From Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu that diverted to give passengers a view of the total eclipse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoa81xEvNA
Tag: life beyond writing
Tuesday Mixed Bag
Yesterday was my birthday, so…other things got done than a post here. So what’s interesting right now? How about two urban predators mixing it up on the street in front of a lucky photographer? http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/hawk-attacks-snake-and-epically-fails There’s another pair in the same post…that time reptile v. reptile. Several good Twitter science accounts to follow: https://twitter.com/carlzimmer Award-winning Read More…
Monday Science Links
For those who aren’t averse to spiders, a great link of links from Arthropod Ecology Frog enthusiasts: follow @MyFrogCroaked (Jonathan Kolby) on Twitter. Lots of images of gorgeous tropical (New World so far) frogs and other amphibs. Interested in coastal waters and the societies that live near/on them? Follow @hakaimagazine on Twitter. Scientist and writer Read More…
Tuesday Toolkit for Writers
Every person has a toolkit, a set of skills (physical, mental, emotional) that they use to navigate their life. When you learn something–anything–it becomes part of that toolkit, and the more tools you have, the more of life’s challenges you can handle with less strain than the person without those skills, that knowledge, that attitude. Read More…
Monday Science: Thanks, Twitter
Writers must read, and science fiction writers must read science, engineering, technology especially if not actively engaged in doing STEM stuff. But we still have only 24 hours a day. How to make time? How to find cool stuff? Journals help, but skimming several journals a week still doesn’t fill the well. Twitter, used carefully, Read More…
Hardware
Back when I was young (and dinosaurs roamed the earth) writers used very limited hardware. A pencil and some paper. A pen and some paper. Both writing instruments had been somewhere improved since earlier times–there were fountain pens, so you didn’t have to dip and write a few words and then dip again, and the Read More…