Monthly Archives: November 2006

Long live bacteria

Posted on November 9, 2006 by Kirsten

Here’s a tribute (by Lynn Margulis and Emily Case, in Orion) to the little critters. Some of the language of the piece is a bit much — you just can’t use “xenophobia” to characterize anyone’s attitude toward germs. LOL But … Continue reading →

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No Face on Mars?????

Posted on November 9, 2006 by Kirsten

First, it turns out all those fine photos of Nessie were a bunch of hoaxes. Now it emerges that the Face on Mars is really . . . a MESA? Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us all that … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 8, 2006 by Kirsten
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Day 7

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Kirsten

No additional progress. Why? Because I was cranking on a writing project for work from about 9 this morning to about 7 tonight and I can’t look at a computer screen any more! :-) Technorati Tags: National Novel Writing Month

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Pondering crit partners

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Kirsten

If you haven’t seen it yet, Bernita aka “An Innocent A-Blog” has a post up today about crit partners which (as her posts always do!) makes for thought-provoking reading. Technorati Tags: writing, critique partners

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Day 6 . . .

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Kirsten

1391 words. Hey. That’s 1391 more words than I had written on Day 4. Unless you count the words I wrote on the novel idea I scrapped on Day 3. (Do you think it’s fair to combine them?) :-D Technorati … Continue reading →

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Lyrical lines

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Kirsten

Talking to a friend a couple of weeks ago about pop music. It was after I’d cited a Little Feat song in this post and he’d looked at a YouTube clip of Fat Man in the Bathtub. He remarked on … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo Day 5

Posted on November 5, 2006 by Kirsten

Well. I switched novels. Had to. I had a premise with idea #1 but I couldn’t come up with a grabby plot. Premise #2 is one I’d kicked around a couple of years ago and remembered it the other night. … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 5, 2006 by Kirsten
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Things I didn’t know about Beatrix Potter

Posted on November 5, 2006 by Kirsten

She was a brilliant naturalist — one of the first people in the world to recognize that lichens are a symbiotic organism, for instance. As a woman, however, she was excluded from assuming what would have been, today, her place … Continue reading →

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