Workers install a Blairmore Ring in a Saskatchewan potash mine. (Hey, it’s a caption for the APEGS history book. Whaddya want?)
Two big new posts at The Willetts on Wine
I finally posted two big posts at the wine blog my wife and I maintain, The Willetts on Wine. Both relate to the German Wine Society’s dinner held a couple of weeks ago at which the guest of honour was Rainer Karl Lingenfelder of Lingenfelder Estate. His family has been growing grapes and making wine …
The first sentence I wrote today (well, actually, yesterday, because today was Sunday and I didn’t actually write anything today)…
Karl seated himself in the ornately carved–and therefore, not surprisingly, amazingly uncomfortable–black wooden chair at the head of the table and nodded to the Prime Advisor.
Photo of the Weekend: March on the Golf Course
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Weird Tales lives!
The astounding story of the magazine that refused to die! (Via Locus Online.)
Photo of the Day: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!*
More photos here. *It’s a sham rock. Get it? Get it? I slay me.
Come to The Score
I’ve been hired by Genome Prairie (“an organization interested in exploring the ethical, economic, environmental, social and legal implications of genomics research”) to host a public forum following a special screening of the movie The Score at the Kramer IMAX Theatre here in Regina on Monday, March 27, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The Score, …
The first sentence I wrote today
Smiling and shaking the hands of Second Formers was one thing; dealing with the Council, which took up Karl’s afternoon, was worse–mainly because he wasn’t allowed to deal with them, or even talk to them.
Maple syrup goes high-tech…
…with the opening of the world’s only maple syrup research facility in (where else?) Vermont.
Photo of the Day: Snow Fence
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Return of "The First Sentence I Wrote Today"
A while back I set out to make “The First Sentence I Wrote Today” a daily feature, but it fell by the wayside. Now it’s back (I hope!). The first sentence I wrote today (from my YA fantasy-in-progress, tentatively titled Magebane): “Do you mind?” Prince Karl said under his breath to the massive armed and …
Muscles powered by alcohol!
No, this isn’t an argument for heavy drinking by athletes. According to New Scientist, though: Methanol-powered artificial muscles have been created by researchers aiming to create battery-free robotic limbs and prosthetics. Time to update this column, perhaps.
My latest live walk and vlog
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