And this just in -- PKD nominees

I *do hope* they have it right, but I got this and it snd it said for immediate release:

_For Immediate Release_

* 2009 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced*

The judges of the 2009 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce seven nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award:

BITTER ANGELS by C. L. Anderson (Ballantine Books/Spectra)
THE PRISONER by Carlos J. Cortes (Ballantine Books/Spectra)
THE REPOSSESSION MAMBO by Eric Garcia (Harper)

THE DEVIL’S ALPHABET by Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
CYBERABAD DAYS by Ian McDonald (Pyr)
CENTURIES AGO AND VERY FAST by Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press)
PROPHETS by S. Andrew Swann (DAW Books)

First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 2, 2010 at Norwescon 33 at the Doubletree Seattle Airport Hotel, SeaTac, Washington.

Congrats to all the finalists. Having been a PKD judge I have a clue as to how hard it is to make this list.

Hey, 98.6 I'd love to have you back again

Sigh...

hope to follow the Ravens online, would love to be able to watch. This depends on several things, including me being awake.

Meanwhile, Temp still not exactly where I expect it... local and regional accents being what they are I thought I was being given "C-Pack" and that's not it at all. Whatever it is, it is doing stuff, yessir.

I won der -- is their someway I can ban the Beatles from a "channel" on Pandora. I absolutely am not buying beatles music, and most of it doesn't stand up well to say ... The Rolling Stones. Maybe I just got cynical in my old age.

Not a lot to report, so I wander

Not a lot to report. I'm going back to bed in a little bit. Last night's triumph was getting Pandora to play on the netbook -- Haysus the Asus -- meaning I can have my music wherever I want in the house. Like bedside, near the humidifier and the Kleenex. Otherwise, a ramble.

( Ramble follows )