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Jeff Tanyard

Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #450 on: October 12, 2020, 06:09:59 PM »
I'm not familiar with this site, but they decided to promote my book, so I'm going with it.   :icon_mrgreen:

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« Reply #451 on: October 17, 2020, 03:57:37 AM »
A light-hearted post about paper books: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/10/16/in-praise-of-paper/
 

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« Reply #452 on: October 31, 2020, 03:29:07 AM »
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #453 on: November 13, 2020, 09:19:47 AM »
i've not been blogging because of surgeries/recovery but i couldn't stay away any longer. a few thoughts and lots of pictures
 https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2020/11/silence-and-prayer.html


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Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #454 on: November 14, 2020, 01:10:04 AM »
There's something rotten in the world of audiobooks: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/11/13/returns/
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #455 on: November 22, 2020, 11:21:23 AM »
i'm feeling better and listening to handel's messiah. I may have found the perfect recording: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2020/11/symphony-and-cacophony.html


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« Reply #456 on: November 26, 2020, 12:07:03 PM »


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Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #457 on: November 28, 2020, 04:02:43 AM »
On reviewing other writers' work: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/11/27/reviewing/
 

Jeff Tanyard

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« Reply #458 on: December 08, 2020, 06:16:10 PM »
A legend of the wild blue yonder has climbed high into the sun one last time.   :icon_cry:

R.I.P., Chuck Yeager
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« Reply #459 on: December 08, 2020, 09:18:33 PM »
I just watched the news reel of the flight where he broke the sound barrier a couple of months ago. Man that was nuts.
 

Jeff Tanyard

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« Reply #460 on: December 09, 2020, 08:01:38 AM »
I just watched the news reel of the flight where he broke the sound barrier a couple of months ago. Man that was nuts.


The Bell X-1 was basically a rocket with wings.  The hatch was on the side, right in front of the wing.  Bailing out and surviving would have been a tricky proposition for a completely healthy man, let alone one with broken ribs.  (Yeager had broken his ribs a few days earlier in a horseback-riding incident.)  That thing was a suicide machine.

Here's an interesting article about the aircraft.

During WWII, Yeager was shot down over France and taken in by the French Resistance.

He made ace in a single day.

Yeager had 20/10 vision.  This gave him an edge in dogfighting.  He could see the enemy before they saw him.

The engineers loved Yeager as a test pilot.  He had a real knack for explaining exactly what an airplane was doing, and the engineers were able to make the correct modifications as a result.

He encountered the new German jet fighter, the Me-262, at one point during the war.  He later quipped, "The first time I saw a jet, I shot it down."





If you haven't read his autobiography, I highly recommend it.  Like I said in the blog post, it's so fantastic that, if it was fiction, readers would consider it utterly unrealistic.  The fact that it's not fiction is what makes it so fascinating and impressive.

Here's the "breaking the sound barrier" scene from the movie The Right Stuff.  I'm not ashamed to admit that I get a little teary-eyed at the part where the music kicks in.  It's just so dadgum triumphant. 


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« Reply #461 on: December 09, 2020, 08:52:45 AM »
Just the little trip from the airplane to the rocket would have made me crap my pants.
 
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Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #462 on: December 12, 2020, 04:09:14 AM »
A post from 2013 written days after I'd signed with a small press. I can still recall how excited I felt: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/12/11/from-self-published-to-published/
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #463 on: December 13, 2020, 06:22:06 AM »


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Jeff Tanyard

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« Reply #464 on: December 21, 2020, 06:04:27 PM »
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notthatamanda

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« Reply #465 on: December 22, 2020, 08:23:10 AM »
Too cloudy here.  :icon_sad:
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #466 on: December 22, 2020, 12:59:47 PM »
I could see two distinct stars, one brighter than the other. Very cool.


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Jeff Tanyard

Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #467 on: December 22, 2020, 03:13:08 PM »
Clear skies here, so I got a good view.  I was a bit disappointed, though.  I figured it would be bigger and brighter and just more impressive all around.   :shrug

My eyesight isn't perfect, so I could only see a single white dot with the naked eye.  With the binoculars, both planets were clearly distinct.  Saturn was to the right of Jupiter and slightly higher.  And I thought I saw a Galilean moon or two, but that's hard to say.  Those things are tough to see.

Anyway, it's a neat event, and I'm glad I got to see it.  :)
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« Reply #468 on: December 22, 2020, 04:30:48 PM »
Cloudy here, so didn't see it.  When the clouds began to break, I saw a light in what I thought was the right spot, but it moved.  And then there was another.  I think four lights.  Planes I imagine, though they seemed higher than the two or three commercial planes going in different directions.  Then I saw a line of three lights in a row, all going the same direction as the first four.  Through the clouds, I could see a few more.  I suspect there may have been more that I couldn't see because they were high up or their lights were dim and also there were still plenty of clouds.  I assume they were all planes but the thought did occur to me that, this being 2020 and all, an alien invasion would pretty much cap the whole year off.  I looked again a few minutes later and still saw more, all heading in the same direction.  A few minutes later, I went out again and counted about eighteen of the lights all going in the same direction.  I guessed there were probably two dozen or more, but it was hard to tell with the clouds moving in the opposite direction from the planes.  I'd guess I probably saw three dozen in all but I suspect there were many more because of the time I wasn't out looking.  It was like they kept coming and coming and coming.
Mulder: "If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above."
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notthatamanda

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« Reply #469 on: December 22, 2020, 09:10:32 PM »
Maybe somebody was launching paper lanterns?
 

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Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #470 on: December 23, 2020, 12:21:51 AM »
I'm in South Wales, UK. It was chucking it down here so had no chance of seeing anything.
 

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Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #471 on: December 24, 2020, 02:52:25 AM »
Last blog post of 2020. With a Ho and a Ho and, perchance, a Ho.
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/12/23/merry-christmas-2/
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #472 on: December 25, 2020, 12:59:45 AM »


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Jeff Tanyard

Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #473 on: January 02, 2021, 06:03:59 PM »
I'm in a couple of group promotions.  There are a few other Writer Sanctum authors in there, too, so check them out.

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« Reply #474 on: January 10, 2021, 09:27:29 AM »


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« Reply #475 on: January 16, 2021, 12:21:00 PM »


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Vijaya

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« Reply #476 on: January 22, 2021, 11:01:13 AM »
I love saints talking about other saints and a little joke about copying texts: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2021/01/saint-ambrose-on-saint-agnes.html


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Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #477 on: January 23, 2021, 04:02:42 AM »
A technical post about editing audio tracks in Audacity: http://samkates.co.uk/2021/01/22/audiobooks-part-6/
 

Jeff Tanyard

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« Reply #478 on: January 28, 2021, 04:23:28 PM »
My eyes aren't too-sensitive and watering anymore.

I can look at a screen now
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« Reply #479 on: January 28, 2021, 08:33:17 PM »
My eyes aren't too-sensitive and watering anymore.

I can look at a screen now

Hey, man, here's to a full recovery.
 
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Vijaya

Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #480 on: February 05, 2021, 06:53:04 AM »
If you've ever had a writing block or needing some help to get back into writing, look no further than Jumpstart: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2021/02/jumpstart-on-writing.html
I'm in my second week and so much happier with what I'm producing.


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« Reply #481 on: February 06, 2021, 03:33:44 AM »
An interview from 2014 about writing science fiction: http://samkates.co.uk/2021/02/05/on-being-a-science-fiction-writer/
 

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« Reply #482 on: February 20, 2021, 03:26:57 AM »
An article in an ongoing series about grammar. Yeah, really. http://samkates.co.uk/2021/02/19/grammar-part-7/
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #483 on: February 20, 2021, 09:48:48 AM »


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Jeff Tanyard

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« Reply #484 on: March 04, 2021, 02:54:21 PM »
A stock market post for anyone interested in that stuff:

This market is spooking me.   :icon_eek:
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« Reply #485 on: March 04, 2021, 09:47:26 PM »
A stock market post for anyone interested in that stuff:

This market is spooking me.   :icon_eek:

I have a bad feeling too. It's really out of control and it reminds me of the dot com mania and the housing prices rising and rising and rising...
 
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« Reply #486 on: March 06, 2021, 05:38:04 AM »
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #487 on: March 09, 2021, 09:33:26 AM »


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« Reply #488 on: March 14, 2021, 07:09:40 AM »
Thinking of the one year anniversary when the lockdowns began. 2020 truly felt apocalyptic: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2021/03/apocalypse.html


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Vijaya

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« Reply #489 on: March 18, 2021, 06:55:16 AM »


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« Reply #490 on: March 20, 2021, 12:17:52 AM »
Two litanies and three books for the Feast of St. Joseph: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2021/03/litany-of-st-joseph-and-litany-of.html


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Vijaya

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« Reply #492 on: March 26, 2021, 05:05:50 AM »
Bragging on my son, my cat, and some books (including Ten Easter Eggs): https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-lamp-lenten-feasts-and-admiration.html


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Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Reply #493 on: April 03, 2021, 01:15:22 AM »
Audiobooks - Part 7: on mastering audio tracks in Audacity. http://samkates.co.uk/2021/04/02/audiobooks-part-7/
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #494 on: April 03, 2021, 09:18:04 AM »


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« Reply #495 on: April 04, 2021, 02:23:08 AM »


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« Reply #496 on: April 05, 2021, 06:04:26 AM »


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Vijaya

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« Reply #497 on: April 11, 2021, 12:35:17 PM »
Sharing some good books on the topic and how children perceive disembodied hearts.
https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2021/04/divine-mercy-and-strawberries.html


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« Reply #498 on: April 17, 2021, 01:57:38 AM »
 

Vijaya

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« Reply #499 on: April 17, 2021, 09:50:19 AM »
I just started a book from Sarah Miller. I don't have enough words to say how beautiful it is. https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2021/04/caroline-little-house-revisited.html


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