Out of Ambit
Archive for October, 2006
Dear NASA: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Happy news! Hubble is saved. NASA has just announced that it will run a servicing mission to the ageing space telescope after more than two years of speculation about its fate. NASA administrator Michael Griffin said the last three shuttle missions have provided convincing data that a mission to Hubble can be run safely.
Notes
There are just a couple of things on my mind that (in light of earlier posts and responses) I want to share before I get back to the various pieces of work I need to be doing today. Re whatever might have been going on in the ST:TNG offices as the first season got underway: [...]
One of those headlines you couldn’t make up
Somebody at the BBC deserves a cookie for this one. Transgender MP in toilet fracas Pity, though: I had hoped it was a British MP. Turns out the story hails from Italy. An Italian opposition MP and former showgirl has expressed outrage after meeting a transgender colleague in the parliament’s ladies’ toilets. Elisabetta Gardini, spokeswoman [...]
Writing “Where No One Has Gone Before”
More info about this has been added to the original post, if you’re interested: scroll down, or click here.
Bee One
Well, maybe. Melittosphex burmensis, which has been trapped in amber for the past hundred million years, is the oldest bee fossil ever discovered. It lived in northern Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia about 35 million to 45 million years earlier than the next oldest specimens known to science. Wow…
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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