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The first sentence I wrote today…
In what had once been the administrator’s office, surrounded by vidscreens glowing the pale green that indicated no signal, they found the man who must have been commander of the Holy Warriors, dead in his chair, head thrown back, red eyes staring at the ceiling, the front of his once-white uniform stiff with dried blood …
Starship Troopers closer to reality:
Robotic powered exoskeletons for soldiers will be delivered to the U.S. Army for testing in 2008. What’s it like to wear one? Main tried it out himself recently. “It makes you feel really, really strong. You get the sensation that you have a lot of strength. I sort of felt like The Hulk and I’m …
Photo of the Day: The Elephant
The first in an occasional series I’m calling “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” This is the head of a brass elephant, obviously. It’s one of two, on marble stands, obviously intended as book ends. The question is, why is there a matching candlestick holder? Would you put it in the middle of a …
The first sentence I wrote today…
…was technically: “Have you checked the basement?” Which is not only a very boring sentence, but one that will not appear in the finished book–because shortly after I wrote it, I realized I had taken a seriously wrong turn in my plot about four scenes back. So instead of writing new material today, I was …
The first sentence I wrote today (Monday)…
The Selkies descended into the streets of Hansen’s Harbor at first light.Current word count: 62, 556New words this session: 984Percentage of novel completed: 62.5
Photo of the Day: The Saucer
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The curious case of Dr. Carefoot
Bob McDonald, director of membership and legal services for the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan,, recently tipped me to the strange case of a Dr. Carefoot, disciplined by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Saskatchewan in the 1920s for diagnosing and treating patients using an Abrams Machine. “A …
The Viking landers may have found life on Mars…
…but weren’t sensitive enough to detect it. Turns out the Viking instruments can’t even detect life on Earth!
The Palm and World Islands
A while ago I wrote a column called “Extraordinary Engineering.” Among the mega-engineering projects I mentioned were the Palm and World Islands, off the coast of Dubai. As I wrote: The Palm Islands are two artificial islands, 4.8 kilometres offshore, being built in the shape of giant palm trees, with “trunks” eight kilometers long and …
Using science to disprove ghosts, vampires and zombies…
…as a University of Central Florida physics professor has done–is a silly game. As if people who believe in ghosts and vampires in the first place are going to be put off by scientific arguments to the contrary. It’s like saying magic can’t exist because it’s not science. Well, no, it’s not, but that’s the …
The first sentence I wrote today…
“Don’t go anywhere,” the guard growled, then coughed and kept on coughing, so hard he ended up leaning against the doorjamb for support, holding his rifle loosely in his right hand, coughing into his clenched left fist. Current word count: 61,572New words this session: 844Percentage of novel completed: 61.5
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