I’ve always wanted a bicycle built for two. Here is one at a reasonable price. It has good reviews and seems to be well built. The trouble is, there’s nowhere to use it around here. I can see putting it in the back of the truck for vacations, though. (I am experimenting with something called […]
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: August 2008
Monday
Monday, August 18, 2008
It’s Monday, I have nothing important to say. My brain is not working, yet. Here is something to fill the space. (via icanhascheezburger.com) more cat pictures
Xibalba – Portal to the Mayan Underworld
Friday, August 15, 2008
I have read that many spec-fic editors want to buy stories about people from non-European cultures. Even though the readership is still mostly Euro, the sense of other invoked by a foreign culture enhances the speculative fiction feel of stories. There’s lots of good grist for the spec-fic mill here. You can feel the other […]
Andre Norton – Forerunner Foray
Friday, August 15, 2008
Over the weekend I bought 6 paperbacks at a garage sale for a quarter each. A kid was reading every bit of trash he could find and he was selling off the books that he didn’t want to read again. Well, his trash is my treasure and I found, out of the hundreds, a few […]
Search CraigList for Telecommute Jobs
Thursday, August 14, 2008
I’ve been getting lots of hits on my CraigsList search page and the widget I wrote to search for musical instruments is getting hits. I made a JavaScript widget that I can put on any web page and search from there. It get’s pretty good results. Here is the code if you want to cut […]
Stars Names
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Today, I made the mistake of checking who was using my star name widget on their web pages. There is a Russian social site where a hundred or so people use the code and there must be 30 people on a site called downlink using it. I saw a geocities site that was getting a […]
What is PayPal?
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Received in mail today from my FreeNameAStar.com site. If this is for real, it certainly forces me to evaluate some assumptions about people using the Internet. The lack of punctuation and capitals might be clues, but it makes you wonder who Trevor can be. Is he very young or very old? Has he been on […]
Reciprocal Links
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
I’ll link you if you link me? It’s a waste of time. Google’s rank algorithm treats reciprocal links as a wash. I’ve been getting lots of offers for reciprocal links lately. I ignore all of them. In my case the link would be lopsided. The person begging a link would get a link from a […]