Tag: Kittens
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Odd Prompts: The Kitten
Rather than attempt to write fiction and disrupt the work in progress, I opted to go with a visual response. What I got is a perfect illustration of why AI will never replace the human artist completely. I can immediately picture multiple ways to depict this: “The kitten knocked on the mousehole door.” I attempted…
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Invasion of The Cyoots
The Crooked House is under siege. Patter, patter, patter… thwonk. That’s the sound of tiny paws getting up a running start, then mis-estimating the clearance on the hollow-core door between the office and bedroom. Kitten heads are, thank heavens, hard. My house is full of popcorn kittens, and one growling demon. Inspector Gidget is deeply…
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Tea and a Game Review
The Ginja Ninja and I have been talking about doing this for months. We’ve drunk a lot of tea, but haven’t had the time for a game until today, when she came to me and said ‘I’m making tea and I cleaned off the table. You pick the game.” Given that we’ve only got 4…
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Vulcan’s Kittens
It’s shameless self-promotion day here on my blog! Wanna read a book? If you have already read it, maybe share this post with a friend who’d enjoy it? Or go leave a review if you haven’t already? And if you have already read it, I’d like to say Thank You! and celebrate the fact that…
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Morning Has Broken
If you’re anything like me, that will now be your earworm for the day. It could be worse. I was talking about opera over at the Otherwhere Gazette today, and how ‘Space Opera’ came to be first a pejorative, and later a term of acclaim. Fat Ladies Singing Space and Opera seem to be an…
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Desperately Seeking Coffee
I have coffee, it’s just that the pot is taking an awfully long time to bubble through for me this morning. In the mean time, I’m bumbling through a list of what I need to get done today. At 6 pm this evening I complete my semester with a Cultural Anthropology exam, and a ten…
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Snippet 2 of Vulcan’s Kittens
To celebrate my (finally!) getting the spine properly formatted for the print edition, here is another snippet of Vulcan’s Kittens. If you would like to read the first snippet, look here before you start on this one. To buy a print copy, click here. Linn woke up in the morning to her grandfather shaking her…