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What Lies Beyond

Posted in Entertainment, Likes, Science!, tagged , , , , , , , on December 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Erik Wernquist’s lovely short film “Wanderers” is making the rounds online, and deservedly so. The piece uses dramatic visualizations of our solar system and is narrated with audio excerpts from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot. If you have four minutes and a yen for optimistic futurism, let this film help you imagine humanity’s future on the open road, “out there.” And it’s always good to hear Carl Sagan.

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Seeing Daylight

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 25, 2014| 2 Comments »

Hey, I hit 50,194 words for NaNoWriMo today! The novel still needs work, of course, but I’ve reached my November target. Now I can concentrate on shaping the story… after a little break to celebrate:)

For those of you still at it, keep going!

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Happy Halloween! Love, The Sun

Posted in Holidays, Likes, tagged , , , , , on October 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »

To The People of Earth,
You’re welcome.
Happy Halloween!
Love,
The Sun
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Jack-o-lantern Sun. Credit: NASA/SDO

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Wonder Woman

Posted in Entertainment, Likes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »

A Wonder Woman movie is finally really actually happening. This article at Tor.com lays out what we know (not much) and how this movie fits with the WB film slate.

Few details are available other than a 2017 release date, so let me leave you with Jill Lepore’s New Yorker piece on everyone’s favorite lasso-toting amazon and this fascinating Smithsonian article on The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman.

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Shadow Unit 1: Free

Posted in Entertainment, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

This has been true for a while but Shadow Unit 1 is available to download for free:

Shadow Unit is a contemporary science fiction series about a group of FBI agents struggling to protect humanity from the worst monsters imaginable. Except some of our heroes may be on the road to becoming monsters themselves….

Get started on this reader-funded series with writing by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, and Will Shetterly for nothing, nada, zip, tipota!

Kindle version at Amazon: Shadow Unit 1. Epub, pdf, and other formats at Smashwords: Shadow Unit 1.

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Keys to the Universe

Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 20, 2014| 1 Comment »

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
― T.S. Eliot
I’ve just discovered a lovely series by NPR on libraries. It’s ongoing but there are already close to a dozen pieces on the role libraries play in society, how they are transforming to meet new needs (disaster preparedness, anyone?) and the challenges they face in this new century.
Also, I had no idea that not all states supported public libraries. Srsly?

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Make Mistakes

Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something.

This is a terrific saying. Thanks to Epic Reads for the lovely image, and thanks to Neil Gaiman for saying it.

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Crap Day? No Problem!

Posted in Entertainment, Likes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2014| 1 Comment »

So there I was fighting with some work stuff and fixing to have a perfectly crappy afternoon when a little lightbulb went off over my head, just like in the cartoons. A few clicks later and all was once again right with the world. Go ahead try it, bet it will work for you too:)

Yeah, I saw Guardians of the Galaxy. If you haven’t, it’s a damn fine movie. Damn fine!

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Supermoon!

Posted in Likes, Science!, tagged , , , , , , on August 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

I now interrupt my not-at-all-planned blog vacation week (moving stuff, traveling, working, moving more stuff, more working) with this announcement:

Tonight is the best night to see a perigee full moon in 2014! That’s when the moon is not only full, but as close to us (Earth and its -lings, that is) as possible. Sure, supermoons seem to be a dime a dozen this year but tonight the view of our celestial sidekick will truly be Super. Becoming full at the same hour as perigee, the moon will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter than normal. That’s about as impressive as it comes.

"Supermoon comparison" by Marcoaliaslama - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

“Supermoon comparison” by Marcoaliaslama – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Would you like to know more?

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Literature, Lost and Found

Posted in Likes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Here’s a fun article at Modcloth about an independent librarian, cultural historian, community builder and all-around book maven:

Best Job Ever: Renegade Librarian Megan Prelinger

The Prelinger Library is located in San Francisco and is open on Wednesdays, but much of the collection is also available online.

I just asked the question,  ‘What would an alternative research library look like? And, what would research look like if it was as much fun as going out on a field trip?’

That sounds like my kind of library.

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