http://rocketscientist.today.com Melding fiction and science in life and on paper Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:45:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yep, I said I had a bunch.  Feel free to add a favorite of yours or write your own! A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. -- David J. Liszewski The Web site you seek Cannot be located but Endless others exist. -- Joy Rothke Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/04/04/saturday-quote-a-thon-computer-haiku/ Yes, it's Friday and I should put up something fabulous, but I can't because I won't be here.  Why, you say?  Because I'm going to the theater to watch Les Misérables, one of my favorite modern musicals.  Love the music.  Love the chorale pieces.  It's one of a very very small ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/04/03/woohoo-friday-musical/ Today, of course, is the day I steal my own comment from (usually) someone else blog and make a post about it.  Kudos to Relax Max of Clarity2009 for giving me a doozy.  He wrote a blog , actually, in response to a quote I'd given on Saturday:  "Every gun ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/04/02/thieving-thursday-a-discussion-on-war/ I'm going to take a break from short stories (sort of) because I read a post on Bookish' blog wherein someone wrote a book transforming the classic Pride and Prejudice to an alternate book:  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  OK.  Zombies aren't my thing and I'm very fond of the ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/04/01/www-twisting-a-classic/ Sometimes it amazes me.  Just as something triggers a train of thought in my brain, like the response to yesterday's blog, the New York Times (or a blog or something else) will spit forth something that goes along with what I'm thinking.  In this case, it was the New York ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/31/do-your-own-thinking/ Hard on the heels of the New York Times article I referred to yesterday, I found yet another article that made me think.  This time, it was talking about Wikipedia .  I'm not going to quote the article (I try to avoid that - better you should read it directly), ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/30/in-defense-of-wikipedia/ Once again, the editorial pages of the New York Times have provided me food for thought.  And, when I get to thinking, I try to put it on my blog so you all can share it.  In this case, it was it was Kristoff's column on the experts ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/29/experts-or-not/ I didn't want to pursue a theme today.  Couldn't settle on one, so I thought I'd just scroll randomly through my long list of quotes and nab a few for this Saturday.  Enjoy the eclectic weirdness of the kinds of quotes I collect. One of the difficulties of politics is that ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/28/saturday-quote-a-thon-feeling-random/ Today, it's time to take care of some housekeeping. First, those of you who are Today.com bloggers already know that entrecard is now taboo.  For the rest of you, I'll be leaving entrecard soon and thought I'd give you a heads up in case that's how you find me.  I've ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/27/housekeeping/ Alright, today I really did it.  Usually, my Thursday thievery involves stealing my own comments from someone else's blog.  But, today, I really stealing someone else's brilliance to populate my blog, though I had her permission.  What am I stealing?  Well, the beauty of one daughter and the talent of ... http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/03/26/talk-about-thievery/