I had a meeting in the morning about an upcoming project for the Saskatchewan Science Centre, then after lunch got a good hour-plus in on Shards of Exalibur, followed by a pretty good hour-plus on the Orson Scott Card bio, so all in all, a reasonably productive day! Sometime this coming week I’ve got to …
First methane, now ammonia; the case for microbial life on Mars keeps getting stronger.
This sounds like good news for places with a high rate of auto theft…like Regina!
The morning after, that is… Yesterday: spent the morning (after walking around the lake and my reading/coffee/breakfast time) on SF Canada tasks, sending out the renewal notices to those who have not yet renewed. Then it was off to Second Cup for another whack at Shards of Excalibur. I’ve only got about 90 pages …
How many insulting, condescending anti-American phrases can you find in this story?
This ties in very well with my recent article on virtual reality: researchs from the Virtual Reality Lab at the University of Buffalo have developed a new virtual clay sculpting system that transmits a sensation of touch from the virtual world to the real world, so you can sculpt a virtual block of clay and …
Stephen Hawking says he was wrong about black holes–he now believes that information about objects that fall into black holes is not irretrievably lost. And he loses a bet.
A productive day, I thought. This morning was one of those when I co-hosted Radio dell’Arte on CJTR, Regina’s community radio station; we interviewed a Regina-born actress from the cast of The Delicate Art of Parking, a comic mockumentary that is opening here on Friday (the director and several cast members will be in attendance) …
I’ve long heard it said that prairie boys make excellent sailors. I don’t know for certain that that’s true, but what I can say, after seeing Prairie Salt at the MacKenzie Art Gallery Saturday night, is that at least one prairie boy has made an excellent musical about sailing. Prairie Salt was written and produced …
I got in a good 75 minutes or so on Excalibur Reforged today. Sample section: Icy salt water. Gray sky. Tossing waves stretching to the indistinct horizon, lost in haze or distant rain or snow. A shore as barren as images from the surface of Mars. A hand gripping hers, pulling her down… “Let go!” …
It appears that reading newspapers online is far more environmentally friendly than reading the dead-tree version.
Have you ever wondered why we consider “once in a blue moon” to be the epitome of rare occurrence? This is a good time to ask, because July 2004 is one of those rare months when there are two full moons: one on July 2, and a second on July 31. According to folklore, the …
