Intellectually, each of us knows that there are probably other people in the world who share our name, unless it’s a very unusual one. I’ve gotten used to the fact there are various other Edward Willetts (both living and dead) and Ed Willetts. But it was a shock today to discover that there is also …
It’s my niece’s blog. Nothing earth-shaking, but the girl knows how to put words together. She’ll make a fine lawyer some day. Check it out.
Clay: not just for pottery any more.
From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series: an alabaster orange in a really lovely alabaster pedestal fruit bowl, both bearing small labels proclaiming them to have been “hand-carved in Italy.” More photos here.
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.
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