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After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed.
And Now You Do
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25:18, A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
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Science Fiction: ''The Ice Limit''
by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
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Published: 2000; Pages: 449; Rating: Decent
These two guys have paired up to write a half dozen or so decent science fiction books and a couple of real good ones. They wrote “The Relic” about a monster that gets loose in the Chicago Natural History Museum and also one about the “Oak Pit” on Oak Island that has baffled treasure hunters for years. I think there is a book review floating around here somewhere about the latter one. A sequel was written after “The Relic” called “Reliquary.” I haven’t read that one yet, but it is sitting on my shelves somewhere and will come down some day.
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Posted by webmaster on Sunday, November 21 @ 18:32:03 EST (907 reads)
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Science Fiction: "The Far Call"
by Gordon R. Dickson
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Published: 1973; Pages: 371; Rating: Fine
This is a real old book I read a long long time ago in a land far away and just pulled it down out of the library again. Not sure why, except real good hard science fiction is a bit rare, and this is one of the old classics. You have to really wander around a Barnes and Nobles for several hours these days to find a jewel like this one. It seems more authors tend to churn out many more books in the "fantasy" category these days than in the true vein of science fiction. When you think about it for a minute, maybe it is because science fiction is based upon science and therefore requires some knowledge of science? Where as the requirement for fantasy is to purely have an imagination that can create monsters with horns and far off planets with Amazonian women that rule galaxies with amazing bodies and mind control.
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Posted by Webmaster on Saturday, October 23 @ 10:51:17 EDT (1095 reads)
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Science Fiction: ''The Return''
by Buzz Aldrin & John Barnes
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Published: 2000; Pages: 301; Rating: Poor
Buzz Aldrin was quite an astronaut, and he has many stories to tell, but his talent for telling a story is a little bit lacking in this particular book. I picked this book up off the $4.95 pile at Barnes & Noble one day and I guess the price was an indication it was not selling very well. Plus it had not appeared anywhere on the bestseller lists and I had never heard of the book. Not a good sign, but every now and then you can come across a little jewel in these discard piles. This one was just not one of them. His name caught my eye and it was science fiction, but it was not a well written book and many parts of it were so farfetched that it might have been better categorized as fantasy rather than good hard science fiction. Hard science fiction that is based upon scientific studies, fact, and prophesies are great books and difficult to find. Especially since the decline of Arthur C. Clarke and the passing of Isaac Asimov. Ray Bradbury does not write anything any more and I am not even sure he is still alive.
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Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, October 10 @ 18:25:22 EDT (856 reads)
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Science Fiction: ''01-01-00''
by R.J. Pineiro
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Published: 1999; Pages: 320; Rating: Decent
Here is an interesting one about an end of the century Y2K event. You know what that is don't you? Where all the software programs that use only two digits for the year will go from "99" (1999) to "00" (2000). Going from year 99 to year 0 then screws up equalities and who is "less than" and who is "more than" when doing data work. This kind of stuff makes computers go haywire and some had concerns it does not trigger nuclear alarms and mistaken missile launches. Most of the apprehension though surrounded the financial markets. Does that make sense? Probably not.
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Posted by Webmaster on Friday, October 08 @ 17:59:24 EDT (921 reads)
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 I. Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of
its situation.
Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He
loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to
look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per
second per second takes over.
II. Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter
intervenes suddenly.
Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on foot, cartoon
characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone
pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely.
Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the
stooge's surcease.
III. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation
conforming to its perimeter.
Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the
speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless
cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through
the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The
threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.
-- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion", June 1980
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