Tales from the Raven

Is a picture really worth a thousand words?  Would you rather get one untitled picture a month from a loved one, or several emails?  I’m assuming your average email is not longer than 500 words, and probably shorter.  What about in business?  Would you accept the occasional photo from your team leader instead of instructions?  Keep in mind [...]

Critic >n. 1 a person who expresses an unfavorable opinion of something: critics say many schools are not prepared to handle the influx of foreign students.
2 a person who judges the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works, esp. one who does so prefessionally: a film critic.
Misnomer >n. a wrong or inaccurate name or designation: [...]

10 - Give them a list of the things they should change to accomodate your kids.
9 - Stay up late watching shows and talking.
8 - Don’t worry about their non-smoking policy, that doesn’t apply to family.
7 - Borrow their car, then bring it back empty.
6 - Bring your pets with you.  Who knows, they may learn to love animals.
5 - Redecorate their boring guest bedroom.  You’ll be doing them [...]

I checked the site after posting this morning and found that one of my posts, Human Barometer, had been mulitplying during the night.  Does anyone know of a prevention for blog post reproduction?  I’m assuming it was asexual reproduction, probably mitosis.  I sincerely hope it wasn’t anything skankier than that!
I nixed the extra blog.  Let’s hope my [...]

This is the first novel in C.S. Lewis’s science fiction space trilogy.  The book takes place mostly on Malacandra (Mars), and tells the story of kidnapped earthman Elwin Ransom as he mingles with the natives and deals with the antagonists, Dr. Weston and his associate Devine.
The series explains through myth the Christian doctrine of temptation and the fall [...]

The weather’s weirding outside, with scudded clouds and dashes of rain.  My head is weirded, too.  It doesn’t like the pressure change.  I walk like my heels are too high, and if I stand up quickly I sway.
So of course this has got me thinking . . . wouldn’t it be interesting if certain people [...]

I really will put up a longer blog about robots and all things robotic, but in the meantime, here’s a list of Five Robots You Don’t Want To Mess With. 
The Tetra Vaal Robot Video really weirds me out.  They think it’s a good idea to give a robot a gun and tell it to shoot [...]

I just finished a final exam in 35 minutes, and I should have a solid B, at least.  There were 79 questions, plus a questionare which probably took me, say . . . 3 minutes, and two small interuptions, so let’s say I was actually filling in the bubbles for 30 minutes.  That works out to [...]

This is rolling in a day late, but better late than never . . .  
Anachronism >n. a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashoined: everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one anachronism, a bright yellow construction [...]

I just noticed this contest, over at AlienSkin.  The deadline is midnight Nov. 15th so if I enter I’ll have to overhaul something already written.  The genre is Science Fiction.
Good luck to any who enter!