This evening, or rather, this morning, I completed another first draft of a story. Yahoo! And it’s only about 5000 words! Double-yahoo! I mentioned it earlier on this blog, the one about the foreign NGO development worker youth in post-war Colorado, jaunting around the countryside on a stupid wager and getting an experience neither of them bargained for. The story in fact ended up integrating something from a piece of tech that I explored in a very different story that I wasn’t 100% happy with, even in revision, “Upgraded Phrase List for Mil-Spec iTrans Phrase Translation Unit, Version 5.2.07”. (I’m …
Month: October 2006
Animal Art
I’m currently reading Jared Diamond’s book The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal and I’m at the bit where he’s trying to find roots for human arts in animal art, which got me curious enough to look around online: Here’s a gallery of art by Koko and Michael, two apes. Mulatta records has put out an album of recordings of a Thai Elephant Orchestra, including samples. This essay-page is the only place online that I could find where any of the line-drawings of Siri the elephant were on display. There’s a book on her art out …
Missile Gap
This sounds like a fun book indeed, even if it is just a 100-page novella. I may try to pick up One Million AD instead, though, and get more stories for the price of one.
The Eggman Says Kids Were “Egging the Congressman On
Oh, I see. Drudge says that the kids were egging on the pedophile Congressman. Well, he is a Republican, so it must be the kids’ fault. Excuse me while I go vomit.
North Korea Plans to Test Nuclear Weapon
Oh, greeeeeeeeat.