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July 2, 2012
Angels & Demons Blog Hop Winners!
The winner of the $25.00 Amazon gift card on my blog was “Rose”!
The Grand Prize Winners for the overall blog hop were as follows:
Kindle Touch Winner: from I Smell Sheep: Stephanie Huff
Amazon $60 Gift Card Winner: from Dani Harper’s Blog: Drake
Thank you, everyone, for stopping by, and for the fun comments. I have a lot of new-to-me authors to read now, thanks to the suggestions. Hope your summer is going well!
July 1, 2012
A Writer’s Day at Suits & Spooks LA
How on earth, you may ask, did I end up at an event entitled Suits & Spooks? Being neither….
I do go to plenty of conferences for the day job but they’re all about science and Mars Rovers and process improvements. I go to conferences as an author too, of course, and learn to hone my skills, improve the plotting and heighten the tension…but the purpose of Suits & Spooks per their website is “to bring members from…the U.S. Intelligence Community together with innovative thinkers from a wide vari...
June 30, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday – SF Adventure Continues
Going back to my SFR , STILL out on submission, set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unexpectedly shows...
June 27, 2012
Angels & Demons Blog Hop + Giveaway! Over 100 Authors Participating!
ONE Grand Prize Winner gets a Kindle Touch & ONE winner gets a $60 Amazon or Barnes&Noble Gift Card. The organizers of Angels & Demons Blog Hop will be choosing the overall winner from the comments on ALL the blogs involved. Meaning the readers can comment on each blog (all 103) and be entered 103 times. The organizers would appreciate your including your e mail address when you comment (won’t be published of course).
So, do you believe in angels? In demons? Do you have a favorite angel or dem...
June 26, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy – Please Close the Refrigerator Door!
You’re letting all the pingpong balls out! At least that’s what we say in our household, based on a VERY old Southern California Edison TV commercial where – you guessed it – someone left the door open on their fridge and thousands of pingpong balls (aka the cold air) fell out everywhere.
My autistic spectrum grandson is very cavalier about closing the refrigerator door…but the Japanese have solved the problem! Look at this set of adorable “talking fridge pets,” who will scold you if you leave...
June 24, 2012
Board Games of 5000 Years Ago
The Ancient Egyptians worked hard, but also loved to play. They had many leisure pastimes, with board games high on their list. One of the most famous games is senet, invented over 5000 years ago. Played with two sets of pawns, some kind of dice and a board with thirty holes, the game was symbolic of the journey of the dead. A player who did really well at this game was considered to be under the protection of a major god or goddess. We don’t know the actual rules any longer, although various...
June 23, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday – More Science Fiction Adventure
Going back to my SFR , STILL out on submission now, set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unexpectedly s...
June 21, 2012
Friday Favorite Flicks – Ice Pirates and Krull
Occasionally on Friday I like to talk about favorite old movies of the VS household. Two of our all-time favorites are Ice Pirates and Krull, both examples of what passed for science fiction in the 1980’s. We never saw them in the theaters, only on video and wore out multiple copies of each. (Note to all: we love both movies so no snark from us! SPOILERS maybe LOL.) Of course there were some other terrific SF movies in the ‘80’s, like my all-time favorite Aliens…
But back to Ice Pirates. Start...
June 19, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy – Mars Rovers
I’m a fan of Mars rovers and some family members just built me one from Legos:
This is a model of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER), two of which are trundling around up on Mars. (Well actually one is done rolling but the other, named Opportunity, is still exploring.)
And here are life size models of all three rovers, Pathfinder, MER and MSL (on its way to Mars now), as seen at the Jet Propulsion Lab:
I don’t really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
Sig...
June 17, 2012
3000 Years Later We Know His Work By His Heiroglyphic Handwriting
How’s your cursive? 3000 years from now, will archaeologists of the future know your works by your handwriting? At least one man from ancient Egyptian history has that honor, although he wasn’t a pharaoh.
Known as “Scribe of the Tomb,” his name was Amennakhte, Son of Ipuy, and 30 centuries after he lived in Ancient Egypt, archaeologists recognize his handwriting with enough certainty to declare him the creator of various documents and maps. Apparently his hieroglyphic cursive style is so disti...
