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I remain a skeptic regarding the "alien photos" that i have seen because there is a certain ... I don't know, maybe fake look about them. Older pictures are so grainy and only show bodies that could have been molded as a prank gone out of hand. As to more modern pictures, I remind you of the...

At least in the USA, the dead DO have some privacy rights as administered by the executor of their estate and the family who might or might not choose to share.

Another new year for us to improve, screw up, hate, enjoy... probably all of those at different times over the course of the year. But best wishes to all.

The morals of intervention become even more complex when you toss religion into the mix, since religion claims to be the source of morality. So when two religions and two different moral viewpoints become involved, BOTH claim divine support for their position. Do you step aside and let those...

Wait.... ME keep threads on topic? Damn, I thought I was the master of asides, diversions, and digressions! My smart phone will absolutely NOT outlive me - because I don't have one. I refuse to have any device that claims to be smarter than me. OK, I'm a dinosaur. (Actually, not true. I'm...

I have found that grammar can be a pain in the toches when writing using a modern word processor that does all sorts of grammar checking for you. The feature is useful because it catches misuse of words that are homonyms. One simple example: It catches questionable cases of "which/that"...

There are movies that involve cloning not only the body, but also the mind. (Hey, if your science fiction says you can make a new body, copying the brain's knowledge should be easy, right?). A short story that I recall from years ago is "Good Night, Mr. James" by Clifford D Simak, in which a...

I actually have little to say directly on-topic, but just as a "fun" side note, one of the frequent threats to your character when you are playing any one of the Fallout games for PC/Consoles is the "Giant Mole Rat" which, post-nuclear-holocaust, is the size of a big dog or feral cat, but has a...

My novel titles might or might not be that catchy, though I like my last two. It is a fantasy series, remember. Volume IV of my "Saga of Sir...." (name removed to avoid copyright jumpers) is "A Dragon Comes Home" and Volume V is "Land of Decaying Dreams."

Just as a fine point, the statute of limitations on the law that covers Hillary's violations with the e-mail server has not run out. But I get your point. The problem, of course, is that humans would have to first be able to trust robotic judges enough to vote to change the law to allow such a...

Jon, though you addressed it to Bee, this is my own viewpoint on your question on the distinction between writing and story. Analogous to writing, computer-based product creation involves the technical side of things (programming code, syntax), the visual side of things (interface, complexity...

Jon, speaking of Access - the Access World forum has a certificate problem. First reported by Gina Whipp, but others noted it too. They've been trying to reach you but apparently those who have your phone say your mailbox is full.

Bee, people with a skill make their own luck. I guess I used a bad direction when talking "bestsellers" but I can tell you that there are people out there who write absolute DRIVEL and still get published. The guy who wrote that quadralogy that kick-started me into hobbyist writing was a prime...

I wish I could remember the author's name, but I saw this only once in Writer's Digest magazine from the late 1970s or early 1980s. I remember reading an interview with a well-known and highly successful author who revealed that he submitted his debut novel to four potential publishers. He got...

Congrats on the weight loss, Bee. You were having your bloods monitored, so you (or at least your med support team) knew that you were not overwhelming that part of the metabolism - the excretion part. Still not inconsistent with my point, though.

In New Orleans, we are at a major disadvantage since we live to eat. Because of my liver, I can't live to drink, and because of my age and other infirmities, let's just say that food is all I've got left in the proud OR guilty pleasures department. Jon, you are correct that faster weight loss...

Bee, look again. I said nothing about HOW to lose weight - I only said that losing too fast risks dehydration from too rapid a fluid loss, and that dehydration threatens the kidneys and other organs that rely on water for transport of whatever nutrients you are getting. That isn't merely...

Weight loss, to be health and sustainable, should not exceed 1 pound per week. Anything less is fluid loss that strains the kidneys. For me a six-pack challenge is no longer possible. It will have to be a keg challenge. Actually, I tell people I'm not fat. I'm part camel and one day I...

For me, the "idea" is the starting point. You have to have an idea, a situation, an event, SOMETHING that leads you to the story you will tell. Since I touch type, I can sit at a keyboard and blow through several pages of events. I got started from an event a LONG time ago when my mother was...

The difficulty of accepting the evolutionary view of life usually comes down to incredulity. According to what our scientists tell us, life formed in warm, wet, actively-flowing, mineral-rich waters - our primordial oceans. That was the "test-tube" for life. A really interesting test tube...