When there was the unpleasantness with AstondingStories.com, I registered StrangeTales.net along with AstoundingTales.com as alternatives. We went with AstoundingTales.com and I’ve been using strangetales as a place to put some odd pieces of thought and code. When I started redoing the AudioCD.com interface (previous post), I decided to redo the StrangeTales.net interface and use it […]
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: April 2005
Testing a new interface
Thursday, April 21, 2005
I have a very pretty home page template for the new AudioCD.com. This is just a home page for the time being. It works on FireFox and IE6, but I don’t know about primitive browsers. If you have an old browser (IE5, Netscape, or older AOL) please let me know how it works. http://www.strangetales.net/acd/index.html The […]
Predictions of Astrologers
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
This is a story idea. I just read where Robert Burton, an English philosopher and Novelist during the early 1600s, committed suicide for the silly reason that his astrological charts indicated that he would die on a certain day. He wanted the charts to be correct and could not suffer the humiliation of having made […]
Doing Panoramas
Monday, April 18, 2005
Erica is kicking around the idea of making some money off of her fancy camera by doing some real estate shots, especially panoramas. We’ve been looking into it and it seems like something that we can do, leveraged by my own techno-dweeb background. I created a little javascript program to display panoramas. This code is […]
weekend pics
Sunday, April 17, 2005
I had a busy, if uninteresting weekend, and I have the pics to prove it. Friday night I finally had a good poker game. I won $6, which is a big night. Here’s a picture of Jim, and then later, Jim and Bob. On Saturday, I went town to the Trenton State Computer Festival. This […]
Cat Nights
Friday, April 15, 2005
Space.com had a nice article about Cat Nights and feline constellations. Their lead off paragraph, however is a great idea for a short story. Not too many people are aware of the term “Cat Nights,” which goes back to the days when people believed in witches. Old Irish legends have it that a witch could […]
Garden Gnome story idea
Friday, April 15, 2005
I’ve often thought that there has to be a good story in ceramic garden gnomes. The story would be a variation on a fairy tale, told in modern times with garden gnomes coming to life and doing good or evil. So now – truth is stranger than fiction – the real story is written for […]
New Word – Politikverdrossenheit
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Politikverdrossenheit – contempt for the political establishment. The German language allows for making new words by concatenating existing words. In English, we just have phrases that are often repeated. New German words, though, have a certain appeal in that they usually encapsulate an idea much better than a phrase. As an English speaker, words like […]