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2012 through the first lines of my blog
A quick meme for today, which I picked up from Norman Geras: the first lines of the first blog posts for each month of 2012…which in my case tend to be science columns! When the first post happened to be one of my Saturday Specials, where I posted some bit of the many different types …
John Scalzi posts my Big Idea essay about Terra Insegura
John Scalzi is one of the most popular SF bloggers on the Web, as well, of course, one of the most popular SF writers around. He’s also a tireless promoter of science fiction: not just his own, but everyone else’s. For several years he’s been running The Big Idea, a series of essays in which …
My recent Futurismic posts
I’ve managed to post more regularly to Futurismic in the last little while, so I thought I’d provide some links to what I’ve recently put up over there, should you be looking for more cool-tech-and-science blogging: Life-size telepresence robots make their appearance Universal Robots take over the world…on stage MIT researchers create cheap “sixth-sense” ubiquitous …
Blogging!
Today’s Web column for CBC’s Afternoon Edition… *** Over the past few years the growing use of computers and the Internet has contributed a lot of weird new words to our language. People talk about ROM and RAM and “megs of memory,” Googling and websurfing and more. But one of the weirdest words of all …
My most recent Futurismic posts
I haven’t been as bloggingly active as usual this week due to the press of other commitments, but I have managed to keep up regular posts at Futurismic. Looking for some recent science news? Here’s what I’ve blogged about over there in the past few days: Scientists envision growing human eyeballs. Top 87 Bad Predictions …
Gadget blogs
Today’s CBC web column… I love gadgets. I wrote my last novel on a gadget, my Pocket PC cell phone, using a fold-out wireless keyboard. The only thing that keeps me from drowning in gadgets is that I can’t afford them all. But I can do the next best thing, and read about them on …
Guess who’s one of the new bloggers for Futurismic
Why, that would be me, thanks. What is Futurismic? I’ll let them answer that: Futurismic is a website for people interested in the future and the effects of science and technology on the present. Futurismic comes in three parts: the blog section consists of short, well-written, opinionated introductions to content that exists elsewhere on the …
And you call yourself a blogger!
Apologies for the lack of posts yesterday; I’ve been a little (OK, a lot) busy as the instructor for the Sage Hill Teen Writing Experience this week. It’s been fun, and the kids are all very talented, but it’s almost like having a (gasp!) real job. Fortunately, it’s only for a week. Back to normal …
Two big new posts at The Willetts on Wine
I finally posted two big posts at the wine blog my wife and I maintain, The Willetts on Wine. Both relate to the German Wine Society’s dinner held a couple of weeks ago at which the guest of honour was Rainer Karl Lingenfelder of Lingenfelder Estate. His family has been growing grapes and making wine …
Blogging from Banff
Well,no, now that you mention it, I haven’t blogged today. That’s because I spent a large portion of the day in transit from Regina to Banff, where I’m attending the Writing With Style workshop in writing science fiction and fantasy being led by Robert J. Sawyer at the Banff Centre. This is the second time …
Retro Sunday: Ads from a 1930 children’s annual
A project I’ve had in the back of my mind for years is a book called Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House, built around the many interesting mid-century knick-knacks, oddments, thingamobs and whatchamallits in this house where my wife’s family has lived since 1939 and which is now my home. I did do a …