Fight against quacks

Every time you read an article or hear something on the radio against the quacks, send the editors a mail, thanking them. Only this way we can get them understand that the public is sick of these charlatans...

stories

Wow. I'm writing at least 3 every week now. I try to hit 1000 words for the longer ones and try to write at least oe or two of those once a week. I have plenty of ideas. I just need to put them onto screen now.

Hitit Gunesi

I've done the DNS changes and it's all live.
Now I need to write more. I've written a fair amount of stories in the last two months and a bunch of scifaikus but since last week it's been torturous. It's not like I don't have time, I have plenty but I've been feeling like crap and have done absolutely nothing.

Now I'm going to Belgium for a day again, maybe two, I haven't decided yet. This means that not much writing this weekend either, nor tomorrow evening. It's already Thursday and I've been doing nothing all of these evenings. Bummer.. Really.. This sucks.

I'm still alive

heh... barely...

Garfield Minus Garfield book!?

This is totally cool!

When I was a kid I liked Garfield. When I grew a bit, I started to dislike the Cat and the Dog in the series. Garfield Minus Garfield was an eye opener, incredibly funny but sad antics of a loner... A bit like me - heheh - and it looks like I'm not alone.

I'd love to have the book, I hope it becomes available in UK with a reasonable price. Sometimes ordering something from Amazon US is viable but usually I wait for weeks and weeks for the stuff to arrive.

Why Orson Scott Card sucks

Initially I really liked Orson Scott Card's books. Ender's Game was a brilliant concept, well written and conceived. As I read more, I found more books I was fond of. Slowly I realised that he had a serious agenda lurking in the background, mainly his Mormon values. Finally one day I left one of his books in the middle of it, being sick of his values. I can stomach poligamy and "Honour your Father (or elders, authority) without question" only to a degree. It seriously sucked.

John Scalzi posted a nice article about same sex marriage and points to OSC's disgusting rant.

Orson Scott Card's political ideas stink. Unfortunately his books reek of these as well. That's it. I shall never read an other OSC book apart from the good old Ender's Game (and I have to admit, every time I reread that book I find an other one of these gems in it - like the government is so bad because Ender's parents are not allowed to breed like rabbits!).

Scalzi Old Man's war

Damn.. What a Heinlein rip-off... And what a brilliant book! Heheh, that was a joke.

I enjoyed every page and finished with glee and pleasure. Brilliant book, seriously, can't give it enough praise. It is a wonderful homage to Heinlein and his Starship Troopers but without the fascism and more sex. Lovely.

Off to Amazon to order the rest... Heheh.. Can't wait for Zoe's War being available in UK.

The man knows how to tape a bacon to a cat... And how to write.

Dress sense

WTF! Shorts, t-shirt and huge cowboy boots?? woman, that's just plain stupid!

I don't get fashion, it's stupid. T-shirts + jeans, that's me. Boring but comfortable...

20080705 Oxford

I can't believe it is July and I'm into 1/6th of it already.

I'm sitting in starbucks in Oxford again, listening to American Astronaut soundtrack and reading Scalzi's Old Man's War.

The weather wasn't very nice when I rode here but right now it is glorious sunshine and white puffy clouds - filling me with an incredible good mood.

American Astronaut - this movie needs rewatching again, at a high volume. The songs are so good...

I love cumulus clouds...

All these days I've been planning to write something about the American Astronaut and record it but I've been lazy. I need to get my act together and do some more recordings.

Also I have a massive recording I need to clean and edit and put out ASAP. Also getting the guys to contribute more is challenging, maybe I should arrange some more Skype recording sessions soon.

65 seconds

That's all it takes...

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

Stonehenge...

I'm here.
Strange thing.
They are impressive. There is nothing around (apart from two noisy roads) and it's quite interesting. I wonder what did the Gods tell people to convince them to build this.

It was an interesting trip. The GPS lost the way again and tried to make me go into the middle of nowhere. On the other hand now I am much more comfortable with the curves and everything so it was a successful road trip. I did 85 miles in 2.5h, damn, the traffic was rubbish but because I said shortest route and no motorways, it put me through some beautiful countryside.

It's not a very nice day, complete cloud cover so I don't think the pictures will be any good but still, it's an excuse.

It's quite crowded here, loads of tourists (and me) and A303 loud and clear only a couple of hundreds of meters away so it's not really peaceful but I can still hear a lot of birds chirping which is very nice.

I wonder... Priests, Shamans, Medicine men and XXX... They hold too much power over people, these stones are a clear demonstration. After 3-4 thousands of years, they are still here standing whereas the idiots who commandeered this thing are all dead, turned to earth and dust. Good ridden.

I haven't eaten anything since yesterday and it's almost 2pm now. I think I'll take some more pics and head back home.

Snow...

It is snowing, heavily. WTF!
And I got my new bike yesterday and I really wanted to go around a bit.
It's not very deep yet but if this goes on... Wow... First time in years I see proper snow. Cambridgeshire didn't get a lot of snow, it only got very cold sometimes. It also rained less. Unfortunately this bit of England gets much more rain and snow.

old SF stories

It's interesting that most of the fifties SF stories are based on invasion.
The Soviets must have scared them witless....

On the train again

It is Friday.

On the train already. I hope it won't be very very crowded but we shall see.

It is rainy and humid and much warmer than last couple of days.

I am gong to turn my mp3 player off and try to read some Asimov's instead. We'll see how successful I will be.

I am already hungry and sleepy, one small mug of coffee this morning wasn't enough.

China

Listening to Global Business on the player, Peter Day talking about China, it's quite interesting. What a culture shock it must be for the Chinese, new factories and everything. Although there are quite bad aspects of the global trade, I believe overall Chinese are now richer and have a better quaoity of life. Slowly they will learn to act against the Communist party - it's quite harrowing to listen to memories of China after the Cutural Revolution - how much of Chinese lifestyle was destroyed, I wonder. You would have thought that it would be the towns really got affected, not the countryside since it is harder to control widely distribured villages and farmers - on the other hand, forced relocation, moving towards towns and cities might have destroyed that.

I believe still sections of China are owned and ruled by Warlords and Chieftains, things don't change that quickly.

Blogs

The mailed ones are all coming out of order, oh well....

test

hello?

mphff

I'm mildly bored...

on the train again

Compilation failed at the last hour so it's all more and more work for tonight. The train is too crowded for me to fire up the work lapto and check the logs and the errors. I'll do that at home. Got a sandwich on the go, these trips are costing me an arm and a leg but I was hungry. It's going to ruin the diet. Tomorrow morning I'll have something and that's it.

I couldn't write anything nor read today but I'm listening o some IOT. King Lear, much fun.

200803011058

In Oxford, Starbucks on the high street again.
Ate a nice mushroom and cheese pannini and drowned a large cup of coffee. I feel much better now.

I have the A590 on the table, it's a beautiful piece of kit, I love the LCD and it has all of the defaults and the manual control and the manual control is quite usable.

A nice indian chick is sitting across me with a huge HP laptop, I wonder what is she working on. I brought some C nd Java books with the Eee so I hope to look at a couple of chapters of the stuff, I hope I can.

Recently I find writing quite hard work, the things don't come easy. The plots are not going anywhere and I seem to be stuck with lots of ideas about mil-SF with disastrous endings. I can't find anything that's cheerful. I normally hate mil-SF but a lot of my imaginations are about it which is a strange thing, I really dislike reading apart from a couple of very good books like Starship Troopers and Sheakley's Armour (I hope I remembered his name OK, I can't get a WiFi connecton so I can't check for it at the moment grrr - there is a wifi cloud but I can't get any DHCP addresses.

It must be colder than I thought, people are wearing quite heavy clothings. Since the laptop didn't connect to the network, I couldn't check it and only have a T-Shirt and a fleece, it will be OK. I hope.

I need to work.