Week of 2007-05-12 17:00 to 2007-05-19 16:59

Thanks to Jeffrey Carver over at Pushing a Snake Up a Hill for pointing to this story, about one of my very favorite writers receiving an award: “Ray Bradbury to receive Pulitzer citation”

The winners of the 91st annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 16, 2007.

The Pulitzer Board announced a special citation to Ray Bradbury for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy. This special recognition is not a Pulitzer Prize, but is a recognition of life achievement. A citation was also given posthumously to tenor saxophonist John Coltrane.

The awards luncheon is next week. Congratulations, Mr. Bradbury!

A selection of posts from my other websites during the previous week.

The Trolley Dodger — “Santa Glaus coming to town?”

Things aren’t going so spiffily for the Blue Jays this season. They are in last place in the admittedly powerful and over-televised AL East, with a woeful 13-21 record and already 10.5 games back of the Red Sox. There is talk of firing their manager and otherwise cleaning house….

End Pavement — “Encyclopedia of Life”

When I was a kid, somebody got me an awesome subscription. You began with a set of cards (approx. 4-inch square) with dividers, and a cool red plastic tray to store them in upright — each card represented a different animal, with a great picture on the front and info on the back. Every month, if I remember correctly, you got another small set of cards to add to your collection. This was, for the type of kid I was (and am), obsession-producing….

Mac DevCenter — “OmniOutliner Inspectors tip”

This is one of those “Discovered By Accident” tips that I happened upon today in OmniOutliner 3.0 whilst futzing with the Inspectors….

As always, you can view the Also page for aggregated posts from all my sites in one spot.

Next time you’re using vim, type this in command mode:

:help!

and hit return.

Words to live by. :)