Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Time	Event
8:31a	A gravitational tractor for towing asteroids An interesting method for deflecting small asteroids One advantage is that this method works just as well on tumbling debris heaps as it does on more robust structures. (9 Comments | Comment on this)
10:43a	What Eddie Likes (Yet Again) He hates to be carried and is only just learning how to sit on laps (We're at the "which end points towards James' face" part of the lessions) but it turns out he adores elevator, where I pick him up and then put him down very quickly. In fact, he follows me around meowing loudly and prodding at me when I stop. (9 Comments | Comment on this)
5:24p	A non-specific book review Oh, god, how do I get the boredom out of my head? Short of a saw and a large spoon, I mean. Just as an FYI, if you want to get out of the smoke of a fire, you don't go downwind of the fire. (8 Comments | Comment on this)
8:48p	The ideal length for SF Does anyone else miss the novella? Back in the 1970s, I thought it was the perfect length for SF [1]: long enough to be satifying, not so long that the author is tempted to reveal too much about the world. I want to see the illusion, not the flats [2]. I'll admit that the main impediment between me and novellas is the fact that the last time I looked at an SF mag was back in the 1990s. 1: Bearing in mind that at the same time that I held that view, I also thought that you could wear stripes with plaid. 2: There was one short where I spent more time looking at the flats than the actors. It wasn't that the show was bad but that I recognized the flats as ones that I had helped paint in a FASS show some years previous. (11 Comments | Comment on this)

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