Monthly Archives: February 2011

Kage Baker would have said of today: Let’s go driving! The sky is the most exquisite enamel blue, the few clouds are every colour of a Persian cat and just as fluffy. It’s cold and clean and bright and gorgeous; … Continue reading →

Kage Baker did not care for audiobooks. She loved being read to – by a real, live, present right there to show her the pictures on demand, kind of person. But she didn’t like audiobooks. That was a real regret … Continue reading →

Kage Baker postulated, loudly and frequently, that Mars would never be colonized until someone figured out a way to make money off of it. This wasn’t just her innate pessimism, but rather a judgment based on her studies of history: … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, being both a history buff and (at one point) a Catholic schoolgirl, did a lot of research into saints. I am uncertain that it was actual piety that inspired the research; there wasn’t a lot to read on … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved movies. Visual input was her preferred sensory channel, and so gazing into the electronic eyes of a screen was a perpetually satisfying experience for her. She would go on fondly sometimes about her childhood nights in the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker always maintained that her blood got thicker  in the winter – like maple syrup. In logical corollary, she insisted it got thin again in the spring. This is a popular old bit of folk wisdom, of course, which … Continue reading →

Kage Baker often compared her computer to the palantiri from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. She loved the access to texts of all times and nations that the Internet provided, but what really zooed her was the ability to see … Continue reading →

Kage Baker observed the classic calendrical markers for the seasons, because after all – there they are, they must be good for something.  It helps you keep track. And there’s no denying the lengths of the days and nights: solstices … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was queen of the search engines. She loved search engines. When I set up her first computer, one of the helpful built-in To Do exercises was a list of suggested search engines; which one did we want to … Continue reading →