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Monthly Archives: October 2009
The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-15: Balloon boy
Today’s tweets were dominated by news about “balloon boy”: 6-year-old Falcon Heene supposed flight across the Colorado sky in his father’s Mylar-coated helium experimental balloon. Good thing for the boy he was really hiding in a cardboard box in the … Continue reading
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Taking life support for granted
Pina Chomko: s a story character in my novel-in-progress Cold. She’s not like us: she grew up in outer space. Her dream: to take for granted all the life support services that nature provides for free — just like us.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged biospherics, CELSS, Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, Pina Chomko (Cold), research for writing, science fiction, writing
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-14
Aaaaaaahhhh! I have an Abba earworm! Must fight back: Värttinä today. # What can I say? Alaska State Troopers do great work on a tough job, but ride-along cop shows always suck. http://bit.ly/Y7eqR # Johnny Appleseed comes to the Alaska … Continue reading
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-13: Your spearhead is wilting
The original malewhinge I tweeted about above has seemingly disappeared, as has the website it came from, which was called “The Spearhead.” But the Fan History Wiki has a useful summary.
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Tagged antifeminist, Battlestar Galactica (TV), Dollhouse (TV), science fiction, Sean Hannity, terraforming, TV
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-12: UAA moose
Fall safety warning at UAA: “Should a moose cross your path – wait for it to move along or choose an alternate route.” #
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Tagged Chugach Mountains, moose, UAA
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Biospherics
More on my evolving knowledge about closed ecological life support systems (CELSS) for use in my novels-in-progress projects Long Dark & Cold: biospherics is a handy new term for what it’s really all about.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged biospherics, CELSS, Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, research for writing, science fiction, writing
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-11: The Running Man livesnark
Most of today’s tweets comprise my contributions to our inaugural #livesnark featuring the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie “The Running Man.”
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Tagged livesnark
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Coming out
In celebration of National Coming Out Day 2009. As Julia O’Malley pointed out after Sullivan vetoed the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, it’s not laws that change people, but personal relationships. Which is why the most important work I’ve done in the struggle for equal rights for LGBTQ people is simply to live my life, openly, as who I am.
Posted in LGBTQA
Tagged Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, coming out, lgbtq, National Coming Out Day, Wellesley College
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-10
I chose to go writing today. Heading to Side Street. Happy Pride Conference to those there! #
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Tired of kvetching about the Twitter Quitter? Snark about the Governator instead!
Need a clearing of the mind after all the political strafing of Sarah Palin? Join us in going after a really bad Arnold Schwarzenegger movie! And for a bonus, you can also snark about ex-professional wrester, ex-Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura! An afternoon’s entertainment at its very best.
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Tagged humor, Janson Jones, livesnark
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