| Steering |
[Jun. 19th, 2008|02:39 pm] |
Doctors will soon be able to steer the little cameras you swallow for a peek inside your innards.
I wrote about it here for the Technology Review. |
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| I knew it was a virus |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|10:13 pm] |
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I saw that out-of-character wall post with a link on Facebook & I just knew it was a virus. Since I can't log on, looks like it was a highly-successful virus too. |
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| For Writers |
[Jun. 5th, 2008|12:14 pm] |
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Hi Kate; Could you please post this information for other writers to read? We do hope you will enter again this year. This is the 100th anniversary of Galbraith's birth. Hope we might see you at the gala too if you are back home in Canada. Hello Fiction Writers! If you are a Canadian author who would like to make some jingle for your pocket; have a good story to tell and would love the prestige of winning the John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award in the year where we are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Galbraith’s birth . . . then check out our website www.johnkennethgalbraithliteraryaward.ca Notice the quality of our judges; what the 2007 winning author took home and see the photos that show what great fun we had at our first gala presentation ceremony. Authors flew in from British Columbia and were billeted in local homes. Friendships were forged; ideas exchanged and readings from JKG’s many stories were read aloud and enjoyed by all. We would love to read your entries and meet you at this very special gala! Criteria, deadline and entry forms are available on line, for anything else just send me an e-mail at jennyphillips@golden.net |
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| The Dry Spell is Over |
[May. 19th, 2008|05:25 pm] |
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After a publication dry spell, I have a piece up at Technology Review! |
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| What An Idea |
[Apr. 17th, 2008|06:18 am] |
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If I were going to be in Toronto on May 31st or June 15th, I'd be here. |
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| And I thought a 12-hour delay was bad |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|07:10 am] |
You know, Air Canada used to be a better airline to to fly with kids than Lufthansa.
Well, the 12-hour delay on my way from Frankfurt to Toronto was inconvenient, but at least the crew and ground staff made up for it by being nice.
The flight from Toronto to Frankfurt was unpleasant.
One thing that I have learned is that if there are no baggage carts at departures, it's a bad sign.
The overbooked flight resulted in my three seats, that I bought in January, being reassigned all over the plane. After watching the flight attendant mistreat the ground staff who was helping us board, then waiting by the emergency exits for the flight attendants to ask people traveling alone to move for us so that I could sit with my two small children (it took a long time because several people refused to move), and then being served unidentifiable green slime for dinner, my opinion has changed.
The fact that they still haven't found our missing baggage after 24 hours is just gravy on the garbage. |
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| One Day Left! |
[Mar. 15th, 2008|01:30 am] |
It's done. Well, at least the e-book version is done. I want to see what kind of response I can get by tomorrow. Depending on that response, I'll add another ten columns and send it out to traditional publishers. Please take a look at the first chapter and leave a rating at Book Habit.
Unfortunately, I wasn't the most organized author in the world, so I didn't submit this in time to get a lot of votes in the contest. Hopefully, I have enough friends to make a little wave |
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| Publication Drought Ends |
[Nov. 29th, 2007|06:44 am] |
It feels like I haven't published anything in months. Mostly, that's because I haven't. That drought ends today with my piece about Kinetic Microgenerators at Technology Review. Special thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aminotlunifor saving me with a comment I could quote. |
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| Frustration |
[Sep. 30th, 2007|03:40 pm] |
I always thought, by the time I was 35, some things in life would go smoothly.
Nope. |
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| I won! |
[Sep. 6th, 2007|06:19 am] |
In this life, I don't need anything but a lot of friends. Thanks to you and your comments, I won the Artist Hideout contest!
http://www.artisthideout.com/and-the-winner-is/
Let me know if I can ever help you out in the same way. |
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| The Philosophical Kick |
[Sep. 3rd, 2007|08:52 am] |
I am tired of mourning the end of democracy.
I am tired of ignoring the fact that capitalism pushed human rights out of the marriage bed and went it's own way without as much as a formal divorce.
I am sorry that the wall fell the way it did, replacing the quest for freedom with only disappointed greed.
I am sorry that we missed a philosophical opportunity to create a new model that could have given some morality to moderate all the changes we have experienced.
I am sorry that the only counterpoint we have as a result is some terrible fundamentalism that defies the logic and compassion intended by religion.
I am sorry that my attention span is too short, my intellect too limited, my passion too easily challenged and my pockets too shallow for me to write something deeper, more meaningful and more convincing on this topic. |
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| Two others were no-shows |
[Sep. 1st, 2007|11:23 pm] |
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11 children & lots of sugar in one small apartment for 2 and a half hours. |
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| Naturally, I have a selection of complaints |
[Aug. 31st, 2007|06:48 am] |
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I just can't raise my ire enough to rant these days. |
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| Dread & Bureaucracy |
[Aug. 28th, 2007|05:07 pm] |
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Tax man. School preparation exams. Pension contributions. This is not fun. |
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