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Wave Without A Shore

here It's getting stranger out there...and just wait til Amazon snaps it up.

This is not the biggest leak that has ever hit the oceans: the biggest was when Saddam Hussein sabotaged the Kuwaiti oil field. And there was a massive leak in Mexican waters, there was the Exxon Valdez, and there is, almost continually, the abysmal mess in Nigeria,...

We're still getting errors like "Rendering of template gallery-wp-eStore.php failed" ---we do know about that one: thank you, Ed. That's occurring on my stuff, Jane's, and Lynn's. But if others of you have time today, kind of randomly prowl Closed Circle and look...

We're in for a solar storm. Should arrive on Aug 3rd, roughly, with possibility for auroral display for those of you in the right latitudes; and I hope the astronauts on the space station get their repair done ASAP and get battened down safely.

lawsuit There is SO much oddness going on you can't swat it all...

There's always both regret and relief when a con is over---a delight to see friends I don't see at any other time; but it's tiring. Particularly tiring when the air conditioning isn't up to snuff, and it's August in Spokane: as chronicled frequently in recent posts, I...

Michael Whelan Michael's an old friend---and we had some time to hang out. Our panel together was "Starting Out Together", which we did---my first novel and one of his first covers. We helped each other out---me with what proved a popular series, and him, providing a...

Since it's local and only 5 minutes from our house, we have the luxury of coming and going at need. Guests of honor are Tanya Huff and Michael Whelan. Michael and Audrey and Jane and I are old friends, and their transport is a couple of nice friends of theirs from the...

Since it's local and only 5 minutes from our house, we have the luxury of coming and going at need. Guests of honor are Tanya Huff and Michael Whelan. Michael and Audrey and Jane and I are old friends, and their transport is a couple of nice friends of theirs from the...

....so we have been incommunicado for hours! Back on now!

The Dell Streak. I can see, if you're a night watchman, or if you have some other job that means you have long wait-times, there may be some desire to watch a movie designed for the biggest possible telly on a handheld screen instead... Personally I consider a movie a...