Tomorrow is the official release date of Firefox 3.0. This new version of the browser has many new features as well as running faster with a smaller memory footprint. When was the last time that you have heard of a program getting smaller and faster? The link above is to a Firefox release party site. […]
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: June 2008
More Green Crude
Monday, June 16, 2008
Here is another article about researches using genetically altered microbes to produce crude oil ready for a refinery. This one uses Yeasts or e. Coli to process anything with enough sugar or simple carbohydrates. The process of fermentation doesn’t produce methanol, but crude oil-like hydrocarbons. The microbes already produce fatty acids and alcohols, and hydrocarbons […]
Turkey Vultures
Sunday, June 15, 2008
In a trip to NJ this morning we passed an abandoned building with large turkey vultures guarding the parking area.
Fritz Leiber Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser
Friday, June 13, 2008
Neil Gaiman has reported on his blog that he recorded the intros to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories for Audible. The good news is not that Gaiman did the intros, although he is a good choice, but that the stories are going to appear as audio. A few years ago I read […]
There’s a New Guy in Town – MagReal
Thursday, June 12, 2008
I hadn’t been looking at Duotrope or Ralan in a while. Since Speculations.com went pffft, I have been out of touch with the Spec Fic community. Another Realm’s board is all but dead, and the SamsDot board is primarily SamsDot business. I have even tried browsing sff.net, but their Usenet based discussion is clunky and […]
That Damned TZ Bridge
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Nyack Daily Snapshot Blog has a couple of pictures of that DAMNED TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE. I bought tickets for the TZ Express Bus. $7 buys you 6-3/4 trips. I got them at the Shop Rite store where I buy groceries. I have reset the clock radio 15 minutes earlier and have every intention of […]
Green Crude – Sapphire Energy
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sapphire Energy has a genetically altered algae that produces hydrocarbons as part of its metabolism. The stuff can be pumped into a refinery and cracked like crude oil to produce gasoline, diesel, and heating oil. I tried to find out if they have over the counter stock, but it looks like the venture capitalists are […]
1937 Letter Squires/Tremaine
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Chris Perridas has antiquarian blog about old pulp magazines and I have added him to my “Good Morning” list of blogs that I read. He has a nice picture of a note from F. Orlin Tremaine (who edited Astounding before Campbell) to Roy A. Squires who was a fan at the time, but went on […]