It turns out monster rogue waves are far more common than thought–and probably account for far more ship disappearances than thought.
That ain’t hay
In an Op-Ed on abortion in The New York Times : Barbara Ehrenreich writes: I was a dollar-a-word freelancer and my husband a warehouse worker, so it was all we could do to support the existing children at a grubby lower-middle-class level. Ignoring the insult to those who are or were lower-middle-class–grubby? Not in the …
I’m pleased to hear this
Looks like they’re going to finish the space station after tall. Good news…as long as it doesn’t slow down the march to the Moon and Mars. Look, folks, we need it all, all right? More of everything in space. Including, I dearly hope, me someday.
Reading Diary: July 23, 2004
Well, we did very little reading of The Amber Spyglass this week, and I still haven’t finished Red Thunder, so not a great week for reading. (Oh, sure, I read tonnes of stuff on the Internet every day, but that’s not real reading…is it?) I did finish the new Discover. And browsed other mags that …
Writing Diary: July 24, 2004
*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 …
Mirror, mirror on the moon
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.
New template
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?
Writing Diary: July 22, 2004
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 …
Possible gratuitous anti-Americanism…
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 …
A fine upright young monkey
This is weird: after nearly dying from a viral infection, this macaque at an Israeli zoo has begun walking upright like a human being.
Writing Diary: July 21, 2004
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 …
Last man on the moon
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. …
My latest live walk and vlog
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