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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Sign, sign, everwhere a sign
Damn Interesting has a . . . damn interesting . . . article up about the efforts being made to devise warning signs for our radioactive waste dumps. We need to erect a warning that could be understood by people … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Technology
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Home Sweet Sprawl
I have a recurring nightmare in which I return to my childhood home and discover that the wooded property that flanks it to the east–a couple square miles of scrubby ash and white pine–is being developed. In some versions of … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Why nibbles aren’t enough
When you’re shopping for an agent, “they” say, you have to query a lot of them. Dozens, anyway. It’s the “only my mom knows how special I really am” approach to finding an agent. You have this book, you know … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
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The answers are in
Evil Editor has published the answers to his match-the-title-t0-the-synopsis contest. I picked three right. No prize for me! :-) Here are the fake synopses I contributed: Little Girl Blue Will a sex-change operation finally enable a ravishing but desperately insecure … Continue reading
To blog or not to blog . . .
If you’re a writer-o’-books, the answer to this question is “depends on who you ask.” Miss Snark has recommended that novelists be cautious about blogging — because when you’re blogging, you’re not working on your novel. But she also wrote, … Continue reading
Where I am?
Writing. Had a breakthrough on the plot in my novel-in-progress so I’ve been doing that in my spare time lately instead of blogging. I promise this will wear off soon tho! Although hopefully not until the entire first draft is … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
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There’s a really interesting article on Salon’s website
But I’m not going to post about it, or link to it, because I wasn’t able to negotiate their “watch an ad to read an article” hoop. I tried. Twice. Irritating enough when it does work — enough so that … Continue reading
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My contest picks
Okay, here are my picks for Evil Editor’s “match the synopsis to the title” contest. This was hard! I’ll be very surprised if anyone gets even half of them right. At first I was picking the ones that seemed kind … Continue reading
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More weird science
Via Chuck Simmons: the University of Rochester website has published a piece about an experiment by optics professor Robert Boyd. He’s made light go backwards. You read that right. Oh my. Technorati Tags: negative-speed light pulse
Posted in Rochester, New York, Science
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Oh hail!
We had quite a thunderstorm go through — with some of the biggest hail I’ve seen in a long time. Here it is, coming down. Here you can see the layer of it in one of my gardens! It turned … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Rochester, New York
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