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Reading: The New Yorker
Music: The Clash
TV/Movie: Rumpole of the Bailey
Link o' the Day: my latest entries at Forces of Geek and Charge of the Write Brigade
Rumor has it... all plants descend from a single genetic template called snopsia originalus. There is no known fossil record of this "first plant" but every known genetic plant profile points to one common root. Paleo-botonists believe it resembled flowering bamboo.
Rumor has it... Common English language grammar rules forbidding the splitting of infinitives and ending sentences with prepositions originate in Latin grammar rules. 19th century grammarians decided that if it could not be done in Latin, it shouldn't be done in English.
Rumor has it... early cultures boiled coffee beans to keep away household pests and to color clay. Coffee was once considered a mild poison.
Rumor has it... It is commonly rumored that Michael Jackson once bid on the skeleton of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. A 2007 New Yorker article revealed that Merrick's right-hand ring finger is actually owned by filmmaker David Lynch.
Rumor has it... wristwatches were once exclusively worn by women. Wearing watches on one's wrist did not become a common practice until 1900 after the success of synchronized operations by British soldiers equipped with wristwatches turned the tide of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa.
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Tuesday is here and we're doing pretty well, schedule-wise. The latest medical journal proof is back with the editor. I have some long-awaited materials to finish up the Van Alexander book and the Character Kings book, so those will be going to press soon. I have some changes to do to the Doris Day back cover, but that book looks like it's nearly done as well. The SFWA Bulletin is out on proof, but I expect I'll be seeing some of that coming back this week. TumbleTap projects continue forward and will still see publication in time for the San Diego ComicCon. There are some other projects in the works as well. Poetry subs. Fiction subs. Some other of my own writing projects.
It's good to be busy. Now if we can get the money rolling in...
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Today's links go to a couple of recent posts I've made elsewhere in Internet 2.0. First up is my latest review column at Forces of Geek in which I review Kurt Vonnegut's Armageddon In Retrospect and 40 Hour Man by Stephen Beaupre and Steve Lafler. Also up is my most recent entry at Charge of the Write Brigade in which I discuss the hazards of imitating other writers' styles.
Check 'em out.
Cheers!
Music: The Clash
TV/Movie: Rumpole of the Bailey
Link o' the Day: my latest entries at Forces of Geek and Charge of the Write Brigade
Rumor has it... all plants descend from a single genetic template called snopsia originalus. There is no known fossil record of this "first plant" but every known genetic plant profile points to one common root. Paleo-botonists believe it resembled flowering bamboo.
Rumor has it... Common English language grammar rules forbidding the splitting of infinitives and ending sentences with prepositions originate in Latin grammar rules. 19th century grammarians decided that if it could not be done in Latin, it shouldn't be done in English.
Rumor has it... early cultures boiled coffee beans to keep away household pests and to color clay. Coffee was once considered a mild poison.
Rumor has it... It is commonly rumored that Michael Jackson once bid on the skeleton of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. A 2007 New Yorker article revealed that Merrick's right-hand ring finger is actually owned by filmmaker David Lynch.
Rumor has it... wristwatches were once exclusively worn by women. Wearing watches on one's wrist did not become a common practice until 1900 after the success of synchronized operations by British soldiers equipped with wristwatches turned the tide of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa.
-=-=-=-=-
Tuesday is here and we're doing pretty well, schedule-wise. The latest medical journal proof is back with the editor. I have some long-awaited materials to finish up the Van Alexander book and the Character Kings book, so those will be going to press soon. I have some changes to do to the Doris Day back cover, but that book looks like it's nearly done as well. The SFWA Bulletin is out on proof, but I expect I'll be seeing some of that coming back this week. TumbleTap projects continue forward and will still see publication in time for the San Diego ComicCon. There are some other projects in the works as well. Poetry subs. Fiction subs. Some other of my own writing projects.
It's good to be busy. Now if we can get the money rolling in...
-=-=-=-=-
Today's links go to a couple of recent posts I've made elsewhere in Internet 2.0. First up is my latest review column at Forces of Geek in which I review Kurt Vonnegut's Armageddon In Retrospect and 40 Hour Man by Stephen Beaupre and Steve Lafler. Also up is my most recent entry at Charge of the Write Brigade in which I discuss the hazards of imitating other writers' styles.
Check 'em out.
Cheers!
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