Okay, I admit it. I have a weakness for TED Talks (and a few others). When I have quiet time alone I’ll often “waste” it there rather than on TV or whatever. I find the ideas people put forward there are always interesting, even if I don’t really agree with them totally, or perhaps even […]
Read More ...The Palcebo Effect, With Twists
Lisa sent me this link about ramifications of the placebo effect over the weekend. Interesting. People are just totally strange. # It was a pretty solid weekend behind the keyboard. I’ve noted a few times here that I’m breaking a novel into novella-length pieces, and I managed to get all the way through the third […]
Read More ...Basic Writing Equipment, Part The Second
A few days back I wrote about how pens have been going out of style, and how pencils (especially those of the mechanical variety) once held a place of high value across my family–well, at least between me and my dad. And now here comes an ode to the eraser that I found kind of […]
Read More ...Tim Pratt’s Impossible Dreams
I saw Tim Pratt linked to a short movie made of his Hugo winning story “Impossible Dreams,” It’s a really nice treatment of a great little story. Well worth the twenty minutes. The fact that it’s in a foreign language (for me!) and built in subtitles gives it an even better feel. # Moving into […]
Read More ...The Future of Pubic Transportation, US Style?
If you don’t follow him, Toby Buckell had a great quickie post up on roboticly driven cars. I’ve always thought this had the best probability of resulting in “public” transportation in the US. We’re a big ol’ nation, after all, and we like having our own car in order to drive from Wyoming to Poughkeepsie […]
Read More ...Restructuring a Book
I have decided I’m going to take an unpublished book of mine and split it into three or four sections with the intent of offering them as serial novellas. The book has been through several publishing houses and received positive comments (so I know it’s “good,” whatever that means in this context), but no commitments. […]
Read More ...WotF Writers on the Prediction Trail
It’s been said that Skiffy writers don’t predict the future, but instead they propose and explore options. Here’s an article that begs to differ. Lots of fun bits here. Share Me
Read More ...Monkeys, the Next New Market?
File this under the heading that it’s not only people who are strange. # In my “day off” yesterday, I ran into a pair of interesting videos about economics in the monkey community. That last isnot a sentence I every thought I might type in my lifetime, but it is proof that the world is […]
Read More ...Eat Like A Gold Medal Winner
You just have to love some headlines, eh? Such as this one: Why Some Olympic Athletes Need to Gorge. The answer is obvious, right? They need to eat thousands of calories because they burn thousands of calories. Well, duh. On the other hand, these athletes are the ultimate example of what I mean when I […]
Read More ...Unsticking it to the Man
Here’s an interesting TED talk on learning that also has an element of how the world is changing as a global entity. Lots of exciting stuff in the future, eh? # If you’re interested in piracy and the business of indie publishing then I think it’s important you read David Lowery’s response to a letter […]
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