Archive for November, 2004
Shooting Comets
November 28th 2004 at 11:07 pm
What’s cooler than hitting a comet with a slug of copper the size of a bathtub to see what happens next?
The high-speed impact will wallop the pickle-shaped comet with energy equivalent to 4.8 tons of TNT, said Michael A’Hearn, a University of Maryland astronomer and principal investigator on the $311 million mission.
Nobody’s sure […]
Market Study for Space Exploration
November 27th 2004 at 5:26 pm
Dittmar released their Market Study for Space Exploration:
Interest and excitement about the Vision for Space Exploration is strong for near-term aspects of the plan (65% of Americans responded positively) and for returning to the Moon. This is not true for plans to send humans to Mars, which is seen as involving much more risk (only […]
DaVinci Wildfire
November 27th 2004 at 5:24 pm
Brian Feeney of the other suborbital spacecraft Wildfire is still planning to launch and talks about how miniscule the cost of his program was compared to a government space program.
Fish Merchant Available In Audio Form
November 24th 2004 at 4:47 pm
Telltale Weekly now has Fish Merchant available for $1 in a variety of audio formats… Sorry it’s been silent here, but I just finished grading papers and catching up on stuff gone lax from being sick. And spent some time lounging around with Emily (she’d gotten Triump The Insult Dog on DVD from […]
New York Recapped (with pics!)
November 18th 2004 at 3:44 pm
Well, it seems like forever ago, but New York was great fun and I’m glad I went out. I flew in late Thursday night on a new discount airline called Spirit and took a cab out from the airport to Grand Central. I ran into Dave Kirtley who’d just gotten out of a writer’s meeting, […]
Anda…
November 18th 2004 at 11:05 am
D. Murphy takes a look at Cory Doctorow’s latest story ‘Anda’ and compares it to the story Cory was riffing on, Ender’s Game for some interesting insights and praise…
Surprisingly (or perhaps not, considering the feeling I took from a closer reading of Card’s book), to this father it seems that Cory, the writer who does […]
Lesbians Raise Well Adjusted Kids
November 17th 2004 at 3:20 pm
A study of 12,000 Lesbians and their adopted kids shows no difference between 12,000 similarly adopted kids, and the most important factor in how well adjusted the kids were was how good their relationship with their parents was.
I’m not shocked.
But do spread this one. Gay couples should be able to raise kids and marry, just […]
Less Sore Throat Today
November 17th 2004 at 3:10 pm
I’m able to speak! And Swallow! The sore throat is dying down, and I have to give strong props to Tylenol Sore Throat Pain Reliever, Max. Strength. I got it a pharmacy, and it does good work…
Okay, today here are two political links:
One is a conversation by Mike Canfield a coworker that shook Mike up. […]
Sore Throat From Hell…
November 16th 2004 at 2:25 pm
At the end of this flu I came out with a sore throat, which usually occurs thanks to all the coughing and hacking a flu brings.
But this is the sore throat from hell, I’ve never had anything like this. Last night I actually broke down and had Emily take me to the emergency room where […]
Karl Schroeder’s Lady of the Mazes
November 15th 2004 at 9:18 am
Karl Schroeder just got the cover of his latest novel, and he has it up for all to see at his website. I saw it when I was at Tor and thought it was awesome, and I’m looking forward to reading it myself…
