"Clutched in the fingers of one skeleton was a plain gold band. 'We are surprised at the sophisticated metallurgy', said one scientist. 'This discovery is very precious to us...yesss...precioussss....'"==================…
Yay! More blurs! Science continues to advance!Let's face it - these days, all space-science articles consist of pictures of either a)blurs or b)rocks. On a good day, blurry rocks. This is also true of particle-physics ar…
From the "Mad, mad, they dared to call me mad? Fools! I shall destroy them all!" department...
Sometimes I reget giving up science. I did so because I found that real-world science had a plethora of boring things to mem…
OK, I've got tuberculosis, typhoid, and herpes...but I'm still looking for syphillis. Maybe I can find it on eBay.
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/
Now then, Beth....aren't you glad I only collect Transformers?
I am always amazed by the shades of meaning in English. No other language on Earth has so large a vocabulary, with so many words which are almost, but not quite, synonyms. I think one of the differences between writing, …
Cats are weird.
For most of his life, Boris has slept with me. Usually, when he sees me get up to leave the computer at night, he rushes off to the bedroom. For the past week or so, though, he's been sleeping in the com…
So.Thanks to the wonders of TiVo, Beth and I watched Vampirella last night. It was every bit as laughable as I expected - more so, in fact. I was expecting cheese, but not an entire triple-cheese pizza with more cheese i…
Dos games under windows: That would be Dosbox. You can DL it at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net . It takes a little bit of futzing to get it working properly, but it's pretty smooth once it gets going.
It's 9:00, and I've written 2500 out of 4000 words. Let's hear it for insomnia!
So, here's the Beef&Bacon Chile Recipe which won neither first, second, nor third place at the chile cook-off last Saturday! (This is m…
Bad Lizard. Sporadic blogging.
Yesterday, we went to meet some of the local geeks. We were in the same age range as the parents who were hosting the party. They were, however, cool. Anyone who uses a chainsaw on a pumpk…
Homemade Transformers.
The days drift by, like dead sealife after an oil spill, or something. I have been, basically, working. I've got a very good pattern for this current book going, and I'm making excellent progress. Being home all day unde…
Things you don't like to discover, Part 412: That you had a load of laundry in the washer last week that never made it to the dryer. I thought I was missing some shirts, but I figured they were simply buried deep in the …
So I've got this "Now what do I do?" vibe going. I've been working non-stop for so long that having an afternoon to work on anything I want is weird. I'm almost afraid to start any project for fear I'll have to abandon i…
Hamlet: The Text Adventure.Here.
Getting well ahead of myself in writing. This is good. The more of a lead I can get now, the more I can NOT stress when deadline approaches. Go, me.
Started hauling stuff up to the now-finished, but still toasty, attic.
Three days of writing; 25% of the work done, at least of the major part. This is good.
Watching TV programs to analyze and document them is different from just watching them. It's good exercise for me as a writer, seeing how each line builds up the themes of an episode or of a series, and learning to disce…
Yesterday (well, today, really) I was up until 3 AM finishing up a project.Today I start a new one. Hopefully, this time, there will be 3 days lost for Gencon and 5 days lost for editing, combined with a late start. If I…
OK, this is freaky.Here.Those who don't know why it's freaky, do not need to ask.
Ugh.Spent most of yesterday evening heaving my guts up, for reasons unknown. Want to do nothing today but sleep, but there's a deadline a-coming and the book has to be done TONIGHT. Currently feeling general, body-wide a…
I admire competence, especially since it's so rare.
Yesterday, in a reversal of traditional marital roles as regards money, my wife talked me in to buying a new washer (which we needed) and a FRIGGIN' HUGE HDTV!!!! whic…
Advantages of working at home, part 95: Watching cats dream.Boris has pretty much colonized the top of my computer case - if I were to get one of those nifty new iMacs, I'd have a seriously annoyed kitty. Like most cats,…
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