Not much blogging today; I had to get a presentation ready for tomorrow, then drive to Saskatoon for the annual meeting of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been writing a history of sorts for them, called A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 years of engineering and geoscience …
All you gotta do is build a better lunar lander.
The view through the control room window in the Access Communications TV studio, just moments before the start of Net.talk, the phone-in show about computers that I host each week. More photos here.
That’s how the opening to Nineteen Eighty-Four read before George Orwell edited it. Clive Davis posts an image of a bit of the manuscript. Good writing depends on good rewriting just as much as good movies depend on good film editing.
Brief opening scene of Translator on a deep-space freighter. Not from his point of view, from Captain’s. They detect something, just briefly, flashing past before they or their systems can react. And then the Translator tries to seize the bridge… Yes, today I was brainstorming my other possible next novel, a sequel to Lost in …
First it was tractor beams. Now it’s cloaking devices. (Via Technovelgy.com.)
Probably not this one.
They’re amazing. Warning: I struggled to download them. Probably a lot of traffic, even though there are multiple sites hosting them.
Me as Jack Turvey, former president of Regina-based steel giant IPSCO, which celebrated its 50th anniversary with a big gala tonight at the company’s big banquet hall, now called the Turvey Centre. More photos here.
They find an out-of-the-way planet–previously identified by Earth surveyors and promptly forgotten–that is perfect for their needs. Almost entirely covered by water, it boasts only one continent-sized landmass, and by continent, think “large island,” not “North America.” The moddies and the nonmoddies who accompanied them begin to build their new society. Still brainstorming…
Infrared system helps pilots and drivers see in fog and at night. But does it work in blizzards? Enquiring Saskatchewanian minds want to know.
More photos here.
