SE Asia Images
Sunday, March 4th, 2007So, a couple more images from Thailand and Laos, from my recent trip. A pretty one: A tasty one: A heavenly one:
Archive for March, 2007
So, a couple more images from Thailand and Laos, from my recent trip. A pretty one: A tasty one: A heavenly one:
Go to the Nebulas?
Sunday, March 4th, 2007I'm trying to decide if I should go to the Nebulas. Wrestling with the time/money question vs. the intense desire to go out and see writer-people. And it's New York. Big cities are... big!
A pound of strawberries… and a little something special
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007One of the things that interested me about last years' e.coli in spinach thing was that it underlined how little we know about where/how our food is produced. There's a whole vast network of growers, packagers, distributors, and sales outlets and we have a pretty imperfect understanding of what happens ...
More on Writing Schedules
Friday, March 2nd, 2007So, as noted before, I shifted my writing to mornings rather than afternoons. This is part of a ten-year process in prioritizing my writing. It started with 6 am wake-ups to write in my journal, and metastasized into ditching my girlfriend (now wife) on weekends so that I could go ...
R is for Rocket, and P is for Perchlorate
Friday, March 2nd, 2007If you like hard sf, here's a hard truth about rockets. Solid rocket fuel has a nifty compound in it called perchlorate. Wherever you have rockets, you have perchlorate contamination. So what, you might ask? It gets into groundwater, and then it migrates. Who might care about this? People living ...
