by CJ | Apr 27, 2012 | Journal
1) You know I turned Protector in yesterday. 2) We have audiobook contracts for Cyteen, Downbelow Station, Foreigner, and Chanur with audible.com. If you buy from these links, I get a dollar. I’ll put them in the first comment box, because the program strips...
by CJ | Apr 26, 2012 | Journal
…and yes, Protector has flown to NYC…. In the real old days, you took your carbon copy and put it in a safe place, found a stout box for your 20 lb bond typescript, [heavier with the weight of 3 bottles of dried correction fluid] and went to the post...
by CJ | Apr 24, 2012 | Journal
Mariners’ game. It wasn’t the Mariners’ best weekend. The next day they were the losing team of a Chisox ‘perfect game.’ Bummer! We ate far, far too much junk food. And while we were gone, local temperatures had soared to 81, and...
by CJ | Apr 20, 2012 | Journal
…Lynn Abbey’s ‘Time’ books are up—new stuff, likely you’ve never seen before—Go see!
by CJ | Apr 18, 2012 | Journal
Babsidi—Ilisidi’s mecheita—male, or female?
by CJ | Apr 16, 2012 | Journal
Re color being in the eye of the beholder: definitely. That’s indeed the point…that I think the road to our color-perception began in the sea, at depth, very, very early. That it was somewhat accidental—caused by thin-skinned creatures who have...
by CJ | Apr 15, 2012 | Journal
I just got to thinking—I love watching The Universe, How the Earth Was Made, etc…and I remember arguing with Don Wollheim about the origin of flowers and colors (two separate debates, actually.) Today I’m thinking about color, and the tendency of...
by CJ | Apr 14, 2012 | Journal
Zojirushi. http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NS-ZCC10-Cooker-Warmer-Premium/dp/B00007J5U7/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1334447880&sr=1-1 This never fails. Brown rice, sweet rice, white rice, mixed rice, sticky rice—perfect. You can cook a...
by CJ | Apr 13, 2012 | Journal
I don’t do this when I’m traveling, but at home, with access to meds, just occasionally… Recipe: Taste of Thai Red Curry Paste packet, Taste of Thai light Coconut Milk… 5 robust red potatoes. Pkg chicken strips, frozen is ok. Olive oil in pan,...
by CJ | Apr 12, 2012 | Journal
This one owes us nothing, but it’s the desktop catchall in the net—we built this one from scratch, as I recall, and it’s got multiple disks and a lot of really outmoded software. It runs Win7 but it’s far from fast…and Jane and I took the...
