Daily Archives: May 3, 2010
And Five Minutes After the Rainstorm
Posted on May 3, 2010 10 Comments
Sunset on Mars. If Mars had, you know. Trees.
Surprise Shower
Posted on May 3, 2010 19 Comments
See this picture? Pretty much ten minutes earlier, nothing but blue sky. The Midwest. Weather wise, it’s a little wacky. But as the girls will tell you, the wind was fun: At least until the wall of rain hit. But by then we were all inside. Except the dog, whose chose that moment to go […]
Input This
Posted on May 3, 2010 40 Comments
As part of the continual and obsessive updating about my office, please see for your own pleasure the new input devices: A Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000, which takes care of my need for keys that are not so sticky and clunky, and a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch tablet, which I am testing as […]
The Big Idea: Jeri Smith-Ready
Posted on May 3, 2010 11 Comments
What does astronomy — a field full of logic, physics and (in reference to human time spans) permanence — have to do with the metaphysical and supernatural nature of ghosts? In Shade, the new YA novel by Jeri Smith-Ready, quite a lot, including the need, from a writing point of view, to frame the supernatural […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying