PRO WRITER TIP: If your book wins an award in translation, be sure to publicly and enthusiastically thank your translator. Why? The folks giving the award did not read your words directly, they read the words of the translator. That translation must have been pretty good for the award to have been given.
Which is why now I am thanking Masayuki Uchida, the translator for the Japanese version of The Kaiju Preservation Society, which won a Seiun Award (Japanese SF award) today. Thank you, sir!
The most important thing I brought back from Iceland: A whole bunch of chocolate-covered black licorice. Strangely hard to find in the US! And yet there you can find it in every store!
@tankgrrl@flargh definitely an elf house. They are big into the elves. If you visit the Blue Lagoon, definitely go to the "story time" to hear the tale of how the elves interfered with construction plans!
Chrome on Windows has suddenly started declaring that every picture I try to download is failing a virus scan, including pictures I took, so I'm not loving that at all
There's already case law on these sorts of shenanigans: Midler v. Ford Motor Co., so Altman was either ignorant of this, in which case OpenAI needs new counsel, or he knew and did it anyway, because fuck you Scarlett Johannson. I'm pretty sure it's the latter.
So, hey, I just finished writing a novel. If you want to know what it's called and what it's about (and when it will be out), just follow this handy-dandy link right here:
@scalzi Oh no, now the song is playing in my head, and I can tell the situation will happen over and over again. Sci-fi authors should be prohibited from using this kind of growth hack.
It’s drizzly but otherwise nice today, which makes it a fine time to peruse a stack of new books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. Which of these books are particularly catching your eye today?
Apple said the Logic Pro updates would be available May 13, well now it's May 13 and I don't see the updates in the app stores WHERE ARE MY LOGIC PRO UPDATES APPLE