moving any file into your Kindle or other device

by | Feb 3, 2011 | Journal

People have asked if Seeking North can be gotten onto a Kindle. Just treat your Kindle or other device as a flash drive: first download a file (swipe it to your notepad), then convert it via your word processor to pdf, then use the USB cord to transfer the pdf, as I...

planets all over the place…kepler goes hunting.

by | Feb 2, 2011 | Journal

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2045835,00.html?hpt=T2 The ‘new’ wrinkle in the search for exoplanets is that, far from pooh-poohing supergiant planets as ‘no likely life’, discoveries in our own solar system, including our own...

bane of our lives—16" of 3" cast iron drain pipe…

by | Feb 1, 2011 | Journal

jutting sideways mid-corner from its origin and passing the sink drain on the new sink. This would be solvable, except the garbage disposal on the other side of the sink has a connector headed for the same drain. Now imagine: drain A needs a p-trap, one of those...

bane of our lives—16″ of 3″ cast iron drain pipe…

by | Feb 1, 2011 | Journal

jutting sideways mid-corner from its origin and passing the sink drain on the new sink. This would be solvable, except the garbage disposal on the other side of the sink has a connector headed for the same drain. Now imagine: drain A needs a p-trap, one of those...

Heavy work this weekend: literally

by | Jan 29, 2011 | Journal

I got the finished text of Intruder ready to send to my agent, who will transmit it to DAW. I have already transmitted the galleys of Betrayer. We….are getting a new kitchen countertop. Ours had lost its finish, and is white, which means Jane has scrubbed every...

And still more checking…

by | Jan 25, 2011 | Journal

Rather than manage the whole heavy manuscript of Intruder, with spilling pages and markup, this time Jane loaded it onto the Kindle, the same way we just did the galleys. She read it, installed notes, and now I’m reading it on the Kindle, and diving aside to the...

Betelgeuse may be imploding.

by | Jan 21, 2011 | Journal

It’s showing loss of mass. It could flare up to give us a display. No danger to Earth: it’s quite far from us. But, hey, talk about life imitating art—see the geologic history of the Seeking North scenario.