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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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April blunderstorms and good old Floppy
2003-04-08 - 10:45 a.m.
I woke up to a man on the radio saying that yesterday 6,000 houses in St. Tammany Parish lost power. I ran over, turned off the alarm, went back to sleep. The torrential thunderstorm continued apace. There was no sleeping late for the Chickadees though. When I did get up, I could see them going back and forth in all but the worst of the rain.
I didn't want to risk turning on the computer while the thunder and lightning was at its peak, so I got started on some spring cleaning. It never goes very fast, because it's more like an archeological expedition than the brutal earth-moving bulldozer operation that's really required. I stopped and pondered the following items encountered along the way:
- Tax receipts from 1989. I think if the IRS hasn't questioned them by now, they've missed their chance.
- An outline for a story by Roger about a far future race of beings descended from sheep, which I suppose puts them in a direct line of descent from H.L. Mencken's Americanus boobus.
- A face only a mother could love:
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This torn-up thing is the stuffed toy I had as a baby and then as a child pretty much up until the double digit ages. Hmmm. As a matter of fact, it is the stuffed toy I still have, since instead of tossing the pitiable beast, I placed him in safekeeping inside a cozy hatbox.
- Some old diaries and an old novel (probably more novella length) that I wrote as a teen-ager. Maybe I'll read them later but not today because...
...I just found out that today is half price day on Ebay, so I suppose I'd better get off my duff and get some items listed. I hope this doesn't mean the end of the free listing days. There is a big difference between half price and free, especially in this economy when people are willing to pay a fraction of what they used to.Let's just hope the lights stay on so I can stay on the computer for awhile. a bit after 2 P.M.
It looks like the worst of the storm has passed. I was wrong about my White-Throated Sparrows migrating. There is at least one tan morph picking on the ground right now.
a short while later
A white morph and the tan morph are now out there together. The white morph's yellow spots are glowing.
around 4 P.M.
Female Indigo Bunting on the ground eating discarded finch seed. I want a male!
Hummingbird Report: A gorgeous adult male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird.
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