If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.