by CJ | Aug 12, 2012 | Journal
…hanging out with friends, trying to figure why the same printer that printed off a sample of Jane’s cover very well last time is screwing up the image this time. Patricia and Mike Briggs (and Sparky) [if you haven’t read Patricia Briggs you should]...
by CJ | Aug 10, 2012 | Journal
Volume 1. Go make it a bestseller. That would be nice. 😉
by CJ | Aug 10, 2012 | Journal
PERSEID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Worldwide observers are now reporting more than 30 Perseids per hour, a number that could triple during the weekend when Earth reaches the...
by CJ | Aug 7, 2012 | Journal
I’ve limped along since May or June on this book. It flew at first. Then—I swear it was two sentences. Break. Two sentences. Break. Erase two sentences. Write three. Break. That has been the progress for two months. Enough to make a writer tear her hair...
by CJ | Aug 7, 2012 | Journal
I’ve limped along since May or June on this book. It flew at first. Then—I swear it was two sentences. Break. Two sentences. Break. Erase two sentences. Write three. Break. That has been the progress for two months. Enough to make a writer tear her hair...
by CJ | Aug 7, 2012 | Journal
…as Facebook attempts to play the same shell game with Wall Street as it does with its customers. I think this is very well stated. Facebook shell game not the best idea Here’s a more technical link, but it has information for laymen as well: reasons for...
by CJ | Aug 7, 2012 | Journal
…as Facebook attempts to play the same shell game with Wall Street as it does with its customers. I think this is very well stated. Facebook shell game not the best idea Here’s a more technical link, but it has information for laymen as well: reasons for...
by CJ | Aug 5, 2012 | Journal
If you have any anti-science types in your circle and they start yattering about sending ‘all that money to Mars’ remind them of the fact a crushed car bale—is around $250 a ton if it were pure steel. With plastics, not so much. That’s ALL we...
by CJ | Aug 4, 2012 | Journal
Olympic muscle tape You may have seen striped or patterned athletes in the Games. Called Kinesio tape, it promises to relieve muscle pain and strain. Some swear by it. Some don’t. I got some sports tape, sort of a tape-on elastic bandage after a shoulder injury,...
by CJ | Aug 3, 2012 | Journal
After Facebook’s latest shenanigans, the Timeline stuff, and the possibility that they may ‘lock’ access to past files, so that, for instance, if you loaded a picture in 2011, you might not be able to remove it—a situation hinted at in the...
by CJ | Aug 3, 2012 | Journal
supernova shines again That’s really traveling, that energy…. I don’t know if you’ve been catching How the Universe Works on the Discovery networks, but it’s really one of the best in a long time.
by CJ | Aug 3, 2012 | Journal
Gluten-free? Wheat is one of the most ‘altered’ food crops since ancient times…so hybridization is nothing new, but this is an interesting study, and points out one of the problems with genetic alteration (in this case, not genetic alteration in the...
