Internet is the greatest humbling device of all times. Have an "original" idea? Just type it in, and you'll know in a second how many people worldwide thought up exactly the same thing.
For a while, I have been joking how one or the other of my scientific projects would end up published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Whenever the results were... well, not reproducible. Then I thought, why not call a blog that? So I did, for about a month.
Just now, someone who has apparently been misdirected to my blog in his search for Irreproducible Results on the Internet, politely told me to rename my blog because the REAL Journal of Irreproducible Results already exists and is trademarked. Oops, sorry, my mistake. Didn't mean to hijack anybody's search for the magazine of science humor and trick them into winding up in my blog.
So back to the old name it is. That one has not yet given anyone any trouble. I think.
     

My short story Watching the Rubber Band is out tonight in Christopher Fletcher's M-BRANE SF

Okay, so this is the opening blog in this blog and the first blog in my life, so let's see how it goes. First, a bunch of thank yous: the list of people I'm grateful to for making my past year and a half very much up there among the "best ever" category is getting longer and longer.
 The list starts with the Clarion West 2009 workshop organizers, instructors, and classmates.  From there on we move to the local speculative fiction community and the gang of writers called  Horrific miscue. Then -- to Sheila Williams and Neil Clarke, editors of Asimov's and Clarkesworld.
I am thankful to those of you writer-colleagues, friends, and strangers who took time and Tweeted or Livejournalled or otherwise blogged or commented on or reviewed my work -- each one of these mentions is welcome and important to me. And last but not the least, it was and always will be a great pleasure to see feedback from readers -- questions, thoughts, emotions.
Thank you all.