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January 11, 2010
Rocket: E-Book Version Soon
December 21, 2009
Time Travel Trip: Part Two
Since I can't travel through time, I traveled to New Mexico instead - all to do research for my new time travel book. Here's how it went...
On July 16, 1945 the first atomic bomb - nicknamed the gadget - was detonated in New Mexico at the Trinity Site, which is located within the military-run White Sands Missile Range. In 1975 the area was declared a national historic landmark and Trinity Site is now open to the public two days a year.
The primary landmark is ground zero, where a...
December 3, 2009
Time Travel Trip: Part One
Since I can't travel through time, I traveled to New Mexico instead - all to do research for my new time travel book. Here's how it went...
Off of Highway 60 in New Mexico, 50 miles west of the city of Socorro is the Very Large Array (driving with my father we came from direction of Arizona, which I mention only because as you travel east on the 60 you pass through a town called Pie Town, which does in fact serve pies). The VLA is a radio astronomy telescope operated by the National Radio...
November 18, 2009
Canal Monster: At Large
The above video shows what some residents of Madeira Beach, Florida are claiming is a 30-foot long creature that's roaming their canals. According to Russ Sittlow, who has been videotaping the mystery animal: "It's something strange. It's something I've never seen in salt water." Sittlow concedes it might be a snake, "or a serpent-like thing that looks like a snake," although wildlife officials who have viewed the footage seem to think it's a manatee. Either way, it wouldn't last a minute in ...
November 9, 2009
Six-Minute Story: The Website
I recently got an email from the creator of a very cool website: Sixminutestory.com. I've written a couple of six minute stories (I cannot lie: it's mostly to fill space), although Sixminutestory.com takes the concept to a whole other level - giving everyone a chance to post their own quick stories in a forum where the most popular ones will rise to the top. Definitely worth checking out...
November 1, 2009
Canal News: A Less Filthy Future
Updates on the Gowanus Canal, the real life inspiration behind The Canal.
Change is afoot at the Gowanus Canal - the waterways future is being argued over by the EPA, who wants to designate the canal a Superfund site and begin returning it to a nontoxic state, and the city of NY and real estate interests who want to develop the area but argue that Superfund status would be the kiss of death as far as their development plans are concerned (they have proposed their own alternate clean up plan). ...
October 16, 2009
Kindle Sale: The Canal: .99 Cents
The Kindle version of The Canal is just .99 cents through October!
October 8, 2009
Canal News: Building A Better Pump
Updates on the Gowanus Canal, the real life inspiration behind The Canal.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has an interesting article about the Gowanus Canal's flushing tunnel pump (which is briefly mentioned in the book), which is slated to get an upgrade at the end of this year. Because the Gowanus has little natural current, the flushing tunnel was built to draw in fresh water from the nearby Buttermilk Channel.
As the article points out, the tunnel - which was built in 1911 - was out of operation f...
Canal News: A Better Pump
Updates on the Gowanus Canal, the real life inspiration behind The Canal.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has an interesting article about the Gowanus Canal's flushing tunnel pump (which is briefly mentioned in the book), which is slated to get an upgrade at the end of this year. Because the Gowanus has little natural current, the flushing tunnel was built to draw in fresh water from the nearby Buttermilk Channel.
As the article points out, the tunnel - which was built in 1911 - was out of operation f...
Gowanus News: A Better Pump
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has an interesting article about the Gowanus Canal's flushing tunnel pump, which is slated to get an upgrade at the end of the year. Because the Gowanus has little natural current, the flushing tunnel was built to draw in fresh water from the nearby Buttermilk Channel.
As the article points out, the tunnel - which was built in 1911 - was out of operation from the 60's until 1999. Although I don't specifically state it in The Canal, the book is meant to take place in...
