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Posting again at last
Jan. 21st, 2009 12:30 pmLess swamped by work = a little free time.
Updates:
Working on Z's armor over break gave me enough practice with making hardened leather armor so that I'm getting fairly decent with it. I made a new gorget that seems to fit well and look good (dark brown leather with copper rivets). I'll try it out at meeting tonight.
Gregor's World isn't being submitted to Strange Horizons just yet. X and Z gave me some very useful feedback which will really strengthen the story but which means a major rewrite. I'm a couple of pages into the rewrite and I think I'll like the changes.
I've been reading an anthology of stories taken from Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. I may object to some of Card's views but the stories in the anthology are pretty good. Some of the stories from the Medicine Show are available free from their web site.
Scientific evidence is mounting (see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120144508.htm), it appears that hobbits are a separate species, not diminuitive humans.
Another sign of the Appocalypse - American-style suburbs are springing up in Latin America, North Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe ( www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/26/architects-create-america_n_153616.html ). Now the affluent in the third world can have their own McMansions in developments that look like they were teleported fron Southern California. (I guess their taste isn't any better than ours).
That's it for now.
Updates:
Working on Z's armor over break gave me enough practice with making hardened leather armor so that I'm getting fairly decent with it. I made a new gorget that seems to fit well and look good (dark brown leather with copper rivets). I'll try it out at meeting tonight.
Gregor's World isn't being submitted to Strange Horizons just yet. X and Z gave me some very useful feedback which will really strengthen the story but which means a major rewrite. I'm a couple of pages into the rewrite and I think I'll like the changes.
I've been reading an anthology of stories taken from Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. I may object to some of Card's views but the stories in the anthology are pretty good. Some of the stories from the Medicine Show are available free from their web site.
Scientific evidence is mounting (see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120144508.htm), it appears that hobbits are a separate species, not diminuitive humans.
Another sign of the Appocalypse - American-style suburbs are springing up in Latin America, North Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe ( www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/26/architects-create-america_n_153616.html ). Now the affluent in the third world can have their own McMansions in developments that look like they were teleported fron Southern California. (I guess their taste isn't any better than ours).
That's it for now.
