This is just skipping ahead ten months from previous part of the Apinautica. I think it can be more or less summed up in the one line in text here that it was back to the mundane. There was one really interesting event in that time period in which I was involved in the at-sea rescue of (another vessel's) man-overboard whose life was in serious ( Read more... )

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Continuing right along with this narrative. Once again LJ Idol both gave me motivation to get the next bit posted, and a theme. And in fact the theme was once again fortuitous -- "uncanny valley." Normally referring to creepy almost-lifelike dolls, I think it perfectly applies to what is going on here on the deeper level than sightseeing, facing a ( Read more... )

   It poses an interesting problem going through trying to adapt writing you've already written, rather than building something up from scratch. Especially when you suspect what you should be doing is paring it down. But this sentence is already written and you like it! It makes you really think about things. Especially with a travelogue, there's a ( Read more... )

   A'ight, so, I've been wicked busy. I just signed the contract for my third simultaneous job. It's not that I'm desperate for money so much as all three were too plum to pass up (Editor of the national beekeeping magazine, Senior [extension] Officer (entering public service two pay levels above normal entry!), and now I will teach at Melbourne ( Read more... )

   I am running down a jungle path, a lane of reddish dirt bounded by giant leafy fronds. The ferns tower over me and crazily lurch in my vision as I toddle haphazardly with the speed of joy, excited to be going somewhere. Soon we're in a museum in the jungle, I stare in amazement at colorful butterflies lined up under glass cases ( Read more... )

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Apparently there's finally a new "mini" season of the "The Real LJ Idol," the writing contest that has now wholly moved off LJ, and calls itself mini presumably solely to prevent me from ever achieving my goal of being the first to have over 200 official entries ;)

On any account I'll be participating and encourage you to as well. It's good for ( Read more... )

I've once again been too crazy busy to post the next installment of this even though it was already written. My intention had been to post all of the chapter in weekly sections in the hope that the reader here might have at least some semblance of context-within-the-chapter. Ah well. Most recent distraction on top of my other things was teaching ( Read more... )

So ereyesterday I had discovered the beautiful art of Robert Walsh, which I thought would be nice to illustrate The Apinautica. It further occurred to me that my moral objections to AI don't apply so much to art that is based on stuff already in the public domain, so let's see if the AI can create art in the style of Robert Walsh. I consulted my ( Read more... )