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And a cheap one it is. The Camping rapture people, they’re just too easy. Now Harold Camping says that the Rapture did happen, we just didn’t notice. And the world will be ending on October 21, thank you very much. But one of the associated websites still says May 21, with a cute little count-down [...]

Need a space program? Start your own! To add to the cheer, more short-sighted behavior: Governor Corbett’s new Pennsylvania state budget cuts the funding for Penn State and other state universities by over 50%. Yes, the economy is bad. Yes, the state and nation do not have as much money as they’d like. Cutting education [...]

I and 120,000 other people watched online as the Discovery landed for the last time today. The shuttle program is the space program I grew up with, for better and worse. I was ten when the Columbia went up for the first time in April 1981. I sat in math class and watched the Challenger [...]

And goodbye February. I’ve never gotten along with that month. In fact, I blame it for a lot of things. Good riddance until next year. I was moderately productive in February, in the writing department. I finished and revised two short stories, and am just waiting on my beta reader before I submit them. I [...]

Hugo-winning author and Shadow Unit co-founder Elizabeth Bear, author of some of my favorite books, has a new book out today, Grail, third in a science fiction trilogy (Dust and Chill being its predecessors). I may have gone on a bit of a Bear-book-buying binge. When I went looking for a copy of Grail for [...]

(The follow-up to this post is here.) Very important note: This so far is all speculation based on bits and pieces I’ve found online, common sense, and a good biological education. After the press conference and the expected Science paper come out, I will write up a better and more accurate summary. This is what [...]

So I’m sitting at the computer listening to music that I’d downloaded instantly instead of purchasing on a CD and ripped, or cassette, or 8-track, or LP. And I’m copying data from cdrom to my USB Harddrive of Holding, and that data used to be on zip disks once upon a time. While I’m chatting [...]

Let me show you something. Can’t read that? How about this? That would be a 77. No, really. It would. Right there, just below my name. I’m having trouble believing it myself. And here’s the photo version. We’re in good company. This anthology started as a twitter joke, and was picked up by a small [...]

Not bad: 2900 words, some dishwashing and a killer chocolate cake. I haven’t written much fiction in the past few months, so it took a while to remind myself what I was doing and to get back into the mindset of writing fiction. Tomorrow should be better, except that I’m busy all afternoon. And then [...]

Sunday afternoon, fiddling around on the computer and organizing stuff. Fiction, non-fiction, photos… it’s all a mess, and all needs sorted out. At least if I post the links I’ve been accumulating, I don’t need to keep track of them any more. Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: One of my interests is in informative ways [...]