My friend Skip sends me all of those awful forwarded email jokes. He has a low threshold of humor so I just delete them. This one was bad enough to blog. The caption is “Never Fart in a Wet Suite”. I am so sorry.
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 2008
Amazon’s Digital Text Platform
Monday, January 14, 2008
If you are not aware of it, Amazon has released a book reading device called the Kindle. This is a nice little electronic book/mp3 player that lets you read electronic books. It has been getting good reviews from such notables as Neal Gaiman and Robert J. Sawyer. I suspect that authors like the Kindle because […]
Basics of Science Fiction Writing
Saturday, January 12, 2008
RCC has a course in SF writing (page 24 in the link above). I get in for free because I’ve been teaching there. I am considering going. Only one thing wrong with it is that I can’t find anything published by the teacher. I don’t know if Anne Phyllis Pinzow has a pseudonym or not, […]
How to recognise a good programmer
Saturday, January 12, 2008
I liked this article, even though it was not well written. I have been saying these same things from time to time.
Dangerous Physics
Friday, January 11, 2008
I have thought a little about the possibility of a physics experiment destroying the Earth or the Sun. It would make a good short story. A powerful particle accelerator might create a black hole and if it doesn’t evaporate through Hawking Radiation, it might grow up and quickly swallow the Earth. (See the great lost […]
Star Wars Theme
Thursday, January 10, 2008
I read on his blog where Jim was trying to learn the Star Wars Theme on his keyboard. This got me to thinking about my own HarpTab.com website and how hard it is to read tab. I wrote a Flash object that lets you play single piano notes using JavaScript and now my tab site […]
Cat named Gracie stuck in tree
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
This isn’t my Gracie, but she lives in Dumont, about 10 miles from here. It’s a funny video. (Don’t worry, Gracie is rescued.)
How to Make a Schadenfreude Pie
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
In our poker game, there is a situation which we have named the Schadenfreude. This is a position of advantage and power over the other players. The player who is in the Schadenfreude position can change the outcome of the game and has a higher chance of winning. Schadenfreude has become a new millennium cliche, […]