I get hundreds of thousands of spam comments on my blogs. Most are blocked by my own invention that validates user credentials against a good spam database. Sometimes one slips through. A website from Poland started hitting all of my sites hard (now it is blocked) but before it did, I got several spam comments […]
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: March 2012
Google Sky Map
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Justine sent me a free Android phone that she got in a trade in deal. I have it set as a pay as you go. I don’t have it set for data as I don’t believe in spending $50 a month to read my email on the bus. The phone is quite nice except for […]
Stories
Monday, March 12, 2012
My story If Wishes… will appear in a SamsDot publication sooner or later. I don’t know if it will be April or later this year. Evidently, they liked it a lot and the editor wanted it in the next issue of Shelter of Daylight magazine, but the magazine may have already gone to the printers. […]
Rudy Rucker to read in NYC
Friday, March 9, 2012
I am a fan of Rudy Rucker (in spite of the fact the he hated the story I submitted to his zine). I wish there was an easy way to go to this show next Tuesday night. I keep going over ways to make it there. I can drive, I guess, leaving work at 4:30, […]
Our Universe by Francis P. Wilkin
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Geekier than Big Bang Theory – good stuff. Our Universe by Francis P. Wilkin – YouTube.
Butch and Larry
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
I don’t know where he got it, but my brother Larry sent me this. My friend “Butch” is on the left. Larry is on the right.
Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story | Video on TED.com
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
I am thinking about going to see the movie “John Carter”. The book, A Princess of Mars, is a very good read. E.R. Burroughs sold this story to All Story Magazine in 1911 for $400. It was his first novel and pretty good for a first try. He went on to write many more Martian […]