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Who is Melinda Snodgrass anyway?

After eight years as a novelist which included the publication of her CIRCUIT trilogy, and co-creating, editing, and writing for the Wild Card series, Melinda began her career as a story editor on STAR TREK:TNG, and wrote the Writer's Guild Award nominated script THE MEASURE OF A MAN. She worked for REASONABLE DOUBTS, and PROFILER, wrote six pilots, and had one produced and aired, STAR COMMAND. She is currently working on the third book in the EDGE series, has delivered the first book in a new urban fantasy series, and is starting on the second.  She has two screenplays currently under consideration in Hollywood.

“If H.P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason . This one will delight thinkers--and outrage true believers--of all stripes.” --George R. R. Martin
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“I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.  If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

Albert Einstein

Human's Baffle Me

Posted by: Melinda on Aug 31, 2011

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I have this, apparently, quaint and naive idea that facts and evidence changes people's minds, but a recent conversation with a friend at one of the many science fiction conventions I've attended in the past few weeks has badly shaken this faith in human intelligence.

Here's the background.  Republican rancher faced with a devastating and unnatural drought.  Does he go, "Hmm, maybe 97% to 98% percent of the world's scientist might be right about this global climate thing?"

No, his conclusion -- the terrorists are behind it.  They have found a way to mess with the weather to weaken and bring down the United States.

First off, if the terrorists actually had a James Bond Villain Weather Machine I think they would probably use it so it would rain in the Middle East.  Or they would make a boat load of money improving the climate in Siberia, or having rain arrive at just the right moment in various grain belts around the world.  But no, in his Fox informed world they would use this awesome technology to screw with the U.S.

My take away from all this.  Apparently Occam's Razor is bull crap when you're in this right wing mind set.  Conspiracies are much more fun than those hard knobby facts.  And people are incapable of changing their minds.

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And The Tech Goes On

Posted by: Melinda on Aug 25, 2011

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My cable box in the kitchen just up and died tonight.  I was hoping to watch TV while I ate dinner.  No such luck.  Then I thought, "hey, this little RCA that I bought in Los Angeles on one of my forays to the West Coast has a DVD player.  I'll watch Primeval.  So, I loaded the disk and the TV grumbled, and hemmed and hawed for about five minutes and then announced that it couldn't read this DVD's format.  Which means it probably can't read any disk I get from Netflix.

So, I got the extra cable box from the casita, and hooked it up so the TV would at least play the satellite, but damn that TV is not that old.  The tech has passed it by, and now it is a sad silver dinosaur sitting above the ovens.

That got me to thinking about all the sad little orphans.  My Palm was rendered obsolete by my IPhone.  The GPS in my car is rendered obsolete by an App for my IPhone.  I no longer carry a Big Bag O'Books when I travel because I have an IPad.

I live in my science fiction world.  It's kind of cool, though it may mean it's time for a new small TV for the kitchen.

 

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