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Guest Blog #IAN
A very quick note. I have a guest blog up on But What Are They Eating about some of the foods my characters eat–and why those using esper talents must eat so much to avoid low blood sugar.
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Breakup Season
The usual four seasons, especially as defined by the equinoxes and solstices, don’t work very well for interior Alaska. Show cover is generally established by a month after the autumnal equinox, and...
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How do you Eat a Salad?
I like salads. I do not like trying to eat them neatly. Especially in a restaurant. Salads do not hold together, and holding together helps if you are trying to get a fork under something. Forks do a...
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Confederation Legal Structure
As I said last week, the Jarnian Confederation acts only to prevent Human-occupied planets from preying on each other or on other sentient species, or to provide emergency aid. But it needs some...
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Battery Woes
My computer screen lit up with a message Tuesday morning. Your Bluetooth mouse could quit at any time — change the batteries. Fine – I’ve finally figured out how to change the mouse batteries with the...
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It’s Award Time Again
I received two awards last week: The Kreativ Blogger from Chris Kelworth at the Kelworth Files, and the Liebster from Cindy Brown at Everyday Underwear. I’m a bit conflicted about these awards. On the...
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Printer Woes
When I learned to type, it was on a typewriter. Not a sleek little electric portable, or even a mechanical portable, but a big, clunky machine with keys that had to be pushed hard enough to flip up the...
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Could Jarn have Made Glass?
Could Jarn really have made glass? Sure, if his ability to heat things up with his mind was sufficient to melt the crystals in sand or rock completely. Volcanoes and lightning strikes do it all the...
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Adult-Proof
I don’t normally get childproof caps. For one thing, I almost never have children in my home. For another, I suspect the average 5-year old could open them far more easily than I can. I think my worst...
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Camera Design
There are times I wonder if product designers ever use the products they design. This is not a new complaint for me. My second post was on smoke detectors, and a couple of months later I included cars...
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Who Needs a Nightcap?
Sometimes your subconscious can be remarkably wise, though it doesn’t always choose the best way of getting through to your conscious mind. I’ve been cold at night the last few weeks, probably as a...
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Letter C: Computers
I may be of a pre-baby-boomer generation, but that does not mean I’m afraid of computers. I was hand coding in FORTRAN on punched cards for an IBM 360 forty-five years ago. My first home computer was a...
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The Race that Wasn’t
Ever heard of the Red Green Regatta? It’s held every year in Fairbanks as part of Alaska Days, scheduled this year for July 20. The idea is a short race on the Chena River (downstream) between “boats”...
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