Moe Lane

Going to have to add two scenes to Frozen Dreams; one tomorrow, and the other… maybe tomorrow, too.  Needed to put more into a particular character, and there’s a location that I never had the good guys visit.  If it was up to them they probably would, although they probably shouldn’t.

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Well, this will be interesting.

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Rice Mineralogical Survey of 1948 – Google Docs

Rice Mineralogical Survey of 1948

[The Day After Ragnarok]

The Rice Mineralogical Survey of 1948 has every resource that Vancouver can throw at it, which admittedly isn’t much; but what’s left of the Canadian government takes the Survey very seriously.  It’s easy enough to issue a decree to get the Albertan oil fields running again; but to do that, the drillers will need (among many other things) metals of all sorts. Steel, copper, titanium, nickel, chromium — and stockpiles are low, after a decade of war and Armageddon.  Worse, global trade isn’t remotely what it used to be. Fortunately, Canada has a wealth of mineral resources; unfortunately, at a minimum known Canadian titanium and nickel deposits are too far away from civilization to exploit properly.

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Take On Me (A-Ha), Deadpool 2 soundtrack

Forced Inspiration Generators – Google Docs

Forced Inspiration Generators

Mad Science at its best! Or maybe at its worst.  Almost certainly at its worst, in fact. There’s just something about that particular interdisciplinary field of study that really, really likes things to go as badly as they can possibly go. And Forced Inspiration Generators can go quite badly, indeed.

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This thread is weird enough that I wish that *I* had written it.

Fun fact: Caracal kittens were bred in the 1980's to be able to communicate with modems. The idea was that they could function as low-cost biological modems for developing nations lacking telecom infrastructure https://t.co/HYnVLV5m32

— ‏بوكيبلينكي (@pookleblinky) January 16, 2019

Yeah, everybody else said There’s already a teaser trailer?, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDnqiTuETkc

I put it in there as a link because the default picture spoils the reveal.  Suffice to say, it’s actually a pretty informative little teaser, there.  Gives a hint of the themes and mood, and even suggests the plot.  I fully understand why people have reservations about Ghostbusters 3, but this is a good trailer.

As I said on Facebook, THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: “A research group from Hull University in England randomly prescribed more than 160 patients either regular cough medicine or a chocolate-based medicine.  Patients on the chocolate-based medication reported improving more quickly than those on regular cough syrup.”  I mean, sure, in seven years or so they’ll come back and tell you that chocolate isn’t good for a cough after all.  But that’s, like, seven years or so from now, man.  In the meantime you’ve got SCIENCE to back your play.

Hrm. I should probably go and make sure that I prevent a cough.  Yes, that would be smart and healthy of me, for certain.

Easy one today; nothing really needed to be added.  But there’s at least one scene that needs to be added, probably tomorrow.  Still.  We’re close to the end of the rough draft to Frozen Dreams. (more…)

Beeswing, Richard Thompson