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Recent entries
some death-defying species from madagascar, my death defied and her extinction defied, yeah both in one trip - 2009-08-11
the borg - 2009-08-10
appearing soon in your hometown - 2009-08-10
tweet - 2009-08-09
don't be talking about me in front of my face, yall - 2009-08-06
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By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.
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A bibliography of my published books and stories.
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Here's my card-counting FAQ. |
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| A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!!
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates
on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit
the localroger diary. |
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| Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress. |
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| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill blog by Mark Bittner about feral Cherry-Headed Conures in San Francisco. |
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when 20,000 pounds of red pin oak falls on your house
2003-07-06 - 4:23 p.m.
Here is the last picture that BF took of the flooding back yard while
standing in the aviary. You can see the protective hardware cloth that
he added beneath the mosquito netting, so that when chewy parrots got out of
their flight cages, they wouldn't munch a hole in the screen.
© 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
He then walked back into the house and was walking through the living
room. I was standing behind the kitchen counter. There was a huge
slamming sound, and all the lights and various house noises like
the air-conditioner and refrigerator suddenly went dead. BF reported
that he felt as if he were being shoved forward toward the kitchen.
What he felt was one of the branches of the tree -- just the very tip --
pushing him as it fell through the ceiling. He is very lucky to be
alive and unhurt. These branches impaled the ceiling of a house. It
is too horrible to think of what they could have done to a human being
standing in the wrong place.
© 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved
This is a four person hot tub smashed beneath this huge
oak tree:
© 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved
This is the tree where it smashed into the house. As you can
see, the tree is actually much larger than the house. We escaped
total annihilation because our house is some distance away from the
root of the tree; in fact, when I called people to tell them what had
happened, several people asked, "What oak tree?" because they knew
that there was no tree of this size actually on our property.
© 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved
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