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NaNoWriMo
Doing it again this year. If I keep this up for another decade I might just produce something saleable. :)This year I'm doing something a little different. I'm attempting to rewrite and finish a story...
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Mandelbrot Set - AK Dewdney's article in Scientific American 1985
In 1985 I received my latest issue of Scientific American (I'd been buying it every month since I was about 12 years old, back in the early '60s). I was excited by the beautiful image on the cover that...
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Banana Pi
Yay! My Banana Pi computer arrived today, just one week after ordering it online. Very cool. It cost me just AU$ 69.02. The shipping from China was free.It's like the famous Raspberry Pi (which I also...
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Noah and the flood
It's hard to understand why the Christians would promote and make a film about the biblical story of Noah and the flood. It seems to me it should be as much of an embarrassment to them as the creepy...
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my book "flying"
A few days ago I had some ideas to expand a couple of paragraphs in a particular part of my story flying. Not being able to remember exactly where the section was where I wanted to insert it I started...
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first color map of Ceres
NASA has released a map-style image of the surface of the planetoid Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. The image was compiled from pictures taken by the highly successful Dawn robotic...
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fossil fuels, and reducing the need
Almost every technology we have relies upon fossil fuels. We need to work out ways to break that chain of dependency. I don't count using oil to make plastics as an example of a bad thing, but I do see...
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posting a recent short story here because the net is misbehaving
Petby Miriam EnglishPet pointed to a light streaking across the night sky. "Look! A meteor." She didn't actually use the word "meteor" because she had lost her real parents when she was very young and...
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vertigo
Well, this is perfectly horrible. I woke from a nap today with awful vertigo. As I get very bad motion sickness when my vision of out of sync with my inner ear's motion sensors this is especially...
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my RepRap Prusa i3 3d Printer - unboxing
A week ago I bought a RepRap Prusa i3 3D printer kit online from Sunhokey for AUS$360 via PayPal (free shipping). It has already arrived! Just 7 days between order and arrival from China to Queensland...
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writing
This November I decided to write a story I'd mapped out in a fair bit of detail some time back about a young woman who is aspie (has Asperger's syndrome -- that is, she's a high-functioning autistic)....
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Recuperate
I've written a new short story. It's only about three and a half pages long, so... very short story. I enjoyed writing it -- a fun idea, I think.Let me know what you think of...
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Radiolab talks and analysing my stories
Been a while since I blogged here. I should do so more often.It has been my habit for years to eat my meals while listening to a talk, or watching a documentary, or watching a piece of fiction. Lately...
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Kenilworth Community Information Centre
Kenilworth Community Information Centrehttps://www.facebook.com/Kenilworth-Community-Information-Centre-1419018014791094/I've been helping out a bit with getting their facebook page organised.This link...
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Linux is 25 years old
Linus back in the dayLinux was named after him and is pronounced LIN-ucks.Here is Linus on pronunciation.The year was 1991, in August, on the 25th day, young computer student Linus Torvalds first...
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Wacom graphics tablet is go!!!
Yay!!!! After many months of trying to get my Wacom graphics tablet working with this damn computer I have finally done it!First task now: to paint a cover for my novel Insurance.(Crossposted from...
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How to colonise Mars
Elon Musk recently gave a fascinating talk on how to go to mars and maintain a self-sustaining civilisation there.(Crossposted from http://miriam-e.dreamwidth.org/331260.html at my Dreamwidth account....
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happy stories?
Help!Does anybody know of a story (film, book, short story) that is entirely uplifting? That is, one that has no bad people, no trials and tribulations, no obstacles the main character has to overcome...
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NaNoWriMo
Doing it again this year. If I keep this up for another decade I might just produce something saleable. :)This year I'm doing something a little different. I'm attempting to rewrite and finish a story...
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Mandelbrot Set - AK Dewdney's article in Scientific American 1985
In 1985 I received my latest issue of Scientific American (I'd been buying it every month since I was about 12 years old, back in the early '60s). I was excited by the beautiful image on the cover that...
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