One of the things that you learn as you study history is that at some point someone has tried to explain everything from positions that don’t hold water. As a young nation, which America still was in the early 1800s it was wildly xenophobic. Worse as a large part of the movers and shakers who [...]
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Black History Month: Irish Potato Famine Fallout
Posted: February 15, 2013 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: Black History Month, history
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Black History Month: Simeon’s Story
Posted: February 13, 2013 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: Black History Month, dave freer, Emmett Till, history, human behavior, pyramid power
One of the “lost” events of the civil rights struggle was the kidnapping, mutilation and murder of a 14 year old boy in the Mississippi delta for failing to follow the rules he, a visitor, was wholly ignorant of. Worse was the travesty of a trial afterwards. Simeon Wright is the cousin of that lost [...]
Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful: Nemo & Writing
Posted: February 9, 2013 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: irene radford, storm, the art and science of writing, weather, writing
One of the things a lot writers have to do is jump outside the known, into the stark cold reality of “making shit up” and not just making it, making it up and making it sound good. If you’ve never left the southern tip of Miami, or live on a beach in Panama, you probably [...]
Silent Dragon Is Available!
Posted: February 9, 2013 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: client, interview, irene radford, silent dragon
For those of you who somehow forgot to preorder, and missed Irene Radford’s blog post, and didn’t get to a book store, Silent Dragon came out this week. This video is a lovely interview DAW put together with the author. The book is available in paperback, and multiple ebook formats.
Black History Month: Benjamin Benneker He Was No Space Marine But Pretty Damn Neat
Posted: February 6, 2013 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: Black History Month, history
Benjamin Benneker was not a space marine but that’s probably only because he never got a chance to work with NASA. One of the black men held up to show various small minded bigots like Jefferson that blacks were intellectual equals to the white slave owning, power holders. Among his other accomplishments was hand carving [...]
Black History Month: Dr. T.R.M. Howard
Posted: February 1, 2013 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: Black History Month, books, Dr TRM Howard, history
This is one of the best books I’ve read in the last two or three years. If you’re looking for a larger than life figure to base a character on, Dr. Howard is the man. If you want to read about civil rights figures beyond Malcolm X, or Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Dr. Howard [...]
News! Short Sale and Return to A Universe
Posted: January 14, 2013 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: clients, news, silent dragon
The amazing Marshall Ryan Maresca will be part of a stellar cast in the upcoming Rayguns Over Texas which you’ll be able to put your hands on at LoneStarCon 3 aka Worldcon 2013. A little bit sooner than that, in February in fact, is the release of the fabulous Irene Radford’s Silent Dragon her return [...]
Brain Fodder: Web TV, Chromosome Segregation, Cufflinks on Your PJ’s, Color, Baby Blinding and More
Posted: December 27, 2012 by onyxhawke in Brain FodderTags: psychology, the art and science of writing, writing
The boffins at Amazon have pulled together six new web series they want folks to rate. Your cat could make your baby blind. Chromosome segregation is something we can all embrace, especially since cancer cases have a 90% prevalence when it breaks down. There may just be a habitable planet orbiting Tau Ceti. If there [...]
For some reason this didn’t show up in the last post. Work safe.
Brain Fodder: Good News, Nightwing, LA Raiders, Security Gone Wrong and more
Posted: December 17, 2012 by onyxhawke in Brain FodderTags: brain fodder, comics, genetics, human behavior, music, people are strange, science, sports
Given the recent nonsense, I’m going to start this collection off with something that should make you smile and is entirely work safe: And football being the only sport worth watching that’s actually being played right now (Thank Jeremy Jacobs and Gary Bettman!!) The DC character I think should be next up for a major [...]
Mental Health
Posted: December 14, 2012 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: people are strange, psychology, science
One of the, if not the biggest problems with our society (Western society as a whole) is that it has become unnaturally dichotomous. There is good. There is evil. There is no other category. There is sane. There is crazy. Good = Sane. Evil = Crazy. While I certainly despise gray goo in literature, in [...]
Launch! Steam Mole
Posted: December 2, 2012 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: cuttlefish, dave freer, steam mole, Steampunk
So like many others, you’ve read Cuttlefish by now. The long awaited sequel launches NOW. NOW!! NOW!!! Steam Mole takes our intreped adventurers a little further on their journey. Share the love with the readers you love this holiday season.
Brain Fodder: Drawing the Sky, Wonder Kid, Imprinting, Solar System Age And More
Posted: November 28, 2012 by onyxhawke in Brain FodderTags: brain fodder, research, science
2012-11-24So you need to chart the heavenly vista for your opus magnus? Not a new concern. Try this. A little remind that not all things are improved with quantity. What do you mean you need to know where the stars are before you can draw them? Blasphemous thought! If you haven’t heard of Kelvin Doe, [...]
Your Normal Isn’t
Posted: November 26, 2012 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: human behavior, people are strange, questions asked, random musing, reality
One of the most fascinating things about Homo sapiens is our adaptability. Think of the athlete who trains year round, the neurosurgeon who makes cuts using a robot and a laser that are minute, the statistician who carries a hundred 20 character or more formulas n their head, and person who speaks twelve languages are [...]
Silent Dragon Cover
Posted: November 17, 2012 by onyxhawke in UncategorizedTags: books, dragon, irene radford, silent dragon
The amazing Irene Radford has a new book due out February fifth. I’m sure most of you have already preordered it from your purveyor of treeware already. If not, feast thy eyes, and wander on to your favorite bookstore: For new fans, this is a great place to start exploring this universe. For [...]
Brain Fodder: Two Uteruses, Jupiter Get’s Spottier, Fold up boat and more
Posted: November 15, 2012 by onyxhawke in Brain FodderTags: animals, astronomy, brain fodder, genetics, human behavior, irene radford, research, science
A woman with two uteri, gave birth not long ago to two babies, one developed in each uterus. Yes, this is rare. A space saving, water craft you can put in your closet and still have room for shoes. It’s not quite George Jetson’s foldup car, but a kayak that compacts neatly is still pretty [...]
I attempt to improve my brain on a regular basis. Often the most interesting lessons I learn, are of the “Oh [Censored] now how do i fix it variety.” In today’s case a file I’d made quite a few changes too apparently lost those changes, or I forgot to save it when moving from a [...]
To all who serve today, and everyone who has served in the past: Thank you for being the rough men and women standing ready, day and night, in conditions frigid, squalid, sweltering, and more so that others may sleep peacefully.