There has been a LOT of blogs, news articles, essays and flame wars on how eBooks are either A) Destroying the publishing industry or B) a new cultural wave that will revolutionize our society. Anyone who has chatted with me knows that I love the idea of eInk technology. I’m looking forward to getting a … More Libraries and eBooks
This weekend, I was poking around a thrift shop (as I’m wont to do) and picked up a handful of cheap paperbacks. They were all books I have read before, but since they are so good and so cheap, I decided to reread and then pass them on to some deserving friends. One of them … More Great quote!
I was up in Pennsylvania this past weekend and had lunch at a wonderful place called “The Hidd’n Valley Restaurant”. You can find it about seven miles south of Orbisonia, on Route 522. The address is: 22612 Crogham Pike, Shade Gap, PA 17255 If you happen to find yourself around Orbisonia, PA, do yourself a … More Great Country Cookin’
My annual pilgrimage to BaltiCon is this coming weekend. If anyone wants to touch bases, here is my schedule: Friday at 6pm, I’ll be giving a class on Open Source Software for writers and authors. There will be handouts and usually a surprise or two. Saturday afternoon at 5pm, I’ll be having a book signing … More BaltiCon!
Back in the 1970s, NASA commisioned some studies of space habitats. From this research we got Gerald O’Neal’s famous “Colonies in Space” book as well as engineering design studies from several major universities. In order to visualize some of the designs, they commisioned some artists to show what they might look like. Here are some … More Some interesting art
It looks like there are shifter goats in Nigeria nowadays. From the article: “In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.”
I was just reading the current issue of What’s Next, which I recommend, by the way, and ran into this gem: “In closing it is probably worth mentioning Elizabeth Kuber-Ross’s five point model of how people deal with death. Stage 1 is disbelief, stage 2 is yearning, stage 3 is anger, stage 4 is depression … More Why are We So Angry?
This author brings up some good points on keeping the promises you make with your readers. I like to thing my stories work on that level. What do you think? Here are ten reasons why books are better than sex. I have had a lot of people compliment me on my photography. They seem to … More A Few Quickies
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