Archive for January, 2012
The ill-fated Lady Be Good
January 31st 2012 at 12:02 pm
I was doing some quick referencing digging about how long people survive in the desert without water when I came across the story of the ill-fated Lady Be Good, a US bomber that went down in Libya during WWII. No happy ending to this tale, but I’ve always been transfixed by stories of missing planes [...]
Go Halo Go!
January 30th 2012 at 10:05 am
If you’ve got little ones my twins’ age, you’ve probably watched your fair share of Dora, or Go Diego Go. If you’ve done that and played Halo, then you might, possibly, find this as hilarious as I did: (props to whoever in my wife’s Spanish class asked her to pass the link on to me)
Coca Cola in your body
January 29th 2012 at 9:24 am
I stopped drinking Coca Cola in high school when I was working on a small freight ship. I’d have to de-rust it. To do that, I would take a phosphoric acid solution and put it in a windex bottle, and then walk around the metal ship and spray rust spots with it. It was usually [...]
Cult Pop interview
January 29th 2012 at 1:23 am
Jim Hall at CultPop, a Detroit-area TV show, has always been nice and taken the time to interview me over the years when I have a new book about to drop, and he hunted me down while I was at Confusion. We did a long interview about my new book, new ways to publish, and [...]
Responsive Comics
January 28th 2012 at 8:04 pm
Pablo Defendini used the opening pages of Sly Mongoose to do a quick test of his idea of responsive comics design for browsers/tablets/phones. Boing Boing recently picked up his presentation and featured it. Here’s the very cool YouTube embed:
New planting zone map reflects global warming’s impact on where things can be planted
January 27th 2012 at 2:37 pm
When I was adding plants to my garden this year I found a fascinating fact that some of the plants that used to not be able to be planted in my zone were now being recommended for it. The US Dept. of Agriculture has caught up, and is changing the planting zones map. This will [...]
US R&D map shows country falling behind
January 27th 2012 at 2:33 pm
A presentation that comes with a map, via Neil Degrasse Tyson, that looks at the shocking change in US science research over the last 10 years:
Halo Helljumper Series based on my short story Dirt Nearly Ready To Drop
January 26th 2012 at 5:04 pm
So the Halo Helljumper webisode series is going to go live sometime today, and the miniseries is basically built around my novella Dirt from Halo: Evolutions. As you can imagine I can’t wait to see the first episode online. But as the last message on Facebook, they’re still uploading the first episode to the video [...]
Private space aims for around the moon trip
January 25th 2012 at 3:34 pm
I’ve linked this before, but BoingBoing has a link to a more detailed description of the $150 million per ticket Space Adventures ride to the moon and back.
Epic Confusion was epic
January 23rd 2012 at 4:25 pm
This weekend I attended Confusion, an SF/F convention where I got to hang out with an insane number of cool people. I got the twins a room of their own, and they were very impressed. Thalia climbed right into her hotel bed (I watch big TV, dad?). I spent a great deal of time hanging [...]
