Paul DryePaul Drye - LiveJournal.com!- May 27, 2008 A photo of the Phoenix lander and parachute, mid-drop, as taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:http://pauldrye.livejournal.com/188193.html "You could look worse as a company, but puppies and shotguns would probably need to be involved."- May 23, 2008 Clever line above stolen from an ars.technica story on the following:Depending on where you live you may or may not know that Bell Canada is under fire for starting to throttle P2P traffic recently. This is particularly the case since, legislatively, competition in Canadian high-speed Internet is enforced by requiring Bell to open their monopoly on infrastructure to smaller organizations, and Bell unilaterally decided to eliminate one point of competition between their internet service and the..http://pauldrye.livejournal.com/187962.html (Untitled)- May 21, 2008 6,019 &8594; 100,000I'd spent a lot of the past couple weeks contradicting what I said earlier about writing in fragments then stitching them together. Starting from, admittedly, two pieces I ended up with some 4000 words running directly from the beginning to the decision by the protagonist to leave what was left of his home.That odd sensation has corrected itself with the addition of numerous fragments (numbering from just over 100 words to just over 1000) that trail out over the first half...http://pauldrye.livejournal.com/187426.html (Untitled)- May 17, 2008 4,171 &8594; 100,000Progress is no thanks to my cold (still getting worse after a week) and two days of workers jackhammering the concrete balcony right outside my window. Paul is cranky. On a plus note, Wayne P. sent me a nice piccie of Gerrit this morning.http://pauldrye.livejournal.com/187377.html That's an anus-puckerer, yeah- May 14, 2008 While researching medieval eye and cataract surgery, I ran across the phrase "mechanical pupil dilation".http://pauldrye.livejournal.com/186933.html Saga, and Triumph, and the beginning of a Journey (70s big hair not required)- May 13, 2008 3,752 &8594; 100,000And on to the next natural break in the story. Gerrit has spent the night heroically hiding up a tree, and descended to take stock of the situation. The messenger at the side of the road had been slaughtered the night before, and on the theory that he sure as heck doesn't need it any more Gerrit has relieved him of his mail coat and the contents of his saddle bag. Most importantly, this includes The Sword -- and that's one fragment now incorporated in the main body.http://pauldrye.livejournal.com/186787.html How do you kill an undead anyway- May 12, 2008 2,455 &8594; 100,000I was in the whole weekend, trying to prevent a slight cold from blossoming into something worse as I've a class to teach over the next three days. Yesterday I mostly read Turtledove's Beyond the Gap(1). Today -- fortified with some crockpot chicken stew -- I re-read and reviewed what I'd written in the novel before and wrote out a bit more. The first combat against a single undead is done(2), and Gerrit's quiet farm life is about to crash down around him.(1) - It's his best.http://pauldrye.livejournal.com/186490.html |