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An Upsidedown World

Friday, May 8, 2009

I’m always looking for new twists on old themes.
And, frankly, the whole “alternate Earth” thing is a very old theme. But, I have to admit, it’s one that I can’t get away from in my own head. One of the alternate Earths that I contemplate on a regular basis is an inverted Earth. An Earth [...]

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Happy Birthday, Bill.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Today is William S. Burroughs‘ birthday.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in 1914, he is best known for having written Naked Lunch, which was later turned into a movie that starred Peter Weller. Burroughs started writing while attending Harvard, but when a piece of his was rejected by Esquire magazine, he was so [...]

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Happy Birthday, Bram!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is Bram Stoker’s birthday.
If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He wrote other books as well, and was quite well known in his own time for his work in [...]

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S dniom razhdjenia!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

No, that title’s not a mistake, it’s an homage.
Today is the birthday of novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Though he was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on this day in 1899 Nabokov and his family had to flee Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He sailed to America with his family in 1940, arriving in New York City [...]

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Happy Birthday, Scrabble!

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Today is the birthday of Alfred M. Butts, the man who invented the game Scrabble.
Butts was born on this day in 1899, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He trademarked the game in 1949, but his game didn’t sell very well. Only a few thousand copies of the game were sold, until 1950s when the president of [...]

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Happy Birthday, Count!

Thursday, November 8, 2007

According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is Bram Stoker’s birthday.
If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He wrote other books as well, and was quite well known in his own time for his work in [...]

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One Publishers and Two Writer’s Birthdays

Friday, September 21, 2007

According to Writer’s Almanac we have three birthdays to celebrate today.
First, there’s novelist Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, who was born in Bromley, England in1866. According to the note I got from Writer’s Almanac, Wells had a job writing biology textbooks until he developed a respiratory illness in his late 20s. Since he thought he didn’t [...]

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Fractal Terrains Real World Data

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Okay, here’s some real data for ProFantasy’s Fractal Terrains.
Been looking for Fractal Terrains Real World Data? Well, look no further!
I got tired of everyone asking for this on the Profantasy CC2-l list and thought I’d take a minute while I’m getting my chemotherapy to import the ETOPO2 data and save it as a Fractal [...]

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