September 2009 archive

Filed: My 'Fiction Writing' Provisional Patent!

That's right! I'm officially "patent pending." Coming soon to a patent office near you:
"Method and Apparatus for Creating a Work of Fiction with the Aid of a Computing Device"
That's the name my patent attorney came up with. Please, before you start squawking about ridiculous software patents, let me explain. I'm not a fan of software [...]

The strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet...

I'm reading H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. In the early going, it appears to have aged well. For a 111-year-old book, it still reads like good science fiction to me.
Not long after The Time Traveler's arrival in the year 802,701 A.D.:

'I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, [...]

Santorini Revisited

Cliff homes of Oia, Santorini, in Greece, by Stacy Cashman at RamblingTraveler.com. Generously shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Stacy first visited the island of Santorini about three years ago, and I posted a couple of her photos of Santorini cliff dwellings here (also freely shared!). That post is one of my top two [...]

Police guitarist Andy Summers demonstrates Thomas Jefferson's point

After reading Sting's memoir recently, which ends just as he is starting to find success with The Police, I read Andy Summers's One Train Later: A Memoir, mostly wanting to learn more about The Police. From his younger years, there was this passage which made me think of the popular Thomas Jefferson quote about ideas [...]

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