*Sigh.* I didn’t finish proofing Lost in Translation, I did nothing on Orson Scott Card…but, hey, I printed out another copy of Shards of Excalibur to mail to a critiquer tomorrow and bought a 5,000-sheet box of paper. That counts for something, doesn’t it? I won’t be doing any fiction writing at Second Cup for …
You’d think that after 35 years, none of the science experiments left behind by the Apollo 11 crew would still be working…but you’d be wrong.
Thought I’d try something a bit different…the other one wasn’t displaying correctly, for some reason, and this is all so much more, well, literary, dontcha think?
Late again with this, but it was exciting yesterday: I not only made it to the end of Shards of Excalibur Book 1 (63,400 words, 302 pages), I printed it out so I could give it to someone for critiquing last night; I’ll print it again this afternoon to mail to another critiquer. Ran out …
Now, why on Earth would Reuters choose to identify the late Jerry Goldsmith as the “Rambo” composer, when he won an Oscar for The Omen and composed many other great scores? One uncharitable theory would be that Reuters never misses the opportunity to portray Americans as violent warmongers…even in its entertainment news. But surely that …
This is weird: after nearly dying from a viral infection, this macaque at an Israeli zoo has begun walking upright like a human being.
A productive day, once I got some odds and ends done in the morning. I spent a good solid two hours at Second Cup on Shards of Excalibur; still didn’t quite get to the end, which is frustrating, because I absolutely have to finish reading the page proofs for Lost in Translation and I think …
This is too cool for words. We did this: human beings did this. For three years starting 35 years ago, we went to another world, walked around on it, rode around on it, studied it, looked back at our world in wonder. We made the first hesitant steps into the infinite universe that surrounds us. …
Alan Boyle reports in his Cosmic Log that the X Prize Foundation is planning an announcement on July 27 that will likely start a 60-day countdown for seeking the $10 million spaceflight prize. Apparently both SpaceShipOne team leader Burt Rutan and da Vinci Project (that’s the team that plans to launch from here in Saskatchewan!) …
Somewhat belatedly–hey, yesterday was my birthday!–here’s my writing note for July 20: A good day, actually. I got my science column out to my e-subscribers, the blog and the Regina Leader Post, then did a nice big swatch of re-writing on Shards of Excalibur–I’d rather hoped to finish it, but that wasn’t to be; today, …
…a term I loathe. Perhaps I need a government inquiry or a professional counsellor. Whichever.
It’s hard to believe, for those of us of a certain age, but July 20 marked the 35th anniversary of the first manned moon landing (and, as it happens, the 35th anniversary of my 10th birthday, in case you’re wondering just what “a certain age” is). In January, President George W. Bush called for the …
