Michael Rubens's Blog, page 10
April 5, 2010
"Silly and sexy and secretly serious all at once."
Thank you, Book Nerd, for one of the I've ever received. It's what I hope people experience when they read the book. She's the co-proprietor of the Greenlight bookstore in Brooklyn, which I must stop by and visit.
February 25, 2010
February 23, 2010
I want to believe
Revolutionary fuel cell? Check. Grandiose claims? Check. Actual use by real companies? Check. Okay, I'll get a tiny weeny bit excited. Hat tip to Kottke for the link. Check out the Bloombox.
February 19, 2010
Thank you, Major Tom!
Really nice of Yrnameer by Tom Dell'Aringa, author of the webcomic Marooned. He was also kind enough to interview me, which should be up soon.
February 10, 2010
Come meet me! I'm friendly!
I'll be appearing as part of the Animal Farm reading series on Thursday, February 11, 8pm. Location: Happy Ending, 302 Broome street between Forsyth and Eldridge, NYC.
February 3, 2010
This will be news for Seth Grahame-Smith
My favorite summary of Yrnameer so far, courtesy of an eighth-grader who has listed three books on his blog that he intends to read for his humanities class:
"Sheriff of Yrnameer by Seth Grahame-Smith authour of pride and prejudice and zombies
this story is about space guy named joe. It is the future and earth has been reduced to a pile of rubble. Cole is a guy on the run from the evil guy and he faced many problems (a cargo hold full of freeze-dried orphans; a corporate training satellite...
January 26, 2010
Stephen Colbert & Yrnameer on Flavorpill
A nice mention on .
December 22, 2009
Wait, there are actual laws of physics involved?
A Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering weighs in on the physics of space battles.
December 20, 2009
What do I want for the holidays?
For the man who has everything but a case of sausage. Thank you, succeedblog.[image error]
December 18, 2009
Lava! Lava lava lava! Undersea lava!
Lovely footage of underwater volcano. Particularly enjoy the University of Washington spokesman ("Bright red molten lava! Explosions! Degassing!"), who appears to be speaking at some sort of trade show for cool-ass s***.
