I heat my house with natural gas, but I augment that with wood. I can’t remember how much wood costs per cord, I think more than $200. I thought that it might be nice to compare that with heating with gas. There are a great many variables here. One is the number of BTUs released […]
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 2011
South Cape
Friday, June 10, 2011
We did not catch anything. Nothing was biting. It was beautiful. No sunburn, this year.
Vacation: New England Guitar Stores
Friday, June 10, 2011
So we would have something interesting to do on vacation, I googled vintage guitar stores that were near our path to Cape Cod. Of the 5 stores that we stopped at, 3 were closed. One was out of business and the other two were locked up. One of the closed stores had a music equipment […]
Contest -The Robot Felt…
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
There’s a story contest. The rules are” start with the words “The Robot Felt” and end with “In the end, the robot felt nothing. He wasn't programmed to.” Limit 2,000 words. No pay, as far as I can see, but your story will appear in a Simon & Schuster paperback. I have a story that […]
Free – L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories eBook
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Amazon has LA Noire, a collection of classic Noire stories by some of the best writers of dark and detective fiction. (This is not Science Fiction). Grab it now for your Kindle. Amazon.com: L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories eBook: Rockstar Games: Kindle Store.
Gone Fishing
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
My brother Larry and I are going for our annual “pretending to fish” tour of Cape Cod. I will be blogging from the road when I get a chance. Of course, it looks like rain. We go fishing on a nearly desolate beach on the south west corner of the cape. It’s only us, sand, […]
Totally Anonymous
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
There was some discussion today on the interweb about a website called Silk Road. The link below is to the Wired article, because the actual website is blocked here at work. The point is that that Silk Road has created an anonymous exchange that is, essentially, untraceable. Today it is used for buying and selling […]
Kill The Irishman
Monday, June 6, 2011
Erica and I watched this the other night. I don’t usually like gangster movies, but this was very good. Perhaps it is my Irish roots kicking in. Rent it if you get a chance.