Snow Crash is much like an action packed buddy movie with lots of car crashes and an implausible plot with guys doing guy stuff. Just the sort of book I like. There is some good fun stuff here and some original thinking. The book is mostly a mish-mash off imagery of the sort that Cyberpunks […]
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: January 2005
Beer Prevents Certain Cancers
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Thanks to SciScoop.com, I found out that beer contains compounds that fight certain cancers. I will herewith drink more beer. My ancestors who came to New England on the Mayflower stopped at Plymouth Rock, not because it was a good anchorage, but because they were forced to come ashore when they ran out of beer. […]
Human Animal Chimeras
Thursday, January 27, 2005
National Geographic has an article on mixing human genomic material with animals. I have used this several times. Twice in the pig stories at KeithGraham.com and in several unfinished stories. This article describes Chinese scientists using rabbits as a medium to grow human stem cells, by injecting human DNA into rabbit cells. There is also […]
Hot Tuna in Nyack
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Here’s how the evening went. At 5pm I picked up Larry (my brother) and we went to Suffern where his band was playing at the Wicky Lounge. This bar used to be a practice studio, but Suffern has changed from just another red-neck town on the Jersey border. 20 years ago, the bars all used […]
More cute cat pictures
Sunday, January 23, 2005
My sister-in-law, Justine gave me a laptop computer. I is a Gateway m520mx with a huge screen and 60 gig drive and 512 meg ram and a dvd burner and built in wifi and a place to put my flash memory from the camera. I am connected to the internet now through a neighbors wifi […]
P&E Poll Drama Continues
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
The Predators & Editors Readers Poll is now mostly in the hands of Romantic Erotica eZines. Arthur and I are doing well. Arthur is the #3 eZine editor and Astounding Tales is the #4 eZine. I think that this is pretty good. This represents the reaching out that Arthur and I have done – for […]
P&E voting form
Thursday, January 13, 2005
I’ve made a Preditors and Editors Voting form to help you vote for moi. http://www.strangetales.net/pevote.html
P & E Poll
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
I put AstoundingTales and Arthur Sanchez into the P&E poll for zine and editor. Now the rest is up to the almighty and our piddling readership. Links: Voting Tally I have to figure a way to hack the poll results. If GW can do it in Florida and Ohio, I should be able to come […]