We’re usually told that we get all the Vitamin-D we need from the sun. I’ve heard that 10-15 minutes a day in the sun is enough to give you your full daily requirements. However, now-a-days most of us avoid the sun and if we do go out we make sure to put on sunscreen and/or […]
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According to a Scientific American article from September 12, 2008: In fact, oil companies have yet to take advantage of the nearly 86 billion barrels of offshore oil in areas already available for leasing and development. So why are they chomping at the drill bit to open up the moratorium waters and survey them anew? […]
Okay, finally the new external disk drive arrived. Thankfully, it got here before everything blew up. When it arrived I had only 1 GB of space left — everything was sooooo slow I was growing moss on my mouse. But, once I got it plugged in and moved all the photos and electronic books to […]
I get spam. I get lots of spam. Spam, spam, not beautiful spam. And it’s too bad because the real spam, the kind that comes in a can, isn’t bad. When I was a poor struggling student, I ate spam a lot (and not the script for the play either). I had spam sandwiches, spam […]
I’d thought about writing something on this topic, but hadn’t really figured out what I wanted to say, when I found this article on Numbers on Teen Pregnancy as a Freakonomics NY Times Opinion piece (here’s the Freakonomincs NY Times blog). I found the statistics on teen pregnancies interesting: High teen pregnancy rates remain a […]
Not much to say. The zines went live yesterday. So if you go to SFRevu or Gumshoe Review, you’ll find the new September issues are now up and live. This month SFRevu has an interview with Joe Abercrombie, the author of The Last Argument of Kings. In Gumshoe, we’ve got an interview with Sheila Lowe, […]
Busy as bees all weekend. There’s the zines to get out and Ern (the senior partner in the zines) had his birthday party at our house. So, with 16 people coming for a BBQ dinner, Hyperion and I really had to clean the house and the yard. Ern came out a couple of times to […]
It’s been a busy month and we’re quickly approaching the end; and that means getting the publications up and ready to go live on September 1st. “What publications,” you ask? Why SFRevu and Gumshoe Review. Time usually seems to compress near the end of the month, but it seems like I had even less time […]