smalltowndad.blogspot.com
Through One Dad's Eye: A Disgustingly Perfect Day, a Grill, and Hummingbirds
http://smalltowndad.blogspot.com/2010/06/disgustingly-perfect-day-grill-and.html
Monday, June 28, 2010. A Disgustingly Perfect Day, a Grill, and Hummingbirds. I checked. It really is "room temperature" outside: 69° Fahrenheit. There's enough of a breeze to discourage mosquitoes but not bother people, the sky is clear, bright blue - it gets a little better around here, but not by much, and not often. My wife and #3 daughter are off, doing errands. I'm here, by the now-superfluous air conditioner, getting the day's work done. I was going to refill the tank Saturday afternoon - but took...
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: "Belvedere Union Grand's Room 313" - a Short-Short Story
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2009/11/belvedere-union-grands-room-313.html
Monday, November 2, 2009. Belvedere Union Grand's Room 313" - a Short-Short Story. This story originally appeared on the Loonfoot Falls Chronicle-Gazette. Blog, Halloween, 2009. Belvedere Union Grand's Room 313". Bran H. Gill. Most nights, the key to the Belvedere Union Grand hotel's room 313 is the last to leave its hook. Not that many guests sleeping there have complained: but as the owner, T. J. Baum, told me, it's the room that's the farthest from the stairs on the top floor. It's disturbing, waking ...
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: Distraction in Retrospect
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2010/02/distraction-in-retrospect.html
Monday, February 15, 2010. Brian H. Gill. As this account approaches its final edit, I see that the short, colorful story of Red Rock Exploration Consortium is rippling through the pool again. I had not intended to discuss RREC, apart from my personal involvement, but feel that I have a duty, as the last surviving member of my team, to set the record straight. Or, if you prefer, record my own observations and conclusions. Tuning was, without question, unschooled in any of the sciences and at best a compe...
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: 'Willing Suspension of Disbelief' - What's That Mean?
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2009/08/willing-suspension-of-disbelief-whats.html
Monday, August 17, 2009. Willing Suspension of Disbelief' - What's That Mean? I'll be using the term "willing suspension of disbelief" quite a bit in this blog. It's been defined as:. Samuel Coleridge coined the English phrase in Chapter 14 of Biographia Literaria to describe the way a reader is implicitly 'asked' to set aside his notions of reality and accept the dramatic conventions of the theater and stage or other fictional work. Coleridge writes:. Literary Terms and Definitions: W. I think one reaso...
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: January 2014
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html
Thursday, January 16, 2014. Don't Shoo. - - - GLIPNARF! Writing a post for another blog, A Catholic Citizen in America. My mind took me off on an tangent. Nothing unusual there. It's almost on-topic for that post, but not quite: and the excerpt is a better fit with this blog. Airman AB Glipnarf's Big Mistake. One of the very few 'UFO' reports that I think could plausibly involve extraterrestrial intelligence happened in northwestern Minnesota in 1979. Now I really should get back to work. April 26, 2010).
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: A Thought for the Day: Education and Writing
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2009/08/thought-for-day-education-and-writing.html
Monday, August 10, 2009. A Thought for the Day: Education and Writing. Now and again, you'll read that education is good for writers. The idea is that a good liberal arts education gives a person a sort of generalized background in the culture, and hones communications skills. Sure getting the degrees was nice: but as someone must have said:. I never let earning a degree get in the way of getting an education. Thanks for your comment! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I do not collect information on in...
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: From the Mind of the Lemming: Night Flight
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2014/10/from-mind-of-lemming-night-flight.html
Saturday, October 4, 2014. From the Mind of the Lemming: Night Flight. Humans are adaptable critters. Or perhaps the Lemming should say "adapting.". For example, although they've got top-rate color vision and see well enough to avoid trees at twilight, humans are most sincerely not nocturnal. But instead of accepting a role as day-dwellers, they keep developing new ways to stay active: no matter where a sun is relative to the local horizon. Originally posted last week:. September 26, 2014). I do collect ...
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: Birthright
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2010/02/birthright.html
Friday, February 19, 2010. Brian H. Gill. Despite the stories you've seen, there never were very many Voini. Like any alter, each Voin was expensive to grow. Also, unlike the Gung Yan, Voini had earned an unpleasant reputation during the recent wars. Between limited production, judgments after the Suspension and 'Voin hunts,' there are now perhaps only a few dozen surviving Voini. Perhaps it is best this way. Yes, that could be frightening. So, yes: I believe I understand how the victors viewed the Voini...
driftingattheedge.blogspot.com
Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space: Four Millennia of Human Nature: I Think Qoheleth is Right
http://driftingattheedge.blogspot.com/2009/08/four-millennia-of-human-nature-i-think.html
Monday, August 3, 2009. Four Millennia of Human Nature: I Think Qoheleth is Right. Cuneiform writing is one of the oldest information storage and retrieval technologies we know of - apart from artwork left of cave walls tens of thousands of years ago. Cuneiform made it possible to record data without relying on the memory of human beings: a breakthrough in information technology. That was about 5,000 years ago. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Human Condition. This is where it gets interesting, I think....
