A small shard of clay may have the oldest bit of written text ever discovered. I may come from a royal court in Jerusalem 4 centuries before King David. The fragment includes a partial text including the words “you,” “them,” and “later.” It leads one to wonder what was the original message said. Was it […]
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: July 2010
God? Is that you?
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
There are some rumors About A light Higgs boson (AKA the God Particle) that it has been discovered, not at Cern, but at the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. This what they are calling a a three-sigma effect, which means that it has a high probability of being true. (There […]
Honey for Sale
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Erica made this great sign and I made a label. We are in the Honey business – so far nobody has stopped by. I only put it out when we are home and presentable, which hasn’t been often.
Cats were eating man, 74, found dead with mom
Thursday, July 8, 2010
This is what I have to look forward to. NEW - Cats were eating man, 74, found dead with mom » Local News » The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA.
Consumer Wind Energy Generator
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
I want to buy a house on the Maine Coast so I can have some peace and write my novel when I retire. I will have a 5 or 6 of these windmills on the property to power my computers, a refrigerator, and a small TV. Now if they would only get a good internet […]
ReaderCon Next weekend
Thursday, July 1, 2010
I sorta kinda want to go to ReaderCon. I’d like to meet Steve in person and get John Shirley to sign a book. I also want to have a positive SF convention experience since cons have played such a large part in SF over the years. A con devoted to written SF might have a […]