After reading the recent online postings about the shocking number of fakers invading geek culture and trampling true geekdom into the dirt with their fakery ways, I've decided to do my part to fight against the cruel boot of society and defend our mighty citadel from those trying to steal the glory. Now, it's Doctor…
Author: Lizbeth Myles
Writer, podcaster. Likes Doctor Who a lot. And spaceships generally. And cake.
Chicks Unravel Time updates
It's very close to the release date of Chicks Unravel Time. So close it's actually tomorrow. And there are a couple of nifty things going on to do with the book, so here's an Exciting Update of Informativeness. Firstly, a competition! Where, by simply commenting on my rather smashing co-editor's blog post over here or…
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Okay, I'm one day late, Ada Lovelace Day was actually yesterday, but never mind. Onwards: Named after the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace Day is about celebrating and raising the profile of women in the sciences, thus I present this list of my ten favourite female scientists (half of them would be on my ten…
Chicks Unravel Time news
I'm delighted to let you know that Chicks Unravel Time is set for release on November 13th and its full table of contents is now out. So you can see all of our essayists and the marvellous titles of their essays at the Mad Norwegian website. Or here, since I'm going to write them in…
Chicon 7
I made it home yesterday from Chicon 7 in very sunny, very humid Chicago. Then I promptly collapsed into bed and slept for an unreasonable amount of time. Thus am feeling not entirely zombie-like, though I do have the remnants of whatever spiffy illness left me stuck in bed for most of Saturday. Some…
The First Man On The Moon
After hearing about the death of Neil Armstrong, I went to the NASA website to have a look at some pictures of the Apollo 11 spaceflight. They're magical stuff, space pictures. And it still seems such a strange and wonderful thing that humanity put some people in a wee metal box, lit an enormous explosion…
Stuff on Mars
So NASA's Curiosity Rover has landed on Mars and it's all Terribly Exciting, and here is an EXCLUSIVE PHOTO of what they have discovered:
The Cup of Tea of Death
Yes, the blogging daily thing has worked out brilliantly I can see. Never mind. For instead of typing nonsense on the Internet I was away in Glasgow, land of rain - cold unpleasant endless rain - visiting my lovely sister. Well, I say lovely, but SECOND THOUGHTS were had on this visit. For, you see,…
The cake is a lie and other true things
I'm trying to develop some better blogging habits so the next seven days will - I say with the best of intentions - be A Blog A Day. Yes. Optimism! Today, my love of Portal 2: "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want…
Sensible Armour Matters
Computer games have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I’ve loved them from when, under parental supervision, I stuck a cassette in my much mourned C64 and then had to find something else to do for an hour while it loaded up (with the ever present fear that…
Lizbeth Myles 