Archive for September, 2004
Food Day Off
September 30th 2004 at 4:08 pm
So I’m doing this thing where I’m being very strict and controlling of my diet, which is cool, because I’ve gotten some results without heavy weighlifting, which I don’t have time to do right now (not until after the rewrite). I let myself have one ’splurge/binge’ day every two weeks, and today I picked as [...]
SpaceShipOne
September 29th 2004 at 11:58 am
SpaceShipOne made a successful flight! I watched it live on CNN, and they had some excellent cameras tracking it. Unofficially it reached 330,000 (62.5 miles) feet.
It dropped from the carrier plane, then boosted out, and went up, and during that part of the flight started to barrel roll, like some 20-30 times. My heart was [...]
Alpha Workshop For Teens
September 28th 2004 at 6:01 pm
I’ve been waiting to see a formal announcement on their webpage, and it’s up at the Alpha webpage now, but I’m going to be one of their resident authors at this 9 day workshop in Pittsburgh for young writers, aged 14-19.
Here are the details:
The ALPHA SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers (ages 14 – 19) will [...]
New Space Race
September 27th 2004 at 2:13 pm
New $50 Million Prize for Private Orbiting Spacecraft: “While a team of aerospace engineers takes aim this week on the $10 million Ansari X Prize competition for privately developed suborbital spaceflight, a Nevada millionaire is planning an even loftier contest.
Robert Bigelow, chief of Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace, is apparently setting higher goals for private spaceflight [...]
What The Woof?
September 27th 2004 at 8:42 am
New Zealand News – World – Abandoned boy said to have been raised by a dog:
A Mowgli-like wild boy who appears to have been raised by a dog since he was three months old has been discovered living in a remote part of Siberia seven years after he was abandoned by his parents.
Today’s boy [...]
Fantastic?
September 24th 2004 at 8:54 am
Michael Chiklis as The Thing. That’s pretty good. Jessica Alba as The Invisible Woman (or at least the nearly invisible body suit), also good casting. I can buy it.
I’ve never heard of the other two actors. Should I be worried about what they’ll be doing to the Fantastic Four? I don’t know. I’m glad Chicklis [...]
Freeipods.com
September 24th 2004 at 8:51 am
When someone first showed me the freeipods.com site and tried to get me to join, I laughed and said ‘it’s a pyramid scheme, it’s going to collapse soon unless you’re a very early adopter. And your email will be sold to spammers.’
Now Forbes.com and Wired have run stories confirming this, saying that the iPods are [...]
Things Are Getting Better…
September 23rd 2004 at 3:00 pm
Karl Schroeder has an interesting excerpt up from a report on the number of armed conflicts and poverty and lack of drinking water in the world.
Chin up, things are getting better:
The studies’ findings are fascinating. Our politicians (and the media) are constantly reminding us about the terrible state that the world is in; but [...]
Why Po-Co SF?
September 22nd 2004 at 2:38 pm
Why do I write about the 3rd world and SF, how does my love of all things gadget like mesh with my interest in the ‘developing world?’
People in articles like this are starting to get the point…
“Tech’s Future” focusing on technology in the developing world. The piece leads with the following: “With affluent markets maturing, [...]
