Where are they?

I thought someone was going to transcribe our creations from the other night?

Meeting Tomorrow

Boy, do I love the librrary's proxy server. I love how about ten percent of the time it can't connect with email accounts and blogger and loses your data. It's an invaluable service.

I had just written a message asking a couple of regular members of the writing group to bring a writing exercise for us to try. I want to impress our new people by showing them how smart you guys are. So, not only bring something to read and share, bring an exercise if you dare.

A little weirdness for you

There is an artist in New York that makes haikus out of names on gravestones and the plasters them on walls in New York City. They are called daikus. Or diekus. Still sounds the same.

I also found a site that has limericks made from famous poems.

Do I find the coolest stuff to share or what? OK, I still it all from Metafilter but I still have to look.

I also found that the space shuttle is not a safe form of transportation.

Meeting This Thursday

Howdy, guys and gals. I just wanted to remind everyone that we are meeting this Thursday at 6 pm. I have had two inquiries in the last couple of weeks concerning our group and we have the potential to have three new participants. As always, please don't scare the new people if possible.

Harry Potter thing

Naturally there are going to be lots and lots of references in the media to Harry Potter because of the book. Leave it to Unshelved to put a nice twist on the whole event.

Harry Potter

So, is everyone hunkered down today and reading the new Harry Potter book? Any early reactions?

Favorite weapons from SF?

This blog posting was inspired by another blog posting to post their favorite ten weapons of science fiction. I've been thinking about this for a few minutes and I realized that the SF I have read hasn't had a lot of weaponry in it. Here's a few I can think of.

1) Corwdainer Smith has a story in which humans are telepathically linked to cats and the cats are in small ships (or some kind of contraption) and they patrol outside of a larger space ship, protecting it. Now that's a cool weapon.

2) I always liked that Heinlein considered the well trained individual the most dangerous weapon the in the universe.

3) They used sling shots on the generational starship in the story "Universe," also known as "Orphans of the Sky."

4) The remote controlled combat robots in "Forever Peace" by Joe Haldeman.

5) Those big machine guns Bruce Willis used in "The Fifth Element."

6) A heat ray weapon David Drake described in one of his short stories. The way they used it like a machine gun against an indigenous people still sticks in my head to this day.

7) OK, light sabers. They look awesome and sound even better.

8) The space warfare describe in Heinlein's novel "Citizen of the Galaxy."

9) The nanotechnology equipped service rifle used by the soldiers in Scalzi's "Old Man's War."

10) Every single sword that had a name in the Lord of the Rings.

How about ya'll?

Harry-est Cities

Have you been wondering what cities have the densest Harry Potter populations? Wonder no more, kiddies.

Science Fiction Library

It's at UC Riverside and you can read about here. (Link stolen from David Brin's Blog).

Hubble image tours

These are very cool. I also stole this link from David Brin's blog.

What to read after the last Potter book

The website SF Signal is working on a list for three different age groups so that when people have finished reading the last Harry Potter book they can move on to something else.

Authors and the internets

If you is an author you gots to use the internets.

Does this look like me?



Make your own Simpson's avatar here.

It's the end of the world

Since Mitchell was reading a book by Pratchett and Gaiman about the end of the world I thought it would be appropriate to link to a review of a collection of short stories that are inspired by or about an apocalypse.

Meeting tonight

Just to let you know. The library is open today and we are having our meeting, even if Clare will be ultra late.

So apparently everybody hates me and isn't reading and commenting on my post so I'm not coming to the meeting tomorrow.

Actually that's not why. And I might be able to come for the last bit of the meeting, but considering Charlotte's public transportation system, probably not. I got a job at the library. A summer teen internship that is *gasp* paid. It's at the Mint Hill branch. I'm working until six tomorrow. And I'm taking the bus back from there...so I might make it back for...the last five minutes of the meeting. But don't be too suprised if I don't. Sorry!

(I'm working for the library!)

(I have a little pin that says "Staff" and everything.)

(Isn't that awesome?)

I thought this essay was really amazing. Well, I say essay, it was originally meant as a speech to be given to high schoolers. I wish I had read it about a year ago. I agree emphatically with most everything he says and he actually brought up some points I hadn't thought about before. It's actually good, so of course he never actually got to give it...


linky

It starts off pretty typical sounding, but give it a try. It gets interesting.

Edit: This one is pretty amazing too