The number-one hit on Google if you do a search for the term “hassenpfeffer,” that is. Had I realized this sooner, I could have used it as one more reason for my idiosyncratic spelling of the word. (For which I was recently taken to task.) If you search for the “correct” spelling, “hasenpfeffer,” all you …
It’s been a week, and “spider goats” has regained the lead as the top search term bringing people to edwardwillett.com. But that’s misleading. There are four search terms in this batch (all terms in the double digits in the last 4,000 visits) that are essentially the same: “physics of football,” “football physics,” “aerodynamics of a …
It’s a toaster. Specifically, a Hotpoint. What were you expecting? From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series. More photos here.
Sad news: Jack Williamson, who has been writing science fiction for almost as long as science fiction has existed as a genre (his first story was published in 1928, his last novel was published in 2005), died today. He was 98. His last novel was The Stonehenge Gate, published last year. I read it and …
From Live Science: “…a team headed by Dr. Moshe Shoham of Haifa’s Technion has created a novel propulsion system for a miniature robot to travel through the spinal canal, powering through cerebrospinal fluid.”
It took Richard only two minutes to discover that his carefully laid plans to disable the Orbital Bombardment System from the bridge would not work.Current word count: 91,634New words this session: 1,807Percentage of novel completed: 91.6 Over 90 percent done! Woo-hoo! The end (er, THE END) is near…
That’s what the former head of Britain’s Ministry of Defence’s UFO project says.
More photos here.
Emily didn’t like the way Richard looked. Current word count: 89,827New words this session: 1,814Percentage of novel completed: 89.8 No, this hasn’t turned into some kind of chicklit novel. See, Richard is injured at this point, and Emily is worried about him. She actually thinks he’s very handsome…well, for a non-genetically modified human. I hope …
How long before something like this becomes de rigeur for symphony orchestras? Wish we’d had it back when I was a French horn player in concert band.
As she waited with Richard for the airlock to cycle and let them through into the Sanctification, Emily slipped her laser pistol from its holster. Current word count: 88,013New words this session: 3,280Percentage of novel completed: 88.0 Another very SFfish sentence to start with today, what with a cycling airlock and a laser pistol, to …
More photos here. P.S. An interesting optical illusion I just discovered. If you stare at this picture, the colored ball will appear to move around slightly against the black background. (Or maybe that’s just me…)
