I reinstalled The Sims on my machine, I once again avoided The Sims Online, because of cost and the time sink both.Still, I was both amused and disconcerted by this article, about a sort of Sims mafia taking over the online game.Apparently there was a power vacuum, and Sims stepped in to fill it.

May 18, 2003Sunset CraterFlagstaff, ArizonaSpent a pleasant, lazy, vacation-like morning reading in the campsite, then ventured out after lunch into Sunset Crater National Monument. We’d been here before, 10 years ago, when I first moved out to Tucson. The difference now was–Iceland.Or rather, the fact that we’d both been to Iceland, about as volcanic a

(From my Grand Teton trip journal; first of many, posted as I have time to go through them.)May 17, 2003Sunset CraterFlagstaff, ArizonaEn route to Wyoming.For the record, my second trip to Wyoming. Was there when I was 14, as part of a poorly-planned, poorly-run Girl Scout trip, during which I had few friends and acquired

Even if I am a total geek, I don’t normally post techie news, but–Palm is buying Handspring.Humph. If I’d wanted to own a Palm Pilot, I would have bought one.

I am a total geek. (From Carpe Decorum.)Which seems as good an excuse as any to link to the Stealth Geek Faq as well.

Returned home to a contributor’s copy of Mythic Delirium Eight, which includes my poem, “Advice.”I’m still pleased at having sold a poem, fiction writer that I am.

Back from vacation, after a couple of lovely weeks spent camping and hiking here.