For the curious reader of science fiction (scifi) and fantasy
This NASA image caught my eye on The Atlantic’s website. (Click the link if this embed code doesn’t work. Ah, nope, it doesn’t. Click the link.) Cloud vortices off Heard Island, south Indian Ocean, from NASA’s Aqua satellite. Cloud vortices off … Read More
I can’t figure out how to embed this (short) video, so I’ll just have to give you the link, at TheAtlantic.com: http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/11/even-gorillas-cant-resist-smartphones/413902/ The commenter noted that the girl seemed to be ignoring the magnificent creature beside her. I actually found … Read More
CBS announced today that they’re launching a new Star Trek series in January of 2017, to be aired on their paid subscription channel CBS All Access. The first episode will be on broadcast TV, to get us hooked. Alex Kurtzman, … Read More
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for 2015 is coming up, and I imagine there are a lot of writers who would enjoy another good book on writing or two. Or five. Or how about twenty-five, all in one bundle? It’s … Read More
This one took me completely by surprise. Starting today, Kobo is running a huge half-price sale on all ebooks published directly with them by the authors (through a program called Kobo Writing Life). That’s a huge number of books, and … Read More
Via the Washington Post, here’s a video of a leaf-clearing method I could get into. The guy’s broom breaks, and he looks for another solution:
I hadn’t played softball in at least twenty years, and when a bunch of people at our church retreat (on Thompson Island, in lovely Boston Harbor) got a game going, I thought, Why not? It’ll be fun! And it was, … Read More