“Black Hole Factory Will Not Destroy Earth.” Well, that’s a relief.

More photos here. Meanwhile, here in Regina, as midnight approaches on September 18 (still late summer, the calendar would have us believe), the temperature is 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), a.k.a. “freezing”–and falling.

First, though, there was the matter of what the Grand Deacon wanted. Current word count: 25,168New words this session: 1,956Percentage of novel completed: 25.1 A quarter of the way to the requisite 100,000 words!

Martin Waugh takes high-speed photographs of water drops to produce what he calls “Liquid Sculpture.” I just call them cool! (Via Drawn!.)

For 30 years, Christopher Tolkien has been editing The Children of Hurin, a story his father J.R.R. Tolkien began in 1918 but later abandoned. The Children of Hurin will finally be released as a new, stand-alone work next spring.

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California winemakers are probably more amenable than most of the world’s vintners to using the latest technological advances, as we discovered at the International Wine and Food Festival in Banff last fall listening to a presentation from Cakebread Cellars outlining their use of remote sensing and other technology. Here’s another example (the “Modesto winemaker” in …

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After which, of course, there was only one more thing to say: “Take me to your leader,” Chris commanded. Current word count: 23,212New words this session: 1,492Percentage of novel completed: 23.2

…from CKOM News Talk 650 Radio in Saskatoon. Two days ago a producer there called to ask me to do a short telephone interview Thursday morning at 6:10 a.m. (!) about wine drinking in Saskatchewan. I agreed. The producer did mention there was a possibility that the segment would be bumped because of the then-breaking …

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I’ve seen the first copies of A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan; I took copies yesterday to the Saskatchewan Book Awards office to meet the September 15 deadline for entering books in this year’s competition. A Safe and Prosperous Future is published by the Association of Professional …

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Um, excuse me, did he just say “Saskatoon”? Yes, that’s right. Divers in Saskatoon believe they may have found the anchor from the City of Medicine Hat, which crashed into the then brand-new Victoria Street Bridge (also known as Traffic Bridge) in the spring of 1908. It was land-locked Saskatoon’s only maritime accident. Go figure.

…as the top search term bringing people to edwardwillett.com. (I’ve included the top 15 instead of just the top 10 search terms this time because “spider goats” appears out of the top 10 but combines with “spider goat” at number one to give the edge to this genetically engineered marvel): 28 spider goat 0.7% 28 …

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