Author Archives: Mel Green

The Daily Tweets 2010-11-10: #AKSen vote count proving it’s not “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” no matter what she calls her crappy reality show.

Today was the first day of counting write-in ballots in the Alaska U.S. Senate race, which is now (Scott McAdams having conceded) between incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowki, the write-in candidate, and Sarah Palin’s favorite Joe Miller. Meantime, we’ve been hearing … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-09: Microsoft Society for the Advancement of Some Stupid Font I Never Heard of Before

Why do virtually all of MS Word’s preloaded styles use stupid fonts & ugly colors that no intelligent person wants in their documents? #fb # [On Facebook, a friend commented, “I blame it on the CSLF. The ‘Comic Sans Liberation … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-08: First snow

This was a “First snow at UAA” photo I took on October 26, 2006. Four years & change ago; but it’s much as the UAA/APU Consortium Library will look every morning on my way to work from here on out, … Continue reading

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Winter arrives

Winter is finally acting like winter in Anchorage. What better proof of that than that almost everybody was late to work this morning? A couple of winter pics to celebrate the arrival of snow in Anchorage.

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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-06: A lovely NaNovember day (7.5K words)

Saturdays are writing days for me. But in November, every day’s a writing day, thanks to NaNoWriMo  — National Novel Writing Month.  We’re now a week into NaNovember, as I call it, & I started it way behind. But by … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-05: Do we really need to set the clocks back on Sunday when we already set the country back on Tuesday?

3049 words for #nanowrimo today, bringing me to 3609 total. Goal to get to 10K by Saturday (& hence where I should be.) #fb # RT: @redrummy RT: @ricecracker79: Do we really need to set the clocks back on Sunday … Continue reading

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Blog changes, & NaNoWriMo

I got fed up with my old template, so I’m changing it.  If you’ve got respiratory issues, you might want to wear a mask, because I’m gonna be kicking up some dust around here. But right now: I’m off to … Continue reading

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President Obama on DADT

President Obama discussed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in remarks yesterday morning after his post-election press conference on November 3, 2010.

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Seeking people with genre fiction review experience

My friend Bart Leib is looking for people who have experience writing reviews for genre fiction.

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An LGBT rundown of the election

A rundown of election results in Alaska & nationally affecting LGBT folks; originally written for Bent Alaska.

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