It’s a picture of Saturn’s moon Mimas from Cassini-Huygens…we hope.
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Writing Diary: July 26, 2004
Today was a science column day; the column (on rogue waves) is already online below. Best thing about it on the radio today was that the crack CBC Afternoon Edition team had the wit to play There’s Got to Be a Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure following the segment! Spent the afternoon tech-editing three …
Rogue waves
Lots of people who are afraid to fly think nothing of taking long ocean cruises. They might think again in the wake of the European Space Agency’s report this week that rogue waves are far more common than anyone ever expected. Rogue waves are monster, ship-smashing walls of water that rise to seemingly impossible heights, …
Interview with Dr. Jack Williamson
Check out this interview with legendary science fiction writer Dr. Jack Williamson, from this morning’s Morning Edition program on CBC Radio One in Saskatchewan.
So, you’d rather take the boat than the plane?
It turns out monster rogue waves are far more common than thought–and probably account for far more ship disappearances than thought.
That ain’t hay
In an Op-Ed on abortion in The New York Times : Barbara Ehrenreich writes: I was a dollar-a-word freelancer and my husband a warehouse worker, so it was all we could do to support the existing children at a grubby lower-middle-class level. Ignoring the insult to those who are or were lower-middle-class–grubby? Not in the …
I’m pleased to hear this
Looks like they’re going to finish the space station after tall. Good news…as long as it doesn’t slow down the march to the Moon and Mars. Look, folks, we need it all, all right? More of everything in space. Including, I dearly hope, me someday.
Reading Diary: July 23, 2004
Well, we did very little reading of The Amber Spyglass this week, and I still haven’t finished Red Thunder, so not a great week for reading. (Oh, sure, I read tonnes of stuff on the Internet every day, but that’s not real reading…is it?) I did finish the new Discover. And browsed other mags that …
Writing Diary: July 24, 2004
*Sigh.* I didn’t finish proofing Lost in Translation, I did nothing on Orson Scott Card…but, hey, I printed out another copy of Shards of Excalibur to mail to a critiquer tomorrow and bought a 5,000-sheet box of paper. That counts for something, doesn’t it? I won’t be doing any fiction writing at Second Cup for …
Mirror, mirror on the moon
You’d think that after 35 years, none of the science experiments left behind by the Apollo 11 crew would still be working…but you’d be wrong.
New template
Thought I’d try something a bit different…the other one wasn’t displaying correctly, for some reason, and this is all so much more, well, literary, dontcha think?
Writing Diary: July 22, 2004
Late again with this, but it was exciting yesterday: I not only made it to the end of Shards of Excalibur Book 1 (63,400 words, 302 pages), I printed it out so I could give it to someone for critiquing last night; I’ll print it again this afternoon to mail to another critiquer. Ran out …
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