Jaime Bishop was at UNC until 2005; the local paper had a big piece on him. Sounds like a wonderful guy.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
We spent a lot of time with the Bishops when he was a kid. Fuck.
Jaime Bishop was at UNC until 2005
Yeah -- I'm kinda fuzzy on who his dad is, but a lot of people I work with knew Jaime well. Dammit.
Here's the newspaper article [link] . I wondered if you might know him, amych.
Michael Bishop's novel No Enemy But Time won a Nebula. He lives about 90 miles south of here and came to a lot of Atlanta sf events.
I wondered if you might know him, amych.
I think I might've met him briefly once? But yeah, lots and lots of second-degree connections, between the language people and the technology people.
In other sad news not coming out of Virginia or Iraq:
Mayor Itoh of Nagasaki, an outspoken anti-nuclear activist, was shot an hour ago on the street in front of his office. He is in critical condition and he may not survive. The shooter was a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang, which has ties to the extreme right-wing nationalists in Japan.
Mandalit del Barco, Lakshmi Singh, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, Snigdha Prakash. I love how they say their names, but seeing them written out is weird.
Ditto. Other than the first one, I didn't recognize them until I said them out loud. It's weird how much Bob Edwards' or Michelle (or is it Nichelle?) Norris' voices are burned into my brain.
Plei, Raq, others? Is there a good source for baby accessories in black, instead of cupcakes and rainbows? Coworker keeps getting looked at funny by shop people.
(Today, it was some sort of support thing that goes around your waist to relieve some of the strain of holding the baby? )
An article in the 1900 Ladies Home Journal predicting the way the world might be in the year 2000. Fascinating to see what they got correct, and what they... didn't. What was with the 1900 obsession with pneumatic tubes anyway?