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Category Archives: Writing
Aliens are Humans? – Wait a Minute!
I’ve heard it said that all aliens in science fiction are really humans in disguise for getting the author’s point across about humanity. Apparently the prime directive about writing science fiction is that it must be human centred even when … Continue reading
Posted in Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged 5 basic settings, aliens, aliens aren't just funny looking humans, aliens in Star Trek are usually humans with putty, alternate reality, animals, anything hard with gravity, are all planets really Earth?, compress my 6 kinds of character to one kind, compress the 5 settings into one, dystopias, free fall, godlike creatures, humans, humans and Vulcans almost certainly can't breed with each other, lesser magical creatures, robots or computers, science fiction, simpler universe but much more boring, Spock, Star Trek, the divine(heaven or hell), ustopias, Vulcans, weird and exotic settings (other astronomical objects
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What Can I Say About Reverse Skating?
To my mind, my namesake, science fiction writer Larry Niven, is the king of science fiction ideas. Not only are some of his ideas great, but he has a large amount of them. In the short story, “What Can You … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged AI robots, dangerous business, double the blade tracks, humans are too fragile, ideas, interesting conjectures, Larry Niven, new sports injury that doesn't displace humans, no slippage might injure the suit of armour skater, perpendicular blades so you can stop, reverse skating, science fiction, strap blocks of ice to feet and skate on blade tracks, suit of armor, suit of ice, suit of segmented ice, the king of science fiction ideas, turns and jumps, What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manholes?
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Don’t Grinch or Scrooge This Post
How many times have we heard it? Someone is acting non Christmassy and so we label them a grinch. Or someone is cheap with the amount of money spent on gifts so someone calls them a scrooge. Who would argue … Continue reading
Duke Minus
The Midas touch is the story of King Midas and how he got his wish for everything he touched to be turned to gold. This made Midas happy until he realized he would starve to death because he couldn’t eat … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged change things to silver, creature that could eat anything at all, Dionysius, divorce the Queen, Duke Minus, eats Minus and turns him into dukie, golden robot, kept Midas touch except for food and drink, King Midas, Midas would starve to death, Milos touch, nannies could raise babies, Prince Milos, silver lining, silver robot, the gold price would plummet because of Midas, the Midas touch, the Minus touch, turn things to dookie
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Irrational Bias in the Guardian
This recent Guardian article whines about today’s children not being able to use a pencil properly because all they do with their hands is press buttons and screens. But of course they had to make a large point of holding … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Social Science, Writing, Wry
Tagged "x"es and a check, 5 fingered grasp exercises 5 fingers, Bass, crokinole, dynamic sounds positive, dynamic tripod, dynamic tripod only exercises 3 fingers, fine motor skills, five fingered grasp, get a grip - The Guardian, grasp sounds negative, guitar, I can get likenesses of people while not using the dynamic tripod method, keyboards, musicians and precision games don't need the dynamic tripod method, neatness is probably in the wrist, people who hold their pen in other ways are just as fast and have as much stamina and are just as neat, recent Guardian article, The Guardian, today's children can't hold a pencil properly
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My Best Posts of the Year 2017
If you think my annual post about my favourites from the past year is a cop out, you are absolutely correct. I give myself one week a year when I don’t have to think of anything new and shiny. It … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Humour, Writing
Tagged boo to Poll Daddy, comic pages, favourites, happy 2018, memory getting worse, Nooz Spun Right, posts, water roads
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If a Critic Critiqued Science Papers as a Whole
My suspension of disbelief is thrown off almost immediately with these science papers. They exist in such exotic locales. For example these tall tales exist in: 1)Volcano caves buried under miles of ice on Antarctica, 2) Old mines, many miles … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Writing
Tagged 27 kilometer ring, build to the climax, critic, critique, exotic locales, first person, info dumps, miles below the Earth's surface, motivation, New York City, observatory, publishing offices, replication of science papers, Roger Zalazny, science papers, show don't tell, space, suspension of disbelief, tallest mountain, The Chronicles of Amber, the rain forest, unreliable narrator, volcanic caves under the ice, writing style
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The Web that Spiderman Weaves
Marvel comics swears that Spiderman’s webs dissolve which is why there are not crews to clean up Spiderman’s webslingings all over the city. But that is a simple answer for what I fear is a more complex problem. Let’s examine … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged 100 foot length of silk for each Spiderman swing, eight hours, huge amount of silk left from one patrol, knife can't cut through Spiderman's silk, Marvel, silk, silk could block building entrances, silk is very sticky, spider silk, Spiderman, Spiderman's silk dissolves, stick toddler's mouths shut, street cleaner would get gummed up, trap kids who tried to imitate Spiderman, web, webbing must last eight hours, would ruin cars
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Title Mining is Strong in Imagine Dragons
For their first album I wrote a post to show how every Imagine Dragons song on their first album had a title that had been used earlier. As a control, I compared it with a Kate Bush CD which also … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Writing
Tagged American Authors, Are Imagine Dragons title mining, Artists gave up on unique song titles many years ago, Believer, Bruce Springsteen, Dancing in the Dark, Evolve, gold, I Bet My Life, Imagine Dragon fans must love title mining, Imagine Dragons, jinx, Kate Bush, lost the pro title mining crowd, most album names are unique, Mouth of the River, Night Visions, Parachute Club, Rise Up, Sampson!, Shots, Smoke + Mirrors, sophomore, the Beatles, Thunder, title mining, Walking the Wire, Yesterday
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