A new leader in search terms bringing people to my main website this week: “animal intelligence” takes the top spot. Physics of football still ranks high, though, and if you throw in “soccer science” and “science of soccer,” it takes first place. On the other hand, there’s also “animal emotions” on the list, so it’s …
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The first sentence I wrote today…
Darby Slick of the Great Society, who saw Big Brother play in late July, said, “It was nearly impossible not to stare constantly at her. She pranced, she strutted, she shrieked, she whispered. The word of mouth was, a star is born.” Janis Joplinning continues…
A word of warning to NaNoWriMo contestants…
…from A.C. Crispin at the Writer Beware blog: “…I know that a significant percentage of the writers who participate in writing novels in November, are going to wind up getting SCAMMED in December, January, February, March, etc., when they submit their novels to scam publishers like American Book Publishers, or PublishAmerica, or scam literary agents …
Transit of Mercury: The Movie
I think it’s probably impossible for us to truly understand the size of a star, even an ordinary, not particularly big star like our sun. Check out this page from NASA with images from the recent transit of Mercury across the face of the sun. In particular, take time to download the movie. Watch the …
Photo of the Recent Past: Snowy Statue
More photos here.
The first sentence I wrote today…
Jack Smith said, “I mean she got so straight, people didn’t like being around her! She was downright dull.” Focusing on Janis Joplin still…
Good news for fighting viral pandemics:
A 60-second test for virus infections. Best bit: “You could actually apply it to a person walking off a plane and know if they’re infected.”
I coulda been a (NaNoWriMo) contender!
All this talk about National Novel Writing Month (for example, this local news story about a participant, one of 72 in Saskatchewan), got me to wondering just how many words I wrote in the final 30 days of working on the first draft of my new novel. I typed THE END on November 14. On …
The long-lost secret of Damascus blades:
Carbon nanotubes?
Photo of the Day: A Bottle of Seagram’s…
…that’s actually a lighter. What I can’t help wondering is…do you really want people to think of your fine Canadian whiskey as the apparent equivalent to lighter fluid? From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series. More photos here.
The first sentence I wrote today…
…had nothing to do with the new novel. I’m now concentrating on finishing up my children’s biography of Janis Joplin, which is what this is from: She arrived home in Port Arthur in May, 1965, and, wrote her sister Laura, “We welcomed her with open arms.” I should have this out of the way by …
The first sentence I wrote today…
The reinforcements from Hansen’s Harbor arrived two hours after the message went out from the grounded Sanctification. Current word count: 100,184New words this session: 4,210Percentage of novel completed: 100 Yes, that’s right. That’s the first sentence I wrote today, up above, but the last two words I wrote today on the new novel were my …
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