Monthly Archives: July 2005
Lack of hawkweed
Plant monitoring: We were looking for hawkweed and didn’t see any. On a brighter note, we returned to the spot where we’d seen one prairie thimbleweed plant so the naturalist could GPS it, and found a patch of at least … Continue reading
Franklin biography
Finished Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin (abridged and read by Boyd Gaines) on the way back. It’s very favorable — I suppose it’s hard to find bad things to say about Franklin, though Isaacson gives a chapter at the … Continue reading
Collaborative novels in the newspaper
The Columbus Dispatch is putting serial novels up on its website. They got a bunch of their staff to write the first chapters, then recruited writers in the community to write subsequent chapters. According to Poynter's Steve Outing, readers will … Continue reading
Park
I’d secretly hoped that it would be pouring rain this morning, so that plant monitoring would be canceled. Unfortunately, it’s a lovely clear day, if hot and humid. Also unfortunately, when I got to the park after only five hours … Continue reading
Ready or not
Over on rec.arts.sf.composition, a poster wondered whether his book is ready to publish. Patricia C. Wrede wrote: So: What you *want* is somebody to tell you whether or not this thing you have written is publishable. What you *need* is … Continue reading
Writing Links
has an excellent post on conscious incompetence and the perceived suckiness of writing and plateaus et al.
Puccoon, Thimbleweed, and the USDA Plants Database
Today we visited the Girdham Dunes, hunting for puccoon and thimbleweed. I think the links I have go to the correct varieties of each: Plains Puccoon, or Lithospermum caroliniense (Walt. ex J.F. Gmel.) MacM. Prairie Thimbleweed, or Anemone cylindrica In … Continue reading
Weekend Media Report
Carl Hiaasen, Basket Case (Abridged, and read by the author) – Listened to this on the drive down. *Hilarious*. I’d heard of Hiaasen years ago and never read any of his books. He’s a columnist for the Miami Herald and … Continue reading
What newly-published authors…
What newly-published authors find out and you want to know Wiscon Panel #42 Saturday, 10 a.m. Panelists: John M. Scalzi [an excellent moderator], Barth Anderson, Kelly D. Link, Virginia “Ginny” G. McMorrow [Relatively short report – I only took only … Continue reading
