Odd Linkages

Through the intrusive magic of social networking, I've just learned that I and editor extraordinaire Juliet Ullman share the same birthday. (It's tomorrow.) I do expect that I got to that birthday several years before Juliet, but I am a gentleman, so I will not ask.

For another odd connection, I see she went to Yale, and I went to Vassar -- Vassar was courted by Yale back in the late '60s, and nearly moved itself to New Haven to become the female half of the university, but decided to go co-ed itself...in the year I was born.

Science fiction publishing is run by a sinister cabal! Now where did I put my membership packet...