Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Links to some of the 2023 World Fantasy Award Finalists

In the short fiction category, I don't think I've read any of these yet:

“The Morning House” by Kate Heartfield 

“Telling the Bees” by Kat Howard 

“Douen” by Suzan Palumbo 

New Humble Bundle is "Baldur's Gate and Beyond"

Starting at $6 for Planescape Torment and Icewind Dale enhanced editions.

Super 7's SDCC items are up for preorder

"Thirsty for Blood" Godzilla, G.I. Joe trading cards, Super Cyborg Megatron, and more.

EE has one Cobra BAT and one G.I. Joe Duke Ultimates down to $41 each

Super 7 Ultimates on sale. And you should get $10 off if you spend $50 on in-stock items with the code 2023SDCC10, plus another 10% off for using my link.

Memopad for turning meetings into a simple RPG

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Texas A&M suspended a professor for criticizing the lieutenant governor after the professor was reported by a politically-connected student

Texas Tribune:

The Texas A&M system confirmed the series of phone calls and text messages that led to [the professor]’s investigation was kicked off by [the] Texas Land Commissioner ..., a graduate of UTMB’s medical school. The Tribune confirmed her daughter, a first-year medical student at the time, attended [the professor's] lecture. [The Texas Land Commissioner] served six years in the Texas Senate with [the Lieutenant Governor], who endorsed her run for land commissioner last year, and she recently attended [the Texas A&M Chancellor]’s wedding in May.

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[The professor] has spent more than two decades as a pharmacist in Japan, Missouri and elsewhere, and has taught college students in Texas for more than a decade. She now teaches at Texas A&M while working as an ambulatory care pharmacy director at a free health clinic in Bryan.

She has helped bring millions of federal research dollars to the university, and last year Texas A&M’s pharmacy school named her the early career researcher of the year.

Indiana Jones fan art in the style of Hergé