Here is a Panorama that I made with ULEAD 360. The software works, as you can see. It creates a very large MOV file that takes a while to load.This is from my back yard. You can see the back of the house, the chicken coop. For those who knew me 30 years ago, this […]
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: February 2006
Gardner Dozois on Accepting stories
Sunday, February 5, 2006
There’s a very interesting discussion going on over at Asimov’s discussion board. I will quote Mr. Dozois, but you should click on the link to check out the discussion. The bbs uses frames so I can’t bookmark the actual discussion, but you can find it by looking for the topic “The Best SF Magazine” and […]
Last Weekend’s Images
Saturday, February 4, 2006
First is an image of Jim Callan going to pocket at our weekly poker game last Saturday. Jim hardly ever loses and when he lost his openers and had to go back for more chips, I was lucky enough to be able to document the strange occurrence. I was able to get some beautiful images […]
Recorded another story: Frogs in Aspic
Saturday, February 4, 2006
Gracie helped me record another story: Frogs in Aspic. I also received a story from Frank Gibbard. I will be posting both of these on audiocd.com this afternoon as I have time. The cats forced me to record the story three times. Finally, I had to lock myself in the bedroom with cats howling at […]
More POD economics
Friday, February 3, 2006
I just got the quote back from India for the generic project that I sent. I figured 128 pages and a 6×9 inch zine with #30 (very light) magazine stock. I specified 4 color #50 uncoated cover stock. It should have the look and feel of the Classic TV Guide – think b&w pages plus […]
Another couple of stories by Arthur
Friday, February 3, 2006
Arthur did it again. Listen to his newest free MP3 stories.
Arthur Sanchez Records an Audio Story
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Arthur Sanchez sent me his first audio story. It’s only two minutes but it’s a very good story for being a flash. The danger of a flash is crowding too much into a small space or creating just an epithet. Arthur overcomes both hurdles and creates a cute tale of a ghost, a little boy […]