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Interview with me about Kickstarter
Writer Emma Larkin, in prep for doing a Kickstarter of her own, interviewed me for her blog about Kickstarter and my own experiences:
I think a successful Kickstarter is a mixture of three factors: the cool factor (the intrinsic description of what the project is going to be), your audience factor (how many people ‘follow’ you, both as consumers of ( Read more... ) -
Yummy look at what HS could be…
Dan Geiser, and Jacki Wyse-Rhodes both pointed out this link to me of a vision for high speed rail in the US:
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What I’m working on right now: Hurricane Fever
As a result of the news announced over the last two days, people are asking what I’m working on right now and what is coming out when.
The YA novel I just sold to Tor is The Island in the Sky, and it is already written. Of course, I imagine Patrick Nielsen Hayden will have edit notes for me, so those will arrive at some point. The tentative pub ( Read more... ) -
Lunar rover image stabilized video
I don’t know why I keep re-watching this, but the image stabilized LRV bouncing around the moon is just entrancing, and gives you a much better look at what the astronauts were seeing there:
Mirrored from Tobias Buckell Online.
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Boeing has ideas on how to get to Mars
Nasa Spaceflight has a very in depth look at all the various options Boeing is providing NASA for possible Mars missions. It’s a good look at the technology on the table and in the near future around space access.
Taking into consideration the already-acknowledge difficulties of mounting a crewed mission to Mars - not the least of which being the ( Read more... ) -
Learning to be warm: synthetic undershirts
I’ve been blogging about my quest to remain warm in the winter. I talked about silk here, and wool here.
Wool has been scratchy, and silk the smoothest (and on a per weight basis, warmer). But yesterday the temperatures dropped down into single digits, negative with wind chill. There were drafts all throughout the house.
A week ago I acquired this ( Read more... ) -
Learning to be warm: wool undershirts
I talked about my quest to be warm over here in a last entry about silk undershirts:
Look, I grew up with a light shirt or no shirt at all around beaches. Constrictive clothing is annoying. Adding layers of it literally starts making me twitch.
Some people laugh like I’m making a joke, but I’m fairly straight forward about how just simply pissed ( Read more... ) -
Nice review of The Apocalypse Ocean
Over at BN Review, Paul Di Filippo looks at The Apocalypse Ocean… and likes what he sees:
The Apocalypse Ocean, I’m happy to say, starts off at a gallop, never slows down, and is completely up to the high caliber of its predecessors: a big, thought-provoking entertainment. It conducts a localized adventure with zip and zest, while also opening up ( Read more... ) -
Back, if a bit wobbly…
I’ve been down for the count almost all week long with a strain of whatever flu has been running wild. Yes, I did get my flu shots (every year, cardiologist thinks its a good idea as my heart does not like being dehydrated), but still succumbed.
Fortunately today I seem to up and out and looking at my email inbox in horror.
I watched a lot of silly ( Read more... )
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