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Posted in Likes, tagged awesome, Canada, Cape Breton, inspiration, lighthouses, Motivation, Nova Scotia, smile!, space, Thoughts, yay on March 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Today’s Reads
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged Alaska, Canada, creativity, David Mack, diversity, editing, Elmore Leonard, Fiction, fiction editors, food, genre fiction, hooptedoodle, Iceland, literature, Mount Everest, NPR, science, science fiction, sff, speculative fiction, William Gibson, Writers, writing on August 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Pieces I want to read, have just read, or am reading again:
Writing Stuff:
- William Gibson: the man who saw tomorrow
- David Mack on Why we must strive for diversity in SF/F
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction Editors Speak :: With Neil Clarke (editor of Clarkesworld magazine), Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (editors of the Long Hidden anthology), Alex Shvartsman (editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series), Brian White (editor of Fireside magazine) and Margot Atwell (moderator and publishing community manager at Kickstarter).
- Easy on the Hooptedoodle :: Classic Recipe for Authorial Invisibility, from the late, lamented Elmore Leonard.
Random Stuff:
- Iceland volcano: area north of Bardarbunga evacuated :: a.k.a. Volcano in Iceland No Longer Content to just Sit There and Look Pretty
- Mount Everest in 3D :: Because I don’t know about you but I’m never going up there in person. This visualization was built after the deaths of 16 Nepalese sherpas in April of this year.
- Watch Americans Try Famous Canadian Snack Foods :: Because hee hee hee hee! Also, sweet potato poutine is the bomb. Just saying.
- Why Vegetables Get Freakish In The Land Of The Midnight Sun :: Dang, a 138-pound cabbage. Everything really is bigger up there.
- Cities causing genetic changes in plants, animals :: Next stop, Sewer Godzilla. You heard it here first!
Zombie Warfighting
Posted in Entertainment, Funny, tagged Canada, CONPLAN, funny, inspiration, ishouldbeworking, Pentagon, speculative fiction, superfun, war fighting, War Plan Red, zombie Apocalypse, zombie preparedness, zombies on May 21, 2014| 1 Comment »
Today I’m reading up on ways to prepare for the zombie apocalypse, as one does. How, you ask (as one would)? Why, by studying the Pentagon’s own zombie preparedness manual, CONPLAN 8888, of course!
Yes, it’s tongue-in-cheek, but not entirely. The planners behind this gem of a training tool realized that zombies would be a great way to engage trainees in threat assessments and creative problem solving in the field, all without running afoul of an actual constituency. After all, pick a real country as the subject of your war plan and it’s a quick leak away from a serious misunderstanding (and no one wants to piss off Canada again, amIright? Canadian Bacon, people!). And what’s more fun than fighting zombies?
See for yourself, and watch out for those space zombies!
Canada Is Ready For Attacking Zombies
Posted in Other, tagged awesome, Canada, funny, resolutions, zombies on February 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
And I quote:
JOHN BAIRD: “Canada will never become a safe haven for zombies, ever.”
This country is great:) I don’t know about you but I’m feeling much safer.
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