http://www.adampknave.com Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:07:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not really around, probably, until Tuesday. Lost in working on a new novel and also needing to do a bunch of other scripting and such. So have a great weekend and go to a party for me. Fo' shizzle, mah nizzles. http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/03/poof-2/ (via ABCnews) Furry Convention keeps Mets awake. PITTSUBURGH -- Playing an afternoon game, the Mets might be a little tired because of The Furries. The Mets, who played in Pittsburgh for a weather make-up game on Thursday, stayed at the same hotel as the Furries Convention. Lots of Mets players were ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/03/baseball-headline-of-the-year/ Remember Star Trek II? You know, Wrath of Khan? Well there's this scene that people love to laugh at. Maybe you've heard of it. And I see people of all types going on about what a ham Shatner is and how he overplays that yell and how ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/02/khaaaaaaaaaaaan/ And now a bunch of ducks going up a down escalator: http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/02/ducks-escalator-joy/ So maybe some of you noticed - Farscape vanished on DVD recently. ADV lost the license to produce the DVDs (Lion's Gate has the license for Peacekeeper War and that stays) so the DVDs vanished and had no home. It's also the shows 10th anniversary this year. ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/01/farscape-back-on-dvd-in-nov-press-release-details/ Yesterday I gave a lot of thought to some things I would like to own. Today I am reversing engines and looking at things I most certainly do not want. The same rules apply, however: * Nothing bigger or more complex than I could use myself and no vehicles. ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/01/5-science-fiction-y-things-i-dont-want-to-own/ So what's been up. Let's see. Oh, right! I go to the dayjob and then I go home and write. And then I read a bit and generally go to bed. Except for the rare night I hang out with friends. Yeah, that's about my ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/07/01/life-and-books/ So I was thinking what absurd tech would I want, if I could have it? I tried to impost a few limits on my list. Here are the limits, totally self-imposed: * Nothing bigger or more complex than I could use myself and no vehicles. No Death Star, ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/06/30/5-science-fiction-y-things-i-want-to-own/ I remember the day me and Peoke got in his car and decided to for a drive to ... somewhere. That was how we said it, each time. ...Somewhere. That pause inherent in the destination, as if the travel itself imposed on the phrasing. We relished it, ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/06/30/the-long-drive-to-nowhere/ (via Earth Times) Xanten, Germany - A bolt of lightning struck a re-enactment of Roman times in Germany on Saturday, injuring 13 people. Thousands of people from Germany and the Netherlands had gathered amid the excavated ruins of the Roman town of Colonia Ulpia Traiana on the lower Rhine to ... http://www.adampknave.com/2009/06/29/kraka-thooom/