The Mandelbear's Musings

Where I live, in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's less than an hour until April 23rd, which papersky has designated as International Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Day in mockery of this remarkably ill-informed rant by SFWA VP Howard V. Hendrix. In it, he calls authors who give away their work on the web "webscabs", and blames them for "converting the noble calling of Writer into the life of Pixel-stained Technopeasant Wretch."

this is my post on ipstp, but I'm quoting it in full here because I can:

It's an hour early where I live, and much of what I've written is on the web already. Here is one thing that hasn't been, however: it 's the source code to a couple of software packages that my father and I wrote some 20 years ago. These programs convert and display spectra written on a variety of Perkin Elmer lab instruments, and sold for prices ranging from $300 to $500. They are now under the GPL, though I haven't had time to edit the source files yet.

In music, I'm working on a CD called Coffee, Computers, and Song! You can download the latest mixes here; the lyrics and performances are all under a Creative Commons license.

Several of my songs are related to this hitherto unpublished story. It could use a lot of editing to bring it up to date.

Most of my web-accessible nonfiction is here.

Now go on over to ipstp and read the other great stuff people are posting there.