It looked like all the Holy Warriors on the far side of the shuttle were also dead or wounded…but the snipers had gotten only three of the four machine-gunners inside. Current word count: 81,616New words this session: 2,767Percentage of novel completed: 81.6 Four-fifths done…
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The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
I can’t believe I hadn’t come across this until now (but then, the World Wide Web is a rather large place [if it’s a place at all (and how many paranthetical [like this] statements can one put in a single sentence, anyway?)]): Michael C. LaBarbera, a University of Chicago biologist, has taken a scientific look …
Photo of the Day: Evening School
Regina’s Davin School at twilight. More photos here.
The first sentence I wrote today…
Cheveldeoff sat in the main briefing room of the Retribution with Grand Deacon Braun, watching the video feeds streaming back from the descending shuttle. Current word count: 78,849New words this session: 1,074Percentage of novel completed: 78.8 Everything today was written in the 45 minutes or so I had to myself in the snack room of …
This sounds very promising:
From Scientific American: Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new, carbon-neutral way to convert vegetable-based fuels to syngas, a breakthrough that could allow producers to power hydrogen fuel cells or create a replacement for America’s dwindling supplies of natural gas, all without relying on fossil fuels. Read the rest. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)
Photo of the Day: The Totem
From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series, this tiny totem pole is labeled, “Made in Canada by Ellen Neel and the Totem Carvers – Kwakiutl Indians.” It may be one of the 5,000 tiny totem poles Ellen Neel and the Totem Carvers once made for the Hudson Bay Company. Then again, it …
The first sentence I wrote today…
“BPS Sanctification to approaching vessel,” Chris Keating said into the microphone of the headset he’d worn since the ship’s computer had announced that another Holy Warrior vessel had entered the system.Current word count: 77,775New words this session: 2,511Percentage of novel completed: 77.7 I wrote more words than it looks like today; once again I backed …
I perceive it’s time for a new list of search terms…
…bringing people to my main website, a.k.a. Edward Willett’s Intergalactic Library. Good old “spider goats” are still on there, but the last batch of results shows that “time perception” has a commanding lead, with “physics of football” second. New to the list is one I don’t think I’ve seen before: “corpse-flower grower”. Here are the …
Half-Life’s automated machine-gun sentries…
…become a reality, courtesy of Samsung and Korea University. Just a little scary, don’t you think? (Via Gizmodo.)
Photo of the Day: Autumn Shadows
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The first sentence I wrote today…
After disconnecting, Chris sat in shuddering fury for a few seconds, then exploded out of the communications room and went zooming down the ship’s central shaft, zero-G suiting his mood more than the lunar-G environs of the rotating outer hull.Current word count: 75,264New words this session: 3,278Percentage of novel completed: 75.2 And so we pass …
Photo of the Day: The Bear
From my new photo series, “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” The bottom of this handsome bear says “Hand Carved by Kadian Crafts, Canada.” More photos here.
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