Note to self: the drain goes on the bottom.

Assembly of the large Matala Biosteps filter—unaided by anything but the pretty-bad picture on the box—the instructions had a way of leapfrogging over the critical bit, like, which is the FRONT of this thing?—went fairly well. And it did run nicely,...

Ann Crispin has died…

Gave a lot to young writers. My dealings with her were few, but always positive. The field is losing too many lately.