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August 6, 2013
What Rhymes with “FREE”?
PERIGEE, that’s what. Haven’t done this in a while, but this is my last week on Kindle Select before I put it back up on Barnes&Noble, iTunes and Kobo. It’s been a long time since I tried goosing sales like this as KDP Free days don’t have the Oomph they used to, unless it pushes […]
July 31, 2013
Missing the Good Old Days
OK, so I’m not that old to remember when people treated air travel like it was a big deal. But doesn’t it all look cool now? Like so many other things, I sometimes feel like I was born too late. It would’ve been awesome to work for Pan Am back in the glory days. (Hat […]
July 24, 2013
Nothing to See Here
I’d hoped this New York Times story on warp drive research contained was actual news, but it’s just a rehash of stuff I linked to last fall so apparently there’s been no actual progress. That’s what happens when you let the NYT get your hopes up: Dr. White likened his experiments to the early stages […]
July 23, 2013
Idiocracy
It’s looking less like comedy and more like prophecy. Speaking of prophecy, Ayn Rand was on to something. Tell me, does this sound familiar? A few houses still stood within the skeleton of what had once been an industrial town. Everything that could move, had moved away; but some human beings had remained. The empty […]
Long Way Home
In case you missed it, last weekend we were all in a position for a rare family portrait from Saturn: ‘Merica. You’re welcome, world.
July 20, 2013
Tranquility
It would be neglecting my space-nerd cred if I failed to recognize a little event that happened 44 years ago today. It’s fitting that just this week, Jeff Bezos confirmed the Saturn V engines they recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic a few months ago are indeed from Apollo 11. No word on what […]
July 18, 2013
Quick Hits and Random Bits
Everyone’s favorite Walking Dead character, Simpson-ized: More fannish awesomeness found here.
July 15, 2013
Jaeger Bombs
Sorry to disappoint, but this isn’t a drinking thread. Via io9, the Pacific Rim website has a design-your-own-big-@$$-robot app that kills. And it didn’t take long for people to start bringing the funny: It’s easy to do, and fun for the whole family (if you’re twisted like mine, that is). Here’s my first crack at […]
July 4, 2013
Happy Fourth!
Saw this pic at Ace of Spades and couldn’t resist reposting: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature […]
July 2, 2013
Ahh, Civilization
So I’m on the first grocery run with Better Half in a couple of weeks and run into this on our way out: Pretty sure that Laughing Wimpy next to him already knew how my attempts to use the magic claw to apprehend Khan would turn out. 
