257 closer to the center than we realized



Cleaning up from the past week.

He fixed this...

...And was clawing his way back into the action, then one of his two rudders broke. 


File under: Self-Driving Mystery

With the ogre on his way out, the feelings of hope I had while writing The Land Of Opportunity Series are returning.

The idea that we have to haul around thousands of pounds of metal with us is on the way out, too.

Personally, I don't think this looks dorky in any way. I think it looks cool as hell.

This theoretical design has a chunk of the same tech I described in Self-Driving Mystery. It's self-balancing and self-steering.

Wonder if Porsche has a bike planned? The story here though is about the charging network. The opportunity is to open charging stations. (Or better, the AirBnB of battery charging, with an app to connect supply and demand on a P2P level.)

In Britain, the retail cost for electricity at the "pump" is about a pound per fifteen miles of charge, twice what Britons pay at home. 

That's a lot, but I think it's still only about half of what the equivalent gasoline would cost.

(Meanwhile in America.)


File under: shackitecture, and the political will to change our streetscapes



The play reading went well.

There were minor technical glitches, but we were able to stream to the big screen via YouTube pretty easily.

The actors of course surprised me with plenty of stuff I never saw in rehearsal.

Michael Perez stepped in kinda late in the process and nailed Christopher Walken and the Lifeguard.

Miguel Garcia clearly spent some time watching Robert Wagner interviews.

Thanks for tuning in if you were able.


These guys.

This place.

This heater!

This life.

This galaxy.

Did you hear the news? We're 2000 light years closer to the center of our galaxy, and moving 16,000 miles an hour faster than previously believed.

More thinking, and exploring the new tools. "Concepts" is a pretty dope app. To export at any resolution, however, is going to cost.

Wherein I realize I'm actually reconceiving the whole series, and that I've been trying to jam two ideas into one. There's a time travel story, and there's a Mars story.

And then, you know, space ships!


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