I went to see Little Charlie and the Nightcats last Tuesday night. I am sure that you have no idea who these people are unless you are a musician or a harmonica player. Little Charlie Baty is the greatest guitar player that I have ever seen in person. He plays guitar in many styles from […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Free Name A Star rewrite
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I wrote the FreeNameAStar.com site about a year and a half ago. When I wrote it, I figured that 15,000 stars would last me three or four years. I did not anticipate how popular the site turned out to be. Friday I was getting 100 new star registrations a day. I ran out of stars […]
Clockwise or Counter
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Do you see the dancer as going around clockwise or counter clockwise (deosil or widdershins)?) It suppsed to have something to do with which side of the brain you use. The link above has the article.
Butch and the Beatles
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Paul “Butch” Mastrada, one of my guitar playing friends, saw the Beatles at Shea in 1965. He was interviewed on TV and the footage made it to a film called The Beatles Anthology. You see him in the beginning, first in a row behind those being interviewed and then he is the only guy interviewed. […]
Environmental Adventurer – 1970
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I was reading J’s Blog at Live Journal and besides being upset that I have yet another blog to read every morning, I started remembering about an Environmental Adventurer that I met in 1970. J is writing an environmental SF adventure story (you can read some samples on his blog). Earth Day was first held […]
Story Sale
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I just heard from David Lee Summers at Tales of the Talisman. They are buying “A Nest of Flames”. It will appear in the September 2008 issue – that’s quite a ways out. It has been a long time between sales.
SMS Text from PHP program
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
I got a list of cell phone email gateways and set up a test page. I was able to send an sms text message from the program to my own cell phone. If you have a cell phone, try to send yourself a text message using the link here and reply to it to let […]
Wild Turkeys
Monday, October 8, 2007
I found these in the camera. Last August a flock of wild turkeys nested in out back yard for a few days. These are ugly dudes. When I grew up there were no large birds. Now we have crows and geese, egrets, herons, hawks, falcons and owls. The DTD must have finally started to degrade. […]