…Sunday. See, when you’re working on a professional theatrical production (I’m in Saskatoon working on Beauty and the Beast at Persephone Theatre, if you’re joining this blog already in in progress), Monday is your day off. So after I worked on Terra Insegura at Starbucks on Sunday morning, I rehearsed until 3 p.m., when I …
Acoustics have been on my mind recently, and not just because of (as some might suggest) the echoing empty space between my ears. First came the CFL Western semi-final game at Mosaic Stadium, where noise, reflected and focused by the stands, played at least some role in the Riders’ victory—and utterly failed to carry from …
We move on to Chapter 2: Emily woke in the dark to confusion and a pounding headache.Words today: 1,330Total thus far: 4,930Percentage completed: 4.1
I’m a bit late with this, but just for record, “Ick!”: A giant fossilized claw discovered in Germany belonged to an ancient sea scorpion that was much bigger than the average man, an international team of geologists and archaeologists reported Tuesday.
…is not the sentence I’m going to post here, because I didn’t keep it. In fact, the sentence I wrote yesterday is already gone. See, I’d started this scene where my protagonist, Richard, looks around the briefing table and starts describing all his senior officers and…yawn…remembering all the…ho-hum…plot points from the previous…zzzzzz. Yeah, it even …
Richard Hansen settled himself into the thick blue upholstery of the chair at the head of the long, oval, gold-colored metal table, and looked around at his senior staff.Words today: 1,435Total thus far: 2,504Percentage completed: 2.09
The stage version of Beauty and the Beast, as presented on Broadway, had a cast of roughly two million (that’s just a guess). At Persephone Theatre here in Saskatoon, we have a cast of 14. This means all of us poor players must play in our time many parts. I, for instance, play the Narrator, …
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and a journey of 120,000 words began today with the first word of my next novel, Terra Insegura: Bump. That has a period, but it’s not really a sentence. Or maybe it’s a condensed sentence: just like there’s an implied "You" at the beginning …
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. *** A couple of weeks ago I wrote about research aimed at making robot-human interactions more comfortable for humans. With more and more robots finding more and more uses in society, that kind of research is important. But there’s something else we’re going to …
It’s an entire blog devoted to awful (unbelievably awful) Swedish album covers. Because somebody‘s got to make sure these things aren’t allowed to slink quietly into the dank mists of history… (Via ColbyCosh.com.)
…can be found here. Whether this is a completely accurate representation of Leonardo’s painting as it originally appeared is impossible to know, of course, but one thing is certain: it didn’t always have the dim, yellowish appearance we associate with it today.
Sorry for the brief hiatus right after promising to post more. I headed up to Saskatoon on Friday and spent the day in rehearsal for Beauty and the Beast at Persephone Theatre (great cast, all-Saskatchewan–or at least all from Saskatchewan originally; it looks to be a lot of fun), and discovered I didn’t really have …
