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Signal glut.

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I was just saying, last night, that I could use some more signal.

SETI@Home is beginning to suffer from an infoglut. The telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico was just upgraded. And from the sounds of this article, it was UPGRADED. To follow suit, so has the SETI@home program.

I’ve been an enthusiast for a while, and this is more reason than ever to get off my butt and get my old computers (soon of the SETI@Home Graveyard) out of storage.

They need more people. More computers. More processing power. It doesn’t matter how old your computer is. If you’ve done this before, you know how simple it is – just a screen saver running when you’re not at your computer for Windows and MacOS users. If you own ancient hardware that’s collecting dust, a net install of Debian, with a quick install of SSH (for remote access) and the SETI program, and your old computer is actually doing something worthwhile.

A Pentium 1 system, 233 mhz with 192 megs of RAM can crunch a SETI packet in an average of just under 4 days. The system’s deadline to crunch a packet? 30 days.

Worth it, in my opinion. If you have old machines lying around, and you want to get a SETI Graveyard of your own going, just let me know. I’m happy to help out.

Weekly Word Count

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Holy cats, writerly update, but no new word count. That will have to come later.

– I’m going to ConVocation this weekend. It’s very, very likely that the last of the Squirrel King badge ribbons will be given out. Get one while you can! :)

– The first issue – two chapters – of the fiction behind the Steven comic have been posted on the Short Fiction page. Yes, the comic book project is still going on. If I have to draw it in stick figures when I’m 60 years old, it’ll happen. :)

– High Voltage ConFusion pics have been posted on my Picasa page. I really need to turn off the automatic light correction on my phone’s camera, as it tends to give a yellow tinge inside of hotel rooms.

– I will be bringing some bookmarks for Goblin books to ConVocation. READ GOBLIN BOOKS NOW! I’ll be setting some out on the flyer table, and giving one to anyone who asks.

– I think I’ve corrected all of the errors on my writery web page. Of course, this means that someone will find something I missed. If you do, please point it out. :)

Sleepy Nikki

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Sleepy Nikki
Originally uploaded by Childe

Be overwhelmed by the cute! Old Town Diner played host to a sleepy Nikki and a sleepy Skippy on Sunday morning. Not to mention burgeoning plague. Food and cofee/pop helped us a bit, company a bit more. I think chicken soup is needed for all.

Watching the price.

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While in the Borders in Brighton yesterday, I couldn’t help but notice their Title Sleuth kiosks. After finding out that The Remembrance was available for special order at Schuler’s (who, as far as I know, uses Borders as a supplier), I decided to find out if it was available there.

Now, because Ingram, my distributor, is affiliated with Barnes and Noble, I’ve had a hard time with finding my title in both Schuler’s and Borders stores in the past. Not any longer, apparently. Not only was it listed as available for special order, it was listed at a price 1 penny cheaper than I sell it for.

The Remembrance for $14.99

You can even avoid Shipping and Handling charges by ordering it to the store closest to you, and then picking it up.

Do not, by any means, abandon your non-chain, independent book stores. I’m still waiting to hear whether or not Everybody Reads wants to re-order (going in and requesting a copy might help, I dunno *hint, hint*), and I know that the Way Station still has copies. There are inroads being made in Ann Arbor, as well. *crosses fingers*

In other news, the camera work in Cloverfield was nauseating, as expected. got hit harder than I did. But, oh, wow, what a movie. No kid gloves -at all-. I actually jumped in my seat a few times. I cared about the characters. There are some plot holes, but I was totally drawn in. Immersed, even. *thumbs-up*