I have been accused of not including women writers in my lists of favorites, but I always include Andre Norton and lately, Leigh Bracket. Leigh Brackett, known as The Queen Of Outer Space, has written some great SF over the years. Her collaboration with Ray Bradbury, Lorelei of the Red Mist, is one of my […]
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: July 2008
Drabbles
Monday, July 28, 2008
A Drabble is a story of exactly 100 words. I have read about this kind of thing, but I have enough trouble making an understandable story in 4,000 words, so I have never entered – until now. It seems I will do anything to avoid work. The problem with 100 words is that you can […]
Election Polls Badge
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Electoral-Vote.com has these neat badges for blogs. If you remember, 4 years ago I made several posts about Electoral-Vote.com and RealClearPolitics.com. I found that these two sites really helped in understanding what was going on in the election. It looks like a landslide today, but this tightens up quite a bit by November. If the […]
Codex Sinaiticus
Friday, July 25, 2008
This is an interesting site. It is dedicated to the oldest version of the New Testament known to exist. Christianity as an organized religion was put together around the year 360 and this bible dates from this period. The text is different from modern versions because the text was being revised and corrected considerably in […]
John Brunner – Catch a Falling Star
Thursday, July 24, 2008
I used Brunner’s Shockwave Rider as required reading in a course I taught in Artificial Intelligence. In 1975 Brunner was able to predict the WWW, if not in specific details, in attitude. The book describes a world wide interactive information network. He was the first person to describe a "worm" or self replicating computer program […]
Boom
Thursday, July 24, 2008
It’s raining heavy this morning. I slipped on the wet terrazzo floor in the lobby of office building where I work. I hit hard. Nothing is broken, but boy am I sore. The longer I sit in this chair, the more my back hurts. It is going to be a long day. I did not […]
Blues/R&B for Barack Obama
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Sam Waymon is providing the music for an Obama voter registration drive in Nyack at the Gazebo in Memorial Park. Sam is the brother of the Late Nina Simone and an avid Obama supporter. I’ve played harmonica with Sam many times at the jams in Nyack and other places. I hope the weather holds out, […]
Search Craigslist with Google
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I made a form to search all CraigsList.org locations with one click. This should be useful to someone. Search Craigslist with Google