What I meant to post earlier. When I blur a picture but the light is nice, then out come the Photoshop paint filters, an insult to real artists everywhere.

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Published scifi novel word counts [Archive] - Absolute Write Water Cooler

My Intro SF students voted against Dune, which has 185,000 words. I don't think they realize that our next book, "Fire Upon the Deep" has 285,000 words. I know because I downloaded it, converted it to plain text, then pasted it into Microsoft Word and did a word count. We are going to be reading this for two weeks. I tested their reading speed in class, and the average is about 400 words per minute. That means it will take them 11 hours to finish. I feel like I'm colonizing their brains.
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Legend has it that on a certain day of the year, when the sun hits at just the right angle, you can see the glint from a large pile of discarded engagement bands.

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At one point, before the heavy-handed use of Lightroom, this was a cloud.

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Unretouched.

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New photo by Mark Crane (Craniac)

Most of this has melted, but I'm sure there will be more.
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New photo by Mark Crane (Craniac)

Qatar University, three years ago.
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PlayGround +

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Watch a record-holding freediver plunge into the Arctic ice

This is both beautiful and terrifying.
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Lucas wanted David Lynch to direct Return of the Jedi

"So, he took me upstairs and he showed me these things called Wookiees. And now this headache is getting stronger."
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