You know how in all those memes and email forwards they always ask you what kind of car you would buy if money were no object? I never have an answer because I don't care about engines or gears or cylinders or whatever.
But now, finally, someone has created the one I've been looking for!
Also, for the Firefly fans out there, the flying vehicle that they take to the payroll job in Serenity, isn't that called the Mule? What an interesting bit of symmetry (if you read the article, you'll see what I mean). Unless the creator is a Firefly fan, which is possible, I guess.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Interview Questions for Twench
Interview Meme Rules are as follows: You comment on this entry requesting an interview. I respond with five questions. The questions will theoretically be tailored to you based on what I know of you (or want to know). You copy and paste those questions into your own journal, and write the answers, along with these rules. Anyone wanting an interview from you continues the game by requesting an interview from you.
1) Do you remember how/when we first met, like the specific moment? If so, do tell.
2) What year in your life would you live over again and why?
3) If you were a woman, which Ghostbuster (Egon, Ray, Peter or Winston) would you be most attracted to and why?
4) What do you miss most about your life pre-kid(s)?
5) What's the best dream you've ever had? (I mean an actual dream versus a dream like an aspriational goal--this would be like the time in high school when I had a tantalizingly short dream in which I was kissing Dylan from 90210...and then my alarm went off.)
Bonus Question! Why are the archives not working on my blog? Do you know? : )
Anyone else want an interview? Let me know! I'm happy to oblige--I love finding out new things about people. : ) Plus, I'm really, really nosy.
1) Do you remember how/when we first met, like the specific moment? If so, do tell.
2) What year in your life would you live over again and why?
3) If you were a woman, which Ghostbuster (Egon, Ray, Peter or Winston) would you be most attracted to and why?
4) What do you miss most about your life pre-kid(s)?
5) What's the best dream you've ever had? (I mean an actual dream versus a dream like an aspriational goal--this would be like the time in high school when I had a tantalizingly short dream in which I was kissing Dylan from 90210...and then my alarm went off.)
Bonus Question! Why are the archives not working on my blog? Do you know? : )
Anyone else want an interview? Let me know! I'm happy to oblige--I love finding out new things about people. : ) Plus, I'm really, really nosy.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Haven't disappeared off the face of the earth, but I'm trying to finish up the last minor edits on Zara II, titled Eye of the Beholder. : ) I'm down to reviewing each "that" to see if it can be taken out. That kind of detailed and mind-numbing work. Should be done by tomorrow! Then I'll have a chance to write a full update.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Interview Questions from Twench (Ed)
Interview Meme Rules are as follows: You comment on this entry requesting an interview. I respond with five questions. The questions will theoretically be tailored to you based on what I know of you (or want to know). You copy and paste those questions into your own journal, and write the answers, along with these rules. Anyone wanting an interview from you continues the game by requesting an interview from you.
1. You awake to find yourself in a science fiction novel/movie/tv show. What does the universe look like (popular TV show or a made up one) and who are you (yourself, some known character, some random red shirt schmuck)?
Dude, good question! If it didn't make me a complete ego-maniac, I'd love to *visit* the world in The Silver Spoon. See them all and talk to them. Have a conversation that could be actually be heard somewhere else besides inside my head. And while it's temping to wish myself into a position to get my hands on Caelan, he and Zara belong together (in this humble author's opinion, but they may not agree) and besides, he would know the difference. Zara has a lot of tough stuff to deal and when confronted with it, she would not curl up in the fetal position and cry...like I would.
So instead, I'd wish to be a recently awakened drone* with super powers (telekinesis or mind manipulation...I can't decide!) and waaaay less responsibility. Also, I'd be super hot. : )
*This refers to events in book two, which Ed has read, and I hope the rest of you will be able to read soon!
However, I must confess that for many of my teen years, I harbored a deep fantasy of being an ensign on the Enterprise. Some of the first stories I wrote were to this effect, fan-fiction before I even knew what it was. And before you ask, it was Kirk's Enterprise. That was the only place where a lowly, young ensign might catch a captain's attention...unless I managed to save the ship from nanites or something on Picard's Enterprise.
2. When the Silver Spoon is made into a movie, who would you want to play the main characters?
Thank you for saying "when" and not "if." *grin* I'd like Zara to be played by an actual redhead rather than an actress with dyed hair. So, if they were casting right now, I'd want them to talk to Bryce Dallas Howard, looks-wise. But only if she has the spunk and attitude to pull it off.
As for Caelan, well, that's something I've vowed to keep quiet about. But it's not that hard to figure out if you know me and what actors I like. : )
3. What songs on your iPOD do you wish you had never loaded?
Ha, there are lots of them that I've heard so many times, I'm sick of them. But the first song that popped into my head with this question is "I Want Your Sex, Pt.2" by George Michael. I didn't even know there was a Pt. 2. This is not the song I'm familiar with and wanted for my 80s collection. I hate Pt. 2.
4. First to have a child: You or Susan?
Hmm. Tough call. Susan is thirteen years younger than me. She's got four years of college, probably a couple of years of dating after that and then marriage...
I'm thirty-one now so...
Michael. : )
5. Are you a god?
Uh, no...Wait, wait, I mean yes!
1. You awake to find yourself in a science fiction novel/movie/tv show. What does the universe look like (popular TV show or a made up one) and who are you (yourself, some known character, some random red shirt schmuck)?
Dude, good question! If it didn't make me a complete ego-maniac, I'd love to *visit* the world in The Silver Spoon. See them all and talk to them. Have a conversation that could be actually be heard somewhere else besides inside my head. And while it's temping to wish myself into a position to get my hands on Caelan, he and Zara belong together (in this humble author's opinion, but they may not agree) and besides, he would know the difference. Zara has a lot of tough stuff to deal and when confronted with it, she would not curl up in the fetal position and cry...like I would.
So instead, I'd wish to be a recently awakened drone* with super powers (telekinesis or mind manipulation...I can't decide!) and waaaay less responsibility. Also, I'd be super hot. : )
*This refers to events in book two, which Ed has read, and I hope the rest of you will be able to read soon!
However, I must confess that for many of my teen years, I harbored a deep fantasy of being an ensign on the Enterprise. Some of the first stories I wrote were to this effect, fan-fiction before I even knew what it was. And before you ask, it was Kirk's Enterprise. That was the only place where a lowly, young ensign might catch a captain's attention...unless I managed to save the ship from nanites or something on Picard's Enterprise.
2. When the Silver Spoon is made into a movie, who would you want to play the main characters?
Thank you for saying "when" and not "if." *grin* I'd like Zara to be played by an actual redhead rather than an actress with dyed hair. So, if they were casting right now, I'd want them to talk to Bryce Dallas Howard, looks-wise. But only if she has the spunk and attitude to pull it off.
As for Caelan, well, that's something I've vowed to keep quiet about. But it's not that hard to figure out if you know me and what actors I like. : )
3. What songs on your iPOD do you wish you had never loaded?
Ha, there are lots of them that I've heard so many times, I'm sick of them. But the first song that popped into my head with this question is "I Want Your Sex, Pt.2" by George Michael. I didn't even know there was a Pt. 2. This is not the song I'm familiar with and wanted for my 80s collection. I hate Pt. 2.
4. First to have a child: You or Susan?
Hmm. Tough call. Susan is thirteen years younger than me. She's got four years of college, probably a couple of years of dating after that and then marriage...
I'm thirty-one now so...
Michael. : )
5. Are you a god?
Uh, no...Wait, wait, I mean yes!
Monday, January 15, 2007
"If found, please return to Earth."
I love this. I want them for myself. I also think they'd be an awesome promotional giveaway item. Not that I could afford to give away very many of them! : )
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Okay, all you clever people out there...
I'm toying with a new (free trial offer) of a website. (Ed, I checked it out and it does not seem hard to cancel, so I decided to give it a whirl...we'll see what happens!)
On the home page, beneath my name, it has a place for a tagline. This would be the spot where Linnea's website says something like "internet home of RITA-winning sci-fi romance author Linnea Sinclair." Obviously, I do not have such a claim to fame--don't I wish, though!--nor do I have the ability to limit it sci-fi romance as the first in my mystery series is coming out next year--yea!!!
So, I've been trying to think of SOMETHING to say there. My stories do have common themes, regardless of genre or subgenre. They feature strong heroines in varying degrees of kickass *grin*, forbidden love (one way or another), and the idea that you have to accept yourself for who you are before you can really find happiness.
But then again, maybe I don't need anything as a tagline. Maybe that would just confuse the issue.
What do you guys think?
On the home page, beneath my name, it has a place for a tagline. This would be the spot where Linnea's website says something like "internet home of RITA-winning sci-fi romance author Linnea Sinclair." Obviously, I do not have such a claim to fame--don't I wish, though!--nor do I have the ability to limit it sci-fi romance as the first in my mystery series is coming out next year--yea!!!
So, I've been trying to think of SOMETHING to say there. My stories do have common themes, regardless of genre or subgenre. They feature strong heroines in varying degrees of kickass *grin*, forbidden love (one way or another), and the idea that you have to accept yourself for who you are before you can really find happiness.
But then again, maybe I don't need anything as a tagline. Maybe that would just confuse the issue.
What do you guys think?
Monday, January 08, 2007
They're heeeeeeere!
Greg found this article from the Chicago Tribune for me last week...it's so cool!
UFO Spotted Over O'Hare Airport
Here's the follow-up article, though you may need to register to read this one.
There were lots of questions (and jokes) about why the UFO didn't land, what with the convenient landing strips and all nearby. However, I prefer to think that the aliens were just observing. Ha! And if you don't get that, please let me know. I have a book you should read. *silly grin*
UFO Spotted Over O'Hare Airport
Here's the follow-up article, though you may need to register to read this one.
There were lots of questions (and jokes) about why the UFO didn't land, what with the convenient landing strips and all nearby. However, I prefer to think that the aliens were just observing. Ha! And if you don't get that, please let me know. I have a book you should read. *silly grin*
A case of the Mondays
Saw an accident this morning. Despite the length of my commute, this is the only one I actually saw happening. Worse yet, I could see it coming and there was nothing I could do about it.
I was waiting to get into the left hand turn lane on Rt. 60/83. Unfortunately, the turn lane was full, so the regular lane was now filling up with those of us waiting to turn. On the opposite side of the street, a small line of cars had developed, people trying to turn left into the Mundelein municipal building parking lot to my right. Rt. 60/83 has two lanes on both sides at this point. So while the inside lane of my side of the road was stopped, waiting for all of us lefties to get out of the way, the right lane on my side was moving just fine.
The driver of the mini-van in front of me was trying to be kind and allowed a space between herself and the car in front of her for those who were waiting to turn into the municipal building parking lot. I saw this and groaned. "Accident waiting to happen," I even muttered, never actually believing it would really happen because I'd seen this hundreds of times, always close calls. Like shave the paint off your passenger side door close, but no real contact.
Also, this particular thing is one of my pet peeves. It's dangerous. According to Illinois law, you are required to not block intersections and driveways as marked, otherwise no worries. People who, in trying to help, leave you the gap to pull across their lane and then the one next to theirs cause accidents because you, as the turning driver, can't see around their vehicle to see if anyone else is coming. I've even heard the police warning against doing this. You think you're trying to be nice, but then something like this morning happens.
The guy turning left into the parking lot edged out little by little, but he couldn't see around the mini-van. Finally, after inching forward several times, he decided to go for it...just as a bright yellow H2 came barreling down the open lane, after all there was no back-up in his lane, no reason to slow down.
No screeching brakes, no time. H2 mashed into the side of the sedan, spinning it sideways. Glass popped, that was the loudest and clearest thing I can hear, and it shot out from the sedan in this bright glittering arc. Sedan finally came to a stop when the back end collided with a sign for the municipal building. And holy sh*t, somebody's Monday just went to hell in a handbasket.
Guy in the H2 was okay, got out immediately, looking severely pissed. Guy in the sedan looked okay inside the car--probably because he was hit on the passenger side, thank God.
Whew. It was pretty awful, worse for them than for me, obviously. But how rare is it to be in a situation like that where you can see the bad thing coming so clearly, whole seconds before the two people who will be most affected are even aware that this day is anything but ordinary?
Do you think that's a small taste of what it would be like to be God, seeing the yellow H2 heading straight for sedan-guy, but unable to interfere--other than that tingling little warning that should have been sounding in sedan-guy's brain--thanks to free will? *shudder* Not a job I'd like, thanks.
I was waiting to get into the left hand turn lane on Rt. 60/83. Unfortunately, the turn lane was full, so the regular lane was now filling up with those of us waiting to turn. On the opposite side of the street, a small line of cars had developed, people trying to turn left into the Mundelein municipal building parking lot to my right. Rt. 60/83 has two lanes on both sides at this point. So while the inside lane of my side of the road was stopped, waiting for all of us lefties to get out of the way, the right lane on my side was moving just fine.
The driver of the mini-van in front of me was trying to be kind and allowed a space between herself and the car in front of her for those who were waiting to turn into the municipal building parking lot. I saw this and groaned. "Accident waiting to happen," I even muttered, never actually believing it would really happen because I'd seen this hundreds of times, always close calls. Like shave the paint off your passenger side door close, but no real contact.
Also, this particular thing is one of my pet peeves. It's dangerous. According to Illinois law, you are required to not block intersections and driveways as marked, otherwise no worries. People who, in trying to help, leave you the gap to pull across their lane and then the one next to theirs cause accidents because you, as the turning driver, can't see around their vehicle to see if anyone else is coming. I've even heard the police warning against doing this. You think you're trying to be nice, but then something like this morning happens.
The guy turning left into the parking lot edged out little by little, but he couldn't see around the mini-van. Finally, after inching forward several times, he decided to go for it...just as a bright yellow H2 came barreling down the open lane, after all there was no back-up in his lane, no reason to slow down.
No screeching brakes, no time. H2 mashed into the side of the sedan, spinning it sideways. Glass popped, that was the loudest and clearest thing I can hear, and it shot out from the sedan in this bright glittering arc. Sedan finally came to a stop when the back end collided with a sign for the municipal building. And holy sh*t, somebody's Monday just went to hell in a handbasket.
Guy in the H2 was okay, got out immediately, looking severely pissed. Guy in the sedan looked okay inside the car--probably because he was hit on the passenger side, thank God.
Whew. It was pretty awful, worse for them than for me, obviously. But how rare is it to be in a situation like that where you can see the bad thing coming so clearly, whole seconds before the two people who will be most affected are even aware that this day is anything but ordinary?
Do you think that's a small taste of what it would be like to be God, seeing the yellow H2 heading straight for sedan-guy, but unable to interfere--other than that tingling little warning that should have been sounding in sedan-guy's brain--thanks to free will? *shudder* Not a job I'd like, thanks.
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