Valley Cottage Animal Hospital has asked us to provide some pictures so that Ollie can be featured on their website. Here is what I wrote up. After loosing two beloved cats to cancer in quick succession, we adopted from the pound two kittens, Gracie a small gray tabby girl and Ollie. Ollie, a bright orange […]
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 2006
Audio Update 2
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Well, my attempt to create audio versions of my stories using the little digital voice recorder was a failure. The voice was very compressed and distorted and there was a loud hiss. On the plus side, I was able to record two stories (one of them twice) in one lunch break. They were shorter stories, […]
Audio Update
Monday, January 23, 2006
For a over a year, I’ve been wanting to produce audio versions of my own stories and encourage other writers to make some, so that we could sell the results. I vowed that I would read a couple of my flash pieces into a PC and make them available this weekend. I did not do […]
Low Tolerance for Rudeness Today
Monday, January 23, 2006
This kind of thing happens to everyone. Last night I went to buy some groceries. I had 9 items and I got in the 15 items or less line. The person in front of me had about 30 items. So they divided it into two orders and paid twice in order to avoid waiting in […]
January Trip to the Beach
Sunday, January 22, 2006
We took a trip north this Sunday. In the previous post, I showed some pictures of United House Wrecking. When we left there we continued north to South Norwalk and Calf Pasture Beach. The Mural above, titled Calf Pasture Beach, by Alexander J. Rummle, is from the Norwalk City Hall, Common Council Hall.Erica and I […]
Weekend Joy Ride: United House Wrecking
Sunday, January 22, 2006
This weekend we went up to United House Wrecking in North Stamford, Connecticut. It is like a museum of interesting, oversize overpriced furniture and architectural pieces. I would love to own some of this. I would love to own a house that could fit some of it. They have free donuts and coffee, which made […]
Mood-altering cat parasites make women friendly and men into jerks
Sunday, January 22, 2006
BoinBoing has a post about a cat parasite, Toxoplasma, that alters the brain chemistry of those infected with it. It supposedly makes infected rats easier to catch. A parasite that causes rats to sacrifice themselves to cats may also change human behavior, making women more outgoing and warmhearted, and men more jealous and suspicious. The […]
"Intelligent design" not science: Vatican paper
Thursday, January 19, 2006
“Intelligent design” not science: Vatican paper In an article L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, there seems to be support for evolution over intelligent design. “intelligent design does not belong to science and there is no justification for the demand it be taught as a scientific theory alongside the Darwinian explanation,” said the article in the […]