Dodging calls April 29, 2009
Posted by JSM in Musings, Technology.Tags: geek, hermit, Technology
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I was just thinking about the good old days when you could dodge people by just not answering a phone. You didn’t want to talk to someone, don’t pick up the phone. These days with cell phones, voice mail, email, twitter, blogs, GPS and the list goes on, it is far too easy for someone to find you and get in contact with you. Don’t get me wrong, I love technology and am one of the biggest tech-geeks you’re ever going to meet. If it’s new and shiny, I want it. There are just times when I go into hermit mode and don’t want to be found. Not that I feel this way right at this moment.
Twitter. How have I been without it for so long? April 26, 2009
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I finally started Twittering, Tweeting? I’m still learning the ropes. I went on at first to find out if there was any talk about why my favourite forum was down. Sure enough, there was lots of chatter. It is a service that is, at the same time, useful and useless. I think that’s what makes it so much fun.
I have no idea how I have been without it for so long!
You can find me here.
Intergalactic Gazette has been released April 22, 2009
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Intergalactic Gazette cover art
Madeleine Hart’s first novel Intergalactic Gazette has been released and is currently available through Trafford Publishing.
I am really excited for Madeleine and can’t wait to get my copy!
Robert J. Sawyer’s WAKE Launch Party! April 15, 2009
Posted by JSM in Writing, sci-fi.Tags: Bakka, novel, Robert J Sawyer, sci-fi, Toronto, Wake
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The Toronto Launch Party for Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer’s latest novel Wake, the first book in an exciting new trilogy, is going to be held on April 30, 2009 at the Dominion on Queen Restaurant and Pub. Doors open at 7:00pm and books will be available for sale at the event, thanks to the folks at Bakka Phoenix Books. For more info you can contact Bakka at 416-963-9993.
So Long Starlog April 14, 2009
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Walking up to the mall to buy the latest issue of Starlog was a monthly pilgrimage for me. I would usually have the Medialog read on the walk back home, with the latest info about my favourite television shows, as well as upcoming movies and comics. There was also the Film Fantasy Calendar that would tell you when Empire Strikes Back was due to be released, so you could start counting the months.
Next, I would sit and read the Gamelog, Booklog, Videolog and Communications, soaking up all the latest info and reading the comics. I onced had a letter published in Starlog. It was the first time I saw my words and name in print.
Then it was on to the Fan Network and Convention listings. I went to my first Trek convention after reading about it in Starlog.
The articles were the real meat of the issue though. In those pages you could find anything from artist concept drawings of this ship called a Battlestar, to an interview with George Lucas for a new TV series about a Young Indiana Jones. One of my favourite interviews was with a young man named Joe Copeland, who was a stand-in for Mark Hamill during shooting of Return of the Jedi.
Even though it has been years since I bought an issue, more because of cost than a lack of desire to read what was on the horizon in the world of science fiction, it is a sad day for me as well to say goodbye to a piece of nostalgia, but more than that, something that helped fuel my sense of wonder.
