You will have noticed, I’m sure, the new button on the front page for Privacy Policy.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope it covers what it’s supposed to; I tried, but one never knows when a new government regulation shows up, and especially not from a government not one’s own.\u00a0\u00a0 You may also have noticed that there aren’t any Privacy Policy notices on the websites themselves, and this is due to a difficulty my website admin is having accessing the server at the hosting site and getting it to make the changes she’s sent.\u00a0 Several times.\u00a0\u00a0 Until she gets that done, she can’t change the website.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile, the latest iteration of my browser is clutching its pearls and fainting away on the couch because the website doesn’t have a secure connection, and in some cases (like with the Paksworld blog) wont let me in as admin because of that.\u00a0 Yes, I want it to be a secure connection.\u00a0 Again, website admin can’t change that right now.\u00a0\u00a0 On the router reboot thing…Ghu only knows.\u00a0 I pulled the plug, rebooted, and have no way of knowing if the DSL-provided modem router is gorked or not.<\/p>\n
But what, you ask, bored with all this, is Ky Vatta up to?\u00a0\u00a0 Well, first I have to tell you about something I wanted desperately, wrote about in an SF book, that is now available almost as I had written it, except using video screens and not a VR helmet.\u00a0\u00a0 Which would be much better, IMO.\u00a0 The Racewood Horse Simulator is so doggone close (except for the VR stuff–my idea’s better!) to what I “invented” for Lady Cecelia’s space yacht in HUNTING PARTY it’s eerie.\u00a0 Includes almost all the things I, as a rider, wanted: sensors in the saddle to let you know if your seat bones are equally weighted and a visual display, sensors on the sides showing location and strength of leg contact, sensors for rein tension.\u00a0 It comes in several models, optimized for different equestrian sports.\u00a0 It offers walk, trot, canter, gallop at different speeds\/degrees of collection, with some lateral work capability for the dressage model, faux-jumping for show jumping and cross country.\u00a0\u00a0 Does not offer full selection of different horse types (as mine did so you could practice on a short-strided, medium strided, or long strided horse) but that will come, I’m sure.\u00a0 Some upscale riding schools are not using them for both practice and advanced coaching.\u00a0 One of the videos I saw was a riding instructor who has tried one out and found that she was posting differently, with a sort of twist in her torso, on one diagonal–something she’d never noticed, but I’ll bet her horse had.\u00a0 It would be a great tool for rehabbing a rider like me, who’s been out of riding too long.\u00a0 The boring reconditioning stuff could be done at least partly on the simulator, sparing a live horse having a floppy-bodied out of condition rider on its back.\u00a0 Anyway, here’s a link to Racewood:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.racewood.com\/contact-us.html\u00a0\u00a0 and a link to a YouTube video of someone riding on one. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C6HM5qgzlaM\u00a0 and\/or https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OPbu0TiJeWg.\u00a0\u00a0 Or for a cutting horse version…https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ac03W7einJk\u00a0\u00a0 I do think a VR helmet would be a lot better than the screen movie.\u00a0\u00a0 With the images actually taken from a helmet cam worn by someone on an actual horse.<\/p>\n
Back to Ky.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m letting her work her way through the post-INTO THE FIRE time…I know *some* of what she’s up to, but not everything, and not enough yet to get any idea of actual Story coming through.\u00a0\u00a0 Flickers of things happening but nothing solid enough yet.\u00a0 INTO THE FIRE did not go where I first expected, and thus what I thought was coming up next…isn’t.\u00a0 I’d been working toward incorporating a scrap I wrote years and years ago and now…first off, I can’t find the scrap, and secondly, it doesn’t fit.\u00a0\u00a0 And I have to have some space for the sword.\u00a0 What sword, you ask?\u00a0 Well.\u00a0 You’ll find out what sword, and I’ll find out WHY the sword (other than the obvious stuff that’s in the first pages, but the real deep-plot “why is there a sword in this book anyway?”\u00a0\u00a0 Plot Daemon is glaring at me.\u00a0 I’m not supposed to talk about anything yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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