Maybe my blog is haunted. I really thought I had posted yesterday (Friday) but there's no entry. Maybe somehow I went through all the steps but somehow managed to not hit the Publish Post button, but I thought I'd looked at the blog afterward. This means next month I'll have to really double check everything to make sure there's an entry for every day, and the time to start double checking everything is now.
Anyway, page 4 of "Sundancer" is sort of longish for one part, but I couldn't find a good place to break it around the middle.
Also, I went to Wordstock, a book fair at the Oregon Convention Center, to see Richard Dawkins. I'll be posting about that right after I get this posted and check that this entry really did post.
Sorry, but I've deleted most of this post because I'm interested in publishing "Sundancer" electronically and offering it for sale.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Sundancer - Page 3B
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Sundancer - Page 3A
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Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates
I first heard Sarah Vowell on the public radio program This American Life, a show I don't keep up with enough, partly because I mostly listen to the radio when I'm in the car. She has an unusual voice for radio, but it's a quickly acquired taste because she's very sharp, very witty, and has the ability to make some of the most amazing comparisons you're ever likely to hear. For a couple of good examples of that, take a look at the Squidoo lens I made - Sarah Vowell: The Voice of Violet Writes! Among her many accomplishments, she was the voice of Violet Parr in the animated movie The Incredibles.
Her latest book is The Wordy Shipmates. It's about the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. If anyone can make the Puritans interesting, it would be Sarah Vowell. The book just came out in paperback. She was on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight to promote it. While there, she took the time to recommend Keith Olbermann's hour-long Special Comment about health care. I recommend it as well.
If you're interested in reading Sarah Vowell's books, I'd appreciate it if you'd visit my Sarah Vowell Squidoo lens and click on one of my Amazon links. It doesn't cost you anything and I get a little commission from it.
Her latest book is The Wordy Shipmates. It's about the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. If anyone can make the Puritans interesting, it would be Sarah Vowell. The book just came out in paperback. She was on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight to promote it. While there, she took the time to recommend Keith Olbermann's hour-long Special Comment about health care. I recommend it as well.
If you're interested in reading Sarah Vowell's books, I'd appreciate it if you'd visit my Sarah Vowell Squidoo lens and click on one of my Amazon links. It doesn't cost you anything and I get a little commission from it.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sundancer - Page 2
Sorry, but I've deleted this post because I'm interested in publishing this story electronically and offering it for sale.
Go Ahead and Try It
I came across this little bit yesterday, but while I typed out the text from the handwritten note that was posted, I forgot to save the URL. So this isn't original with me:
"While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise cirles. Now, while doing this draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it."
The best I could do was have my foot go from side to side, which is a change in direction. It also works with the left hand and foot. But if you do opposite hands and feet, you can keep your foot going clockwise while the hand draws a 6.
Also, if you reverse directions - make the foot go counterclockwise while the hand draws clockwise, you get the same results. Or I should say, at least I do.
"While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise cirles. Now, while doing this draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it."
The best I could do was have my foot go from side to side, which is a change in direction. It also works with the left hand and foot. But if you do opposite hands and feet, you can keep your foot going clockwise while the hand draws a 6.
Also, if you reverse directions - make the foot go counterclockwise while the hand draws clockwise, you get the same results. Or I should say, at least I do.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Oldest Living Things
Back in 1954 my parents bought the World Book Encyclopedia. I began reading it like many people might read magazines or novels. We never got National Geographic, but often enough I was somewhere that had either current or old issues around. It was in one or the other that I read about the bristlecone pine, then thought to be the oldest living tree in the world. I would've thought the oldest living tree would be a giant sequoia, but the gnarled pine growing in the White Mountains of California southeast of Yosemite National Park on the Nevada border was older.
Earlier today I encountered the website of photographer Rachel Sussman. She has a portfolio of photographs of the world's oldest living things. It appears the bristlecone pine has a lot of competition. There's links to a location map which shows that the largest single living organism on the planet is in Oregon and a blog she adds to occasionally.
Earlier today I encountered the website of photographer Rachel Sussman. She has a portfolio of photographs of the world's oldest living things. It appears the bristlecone pine has a lot of competition. There's links to a location map which shows that the largest single living organism on the planet is in Oregon and a blog she adds to occasionally.
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