In addition to being the inspiration for the films AI and Halloween, and being the home of writer Ef Deal, Haddonfield, NJ was also home to the Hadrosaurus foulkii dinosaur 65 million years ago (give or take a few million). It was discovered in 1838, excavated in 1858, then assembled in 1868.
Here is where I made my discovery. But also be sure to check out the rest of ZUG’s pranks, which are quite amusing. See? Humor can be educational!
I’d like to again welcome those of you who are reading this courtesy of the Analog and/or Asimov’s “A Blog’s Eye View” portal. You may have caught the “sneak preview” of my blog last week, when it was placed into the feature slot a bit prematurely. For those who did, welcome back. For those who didn’t, welcome. Come on in, stay a while.
My blog will be featured on the “A Blog’s Eye View” pages for the month of June. Otherwise, you can find it at http://www.tuginternet.com/jja/journal/.
And don’t forget — June is Slush Writer Appreciation Month. Be sure to check out my interviews with the authors of stories I’ve rescued from the slush pile. Currently featured is my interview with Ef Deal, author of “Czesko.” Also be sure to check out my interview with Mike Shultz, author of “Old as Books.”
And finally, one last note to my regular blog readers. If you’re a regular, do SF bloggers (and me) a favor, and click over to Analog’s (http://www.analogsf.com/blog.shtml) and Asimovs’ (http://www.asimovs.com/Blog.shtml) “A Blog’s Eye View” pages, so they’ll know people like the feature, and that the magazine readers are interested in discovering new SFnal blogs.
If anyone wants to place my magazine banner on their own website, here’s the code to do it:
magazine banner:
Alex Wilson suggested I slow down the Troll ad a bit, and advised me on how I can workaround that whole embedded link problem, which is to include the HTML code for others to copy if they want to use the ad on their own site (so you can help Charlie sell lots of books). The ad’s been slowed down; if it’s still too fast, let me know. Here’s the HTML:
If you decide to put the banner on your site, please don’t modify the HTML. Leaving it as is will allow me to track the ad’s effectiveness, regardless of where it appears.
700x60 banner:
I’m interested to hear comments on the The Prodigal Troll ad you see above. Is it cycling too fast? Do you have time to read the quote?
BTW, does anyone know if you can embed a link into an animated gif? I know you can do that in flash, and I initially tried to make the ad in flash, but I suck at using it, and I gave up. Making an animated gif is easy. The ad as it is now is linked to Amazon, but that URL is not embedded in the file, so if someone wanted to copy the ad and use it elsewhere, they’d have to attach a link to the image with HTML.
Okay, so if you view my blog on the main page and not through an aggregator, you’ve probably noticed that I removed that stupid AIM remote. I didn’t remove it because IMs were bothering me; I only removed it because it was annoying me and I felt like it was cluttering up my banner space. So do still feel free to IM me if you want. I’ve moved the link over to the sidebar below my ID info, next to my email address. And if that’s too complex for you, the AIM username is johnjosephadams.
New stories this month: a suburban fantasy from Delia Sherman, a chilling apocalyptic horror tale from Claudia O’Keefe, a temporal art tale from Allen Steele, new hard SF from Daryl Gregory, a cyberpunkish sf tale from Tony Sarowitz, arrrrrr lit’ry pirate fantasy from Gene Wolfe, and a brilliant new TV show fantasy from Kelly Link (in her F&SF debut). Quite a batch this month! You’ll likely be seeing the Wolfe (Oct/Nov) and Link (Sept.) very soon, though the future is still uncertain.
If you’re thinking of upgrading your RAM, NewEgg.com is having a one-day sale:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145440
My computer geek calls it a major bargain, as for me it’s an upgrade not only in quantity of RAM, but in quality (from pc2700 333mhz RAM to pc3200 400mhz RAM).
If you don’t know what sort of RAM you have and you want to upgrade, try using that Belarc thing I blogged about yesterday.
Have you ever tried to figure out what kind of RAM you need to buy for your PC, or anything else about the specifications of your machine? I can never seem to figure out how to do it, and always turn to computer geek friends for assistance. One of my geeks referred me to this cool program called Belarc Advisor.
From the Belarc website:
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.
Detailed is right. It tells you all the basics, such as how much RAM you have installed (and what type and how many slots your case has available for expansion), your processor speed, etc., along with all the really geeky stuff that you and I don’t understand (but your geek will). What’s really handy is that you can just save the data as an HTML file and email it to your geek so he can advise you. Neat! Plus, it’s freeware, so the price is right.
So I think the program’s pretty useful, but you’d think there would be a standard system utility on your computer that would tell you this stuff.
