Matt Mullenix said of the line below: “Journalism: Dead.” ” Alan Parrot, one of the world’s foremost falconers…. “ Steve again: all this is in reaction to a link I couldn’t get but which I have seen plenty similar to the last few days, like this one. There has also been a lot of talk …
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Slowly. Until I tame the voice dictation software graciously given me by a friend the two hardest things to do are typing (five typos a line!)and cramped arthritic handwriting. Small movements are affected more than big ones. Though those lost ground too, I am gaining. A bike provided by another friend and a membership in …
Dragon Taming
Two recent movies feature updated versions of a very old fantasy meme: taming dragons. In both James Cameron’s AVATAR and the more recent DreamWorks picture, How To Train Your Dragon, the protagonists befriend what amount to winged reptiles (or their “Pandoran” equivalents) after intense and well-rendered sequences of the wild animals’ capture and taming. I imagine most falconers will watch these movies with a …
Hurricane Us: a Hasty Screed
No stranger to disaster, Louisiana faces what may be its worst-ever coastal impact in the next 24 hours. By tomorrow, the first of millions of gallons of floating crude oil will wash ashore in Louisiana, with all five Gulf states potentially endangered in the days and weeks ahead. At immediate risk: hundreds of miles of hard-working coastline and hundreds of years of cultural dependence on …
Back Again/ Things to Sell #1
I think I finally got delinked from Facebook– users please tell me if this shows up there! I have some fun & informative things to share but am also trying to install and learn dictation software as though exercise strengthens my body nothing much helps dexterity and typos make me nuts! So first, a few …
Florida Cold Snap
Vladimir Beregovoy writes: “My son came for spring break vacations. He told an interesting story about mass mortality among exotics in Florida. They had a prolonged period of unusually temperatures there as far to the south as Florida Key, about 40 Fahrenheit for a few weeks. As a result at least 90% of huge Southeast …
Tape Recorder (or other recording device?)
Can anyone recommend a VERY CHEAP small portable recorder good enough to take dictation from? I can write large with a soft pencil and slowly and with typos on this machine but one would be useful. Remember, VERY CHEAP (;-))
Tips from the Guardian
The Guardian recently printed a series of ten tips on writing each from a multitude of well- known writers. There must be hundreds, ranging from useful to witty to odd, and you should read them all for amusement if nothing else. Lib typed out a few I found useful below. Hilary MantelWrite a book you’d …
Letter to a young writer
I recently wrote the letter below to an incredibly talented but unhappy young writer who was doubting his abilities. It occurred to me that it had some general applications so I am reproducing it here, slightly modified: First of all, you are NOT a bad writer at all; you may be a brilliant one. What …
Inluential Books (and Writers)
Rod Dreher has a post on “Ten Most Influential Books. I responded after thinking hard and coming up with entries that surprised me a bit, in more or less chronological order: Kipling’s Jungle Books– first read to me by my mother– gave me a lifelong love of the underrated author, and England. Adventures of Sherlock …