The weather is warming up again. Our high today was 91F, with a heat index of 96F. The forecast high for Wenesday is 100F.

I actually slept well last night. And while I did not work on The Night Watchers today, I did write the first 1,002 words on a new science-fiction story, "Mons Niloticus." And that's far better than writing nothing at all. I ( Read more... )

It as a good day.

Sunny and cloudy, on and off. Our high was only 83˚F.

After being ill last night, I slept more than eight hours and woke feeling halfway decent. This morning I set aside MP1 and began laying out MP1.2, which will corporate all I've written so far on that one plioplatecarpine and includes, as well, the other plioplatecarpine. I ( Read more... )

This morning, reading back over LJ entries from this day in years past, following links, links from links, I came across this headline: "Can We Save the Tastiest Fish in the Sea?". Now, this is actually on Discovery News, a more or less respectable source for science news (March 4, 2010). Just seeing the headline - "Can We Save the Tastiest Fish in ( Read more... )

One cannot genuinely hate a season, but autumn instills in me a deep uneasiness. Yesterday and today, it feels like autumn here in Providence. That carnivorous blue sky, low humidity, temperatures in the seventies Fahrenheit. I'm glad for the break from the heat, but not glad that means a splash of autumn in July ( Read more... )

Supposedly, today will be a little cooler than yesterday. Here in Providence, the temperature reached about 87F. That was Outside. Inside the House, the temperature reached 86F and stayed there for several hours after sunset.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,459 words on "Tidal Forces." I wrote one of the few intentionally frightening scenes I've ever written ( Read more... )

Yes, today was World Turtle Day. I suspect not a lot of Americans spend a lot of time thinking about turtles. But they've always been among my favorite reptiles, even when I include all those wonderful extinct groups. Indeed, turtles are a relic of an all but vanished branch of the Reptilia, the Parareptilia. Of all the many and varied forms of ( Read more... )

Cloudy today, and a bit cooler.

I had in mind to write something about the UN report on the world's devastated fish stocks and the very real possibility that, at this rate, the oceans will be essentially devoid of fish by 2050. Or, more specifically, about the aggressively, proudly idiotic comments stories like these generate on the internet. And ( Read more... )

I've got a whole bunch of science links that have been piling up the last few days, things I've meant to post and haven't...but this first one is the biggest and the best of the lot:

From Nasawatch.com: Water Spotted on Surface of Mars: That is, liquid water. Aqua vitae. The wet stuff. I quote:

According to an item first posted by Aviation Week ( Read more... )