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Oh, To Be At Thule Today
I look back with fondness at the year I spent at Thule Air Base, Greenland — in fact, today I wore my “Thule Tracking Station” hat* — but it looks as if the path of this morning’s total solar eclipse...
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Ten Years Ago Today, I Was NOT in the Pentagon …
… although I was supposed to be. I had been in the Pentagon on September 10, 2001, after all, and was scheduled to go back the next day. I’d spent part of September 10 in the Secretary of Defense...
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Dragon*Con 2011 Pictures, Part 1: My Friends
It’s hard to believe Dragon*Con was over a week ago already. My life is very blurry these days, so it’s good that I have pictures to look at. The best thing about conventions, even huge ones like...
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Dragon*Con 2011 Pictures, Part 2: Filk
(In case you missed them: Dragon*Con Pictures, Part 1: My Friends.) This year I’ve discovered that I really enjoy filk (genre-related folk music) and filking (playing and singing same). Part of that is...
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Last Titan-IIIB Launch … and the Latest Asimov's
Twenty-five years ago today — February 12, 1987 — a Titan-IIIB launched from Vandenberg AFB carrying a Satellite Data System (SDS) spacecraft. (Undated Titan-IIIB [34B] launch. Image from Lee...
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The 'Space Warfare Forum' is in a Coma — Should I Resuscitate It, or Pull the...
Most people don’t know that the Space Warfare Forum exists. (Actually, most people don’t care, but even most of the ones who might care don’t know.) The fact is, the Space Warfare Forum has been...
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New Song Debut: ‘Tauntauns to Glory’ [video]
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of appearing with several other central NC authors at the Orange County Library in Hillsborough, for a combined reading called “Winter Tales.” Here’s a YouTube video of...
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Blogging the New CD: W is for Winter
This is the final post in a series about the songs on my new CD, Distorted Vision. The most intense winter I ever experienced was at Thule Air Base, Greenland. I was stationed there from July 2000 to...
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