My brother Larry and my friend Carlos never met a link they didn’t like. The latest thing is a warning message that comes up tells them their computer is under attack by a virus and they have to install the virus software to fight it. Naturally they comply and their machines are now zombies controlled […]
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 2010
AussieCon4 :: Short Story Competition
Sunday, February 14, 2010
There’s a contest run by Aussicon (this year’s Worldcon) for a spec-fic short story that includes an Australian place, and uses the phrase “make ready”. I guess you could retrofit a story to include these things, but the limit is 1500 words. It’s almost impossible to write a good short story in 1500 words (unless […]
Ollie and Max
Sunday, February 14, 2010
It is the allure of flannel sheets that brings these two together. The truth is that Ollie is jealous of Max and follows him around. They can usually be found in the choice cat resting places, snuggling together.
From the Snowstorm
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Here is an album of a few shots from last Wednesday’s blizzard.
Cats
Sunday, February 14, 2010
We’ve had a medical crisis here. Willy, our oldest cat, had a urinary blockage and needed immediate medical intervention. We wound up driving him down to the Oradell animal hospital where he underwent a procedure to reroute his urethra. This is a PU, and is quite unpleasant. Willy is doing better now and has to […]
Google Buzz Follower
Friday, February 12, 2010
One person started following me on Google Buzz. As near as I can make out, this person who I don’t know, might be a young lady from Oklahoma City. I assume that I was followed in error, so I blocked her. I hope that she is not insulted. The privacy issues of thinks like Facebook […]
Manuscript by RAH’s second wife on eBay
Friday, February 12, 2010
This is from the Forrest J. Ackerman estate. Forrey was a literary agent for a while and they’ve been selling stuff from the Garage Mahal. Robert A. Heinlein’s wives also acted as editors, and Leslyn MacDonald also was supposed to have been a writer. How much of this story is Leslyn is unknown. My thinking […]
Which one of these choices doesn’t belong?
Thursday, February 11, 2010
I saw I was receiving a lot of traffic from a discussion on reddit.com. Someone did an actual screen capture from Google that had suggestions for a partially filled out search string. It was a funny accident. Someone on reddit linked to my bee blog post What is a Bee Nuc?