I'm a rather landlocked seafarer living up here in Interior Alaska. Although I've sometimes entertained notions of sailing a Viking ship up the Chena River, for the most part I must remain content to ruminate and regurgitate early childhood memories of sailing on the San Francisco Bay. Certain things get permanently embedded in one's cerebral cortex, and there isn't much you can do ...
It would be nice if you could actually plan your writing schedule. It seems that writing assignments come in clumps and clusters....everything seems to happen at once. While Steel Stonehenge, the "prequel" to Plasma Dreams is out there in the Universe on its latest round of "ignorings" I've been slavishly attempting to finish three prosaic pieces all at once. The ...
My writing of late has taken a less literary, but more pragmatic bent. The timing is certainly not my choice, but I couldn't turn down these projects. They are great for my resume, if nothing else.Please try to curb your excitement, but I've been deeply involved in the rewriting and revision of the FCC General Radio Operator's License (GROL) manual, by the W5YI Group. Much of this material ...
Nearest Book MemeGrab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 45. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence (with attribution) along with these instructions to your own blog, and leave a comment below so I'll know whose blogs to come visit! Well, I just happened to have a copy of Plasma Dreams on my desk. Since page starts in the middle of a sentence, I actually have two possible ...
I just finished A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes episode. (I have obligated myself to finish the entire body of Sherlock Holmes....something every literate American is supposed to have done, but never actually has. I must confess I have several, to be obfuscatory, "discontinuities" in my classic literary repertoire, but I am making a sincere, conscious effort to ...
This week I've been working in the electronics lab on a telemetry project. At the heart of this little telemetry receiver is a device called an FV (Frequency to Voltage) converter.
