Long day past, long week ahead

It's been a long but ultimately satisfying day, as I explain at length in a post currently locked to friends-only that I will unlock (along with a bunch of others) eventually once the reason for the locking has expired. Suffice it to say that I'm slightly sunburned and reasonably tired, and about to head to bed.

Tomorrow, I get to starve myself all day, then head down to BioKinetic for an overnight stay. Not taking my computer this time, just a backpack with some books, work clothes, and my iPod.

After that, a week of "fun" begins, as I have to get up before 6 in the morning in order to make it to BioKinetic by 6:30 Tuesday through Friday. And then I get to spend all of next weekend in the clinic again. So I am about to crash out for the last good night of sleep I expect to have for a while.

Oh well, at least I'll get some reading in tomorrow night.

Ficlets musings

On my podcast The Biblio File,I did an interview with Kevin Lawver of ficlets.com tonight. It was a great interview, with some really interesting stuff about where it all came from (and a bit of conversation on the FanLib debacle too).

Ficlets.com is a pretty neat idea. It's like the Internet fiction stuff writing circles that I used to be part of, but on a micro scale. You get to write only 1024 characters at a time, and then someone else (or you) can write another 1024 characters as a sequel or prequel. The story can branch endlessly. And it's all released under a Creative Commons attribution/sharealike license. You can log in with either an AIM account, or an OpenID (from LJ, or from a site like getopenid.com).

I really wish more people would write sequels or prequels to my ficlets. I've thrown what I consider to be a lot of great ideas out there, things I'd love to see where other people go with, but not many people are biting. For instance, there's a wonderful little tale about a DVD player that literally plays anything. There's a story about a girl who wakes up after a wild party to find some additions to her physiology. There's a story about a woman with very unusual hair. There are places where I continued others' stories but they didn't go anywhere after that. There's…lots of stuff, really. And I'd love to see what some of the people on my friends lists can do with them.

There are also some great Flickr-inspired posts, such as this one about a cat, or what happens when you push a button you really should leave alone.