I just took the Earth Day Footprint Quiz which is quite interesting. HERE ARE YOUR FOOTPRINT RESULTS: CATEGORY GLOBAL ACRES FOOD 2.2 MOBILITY 1.5 SHELTER 3.7 GOODS/SERVICES 3.5 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 11 IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 GLOBAL ACRES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXISTS 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL ACRES PER […]
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I think I mentioned that my desktop computer was dead when we returned from Iceland. What I didn’t mention was that my scanner and my camera both require a serial port, which neither of our laptops have. Now, you’d think that we could just buy an adapter cable, but nooooo. The cursed machines only work
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I picked this up at Chris Azure’s site. I know it sounds like I travel all the time, but look at all the gray areas I haven’t been yet. create your own visited country map create your own personalized map of the USA Well… Okay. Five years of tour will cover most of the U.S.
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Paul Abbamondi posted a list of his favorite short stories EVAR back in November and I somehow missed it. Look! I’m number 31. #31.Mary Robinette Kowal – “Cerbo en Vitra ujo” (Effing disturbing. That’s all I’ll say.) This is the first time I’ve ever been on anyone’s favorites list and I’m just delighted.
So. The day after I get back from New York, Rob and I will get on a plane and go to Hawaii. I can’t think of a better way to recover from building monkeys, can you? We’ll be there from February 23-March 1.
Ahoy, me maties! Cap’n Adams decided that it were a good idear to give ye lot o’ scurvy dogs a wee bit more time to get yer stories in ta him. Bein’ the benevolent cap’n he is, he’s givin’ ye till February 28th ta submit to Shimmer. But not a moment longer, or he’ll keel-haul
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Just to keep you up to date, here’s the website for, Serendib, the show I’ll be building monkeys for. The Ensemble Studio Theatre First Light Mainstage Production Power. Sex. Status. And that’s just the monkeys David Zellnik’s SERENDIB is a witty comedy about a group of scientists trying to save the world’s most important monkey
I spent more time packing today and got a corner of the dining room cleared. Whew. Also, finished reading The Android’s Dream, by John Scalzi, which I really enjoyed. Good clean fun, which is something to say for a book that starts with a chapter-long fart joke. Rob and I took the bus over to
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Ooo! Ooo! Who wants to go with me to the Morgan Library & Museum to see the exhibit on Victorian Bestsellers? Although today’s public may think of the bestseller as a relatively recent development generated by modern mass marketing, many of the literary formulas and publishing techniques of the bestseller actually date to the nineteenth
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This morning Rob and I were standing in the kitchen. The classical radio station was playing the background as we waited for the opera to begin. As we were talking, I heard the announcer say, “And that was ‘The dance of the dolls’,” which immediately made my head turn to the radio, because dancing dolls
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Yep. David Lee Roth performs “Jump” with a bluegrass band. You must listen to believe. You have John Scalzi to thank for pointing this beauty out to me.
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I went into the WRW recording studio today to get caught up on some of the audio work that I owe folks. I didn’t get it all finished, so Rob and I are hoping to head back down tomorrow at some point. (Thanks, Sam!) It felt good to get back in there, and I loved