Below are the most recent 14 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
seawasp	11:45a	Help me, Obi-Wan LJ! You're my only hope! You guys have been stellar about helping me on various things before, so I'm hoping you can do it again now. For yet another of our proposals, I'm trying to find a diagram/really good set of pictures of the Carriage, Stream, Tow, and Recovery System (CSTRS) for sonar and related airborned mine countermeasures operations, operating from the MH-60S. I've got calls into Odim and CTC who work on the system, which you can see something about here, but multiple google attempts with multiple different search terms have given me just a few pictures which are not clear enough for me to really understand how the thing works. This makes it very difficult to figure out which parts I need to monitor to keep them properly running. Anyone? Beuller? Beuller? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
seawasp	2:10p	GODLIKE. Nicked from burger_eater, I give to you Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Emoticons One of the things that strikes me about this emoticon tour de force is that it's such a complete and total proof that yes, there really IS a good use for emoticons, and so THERE on those hoity-toity purist types who railed against their use. :) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
seawasp	6:27a	GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 29 Meanwhile, back at the Sphere...   ( DuQuesne, bearer of wierd tidings... ) It's tough to prepare for a journey that could be to ANYWHERE, really. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
seawasp	12:28a	Silly iMovie question... ... is there a simple way to take a single image and associate it with a piece of music (thus producing one of those YouTube videos which consists of a piece of music with a labeling image)? At the moment the only way I've found that works is to create a Quicktime video which is the length of the musical selection, said video consisting of many, many duplicates of the original image, then import the video and add the music track. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 4th, 2010
seawasp	6:23a	GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 28 And finally a chance to relax and reflect... ( Read more... ) Yes, that will be difficult, but are there any better choices? (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
seawasp	7:13p	Writer's Block: Baby, you can drive my car Do you have a "dream car"? If you had money to spare, would you buy a new car? If so, would you be more likely to get an eco-friendly vehicle, a vintage model, or a luxury sportscar? Submitted By amandom View 1214 Answers My dream car is 100% rustproof, is the size of a full-size van, and runs on nothing but tapwater, getting 100mpg. If I had the money, yes, I'd buy a new car, probably a full-size van, because I've got a family of 6. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
seawasp	4:49p	Gloom and Doom! Re one of the poll-posts of james_nicoll... ... boy, lots of people believe in DOOOOOM. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
seawasp	9:34a	Doctor Who, the just-Past season... Prior to last night, the last part of Doctor Who I'd seen was the Planet of the Dead (Bus in another dimension) special, so I caught up with it last night with Waters of Mars and End of Time. ( Cut for spoilers, obviously... ) So, in summary, not bad, some neat stuff (some of which will undoubtedly be driving fans to frothing rants), and sad, as it's an exit of one of the best Doctors, and one that I'd hoped would continue for years. Doesn't come near the epic coolness of a couple of the other seasons, especially  The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, but it's a good, serviceable Doctor Who story. Alas, I was severely disappointed by this season in that it wasn't a season -- just a few specials. Hopefully this will not be the case with the new Doctor's first appearances. I wish that RTD didn't have what appears to be an impulse to do Bizarre Sh*t for no reason other than that he can; it makes some of his stuff less than it might otherwise be. (21 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 1st, 2010
seawasp	8:16p	Sorta-resolutions... Looking over the past year and seeing some of the other posts, I realize that while when I was younger I read NONSTOP (I averaged one book per day for many years), these days I hardly read anything at all (aside from Usenet, LJ, things like that). I think I read five books this year outside of "stuff for work". So I will try to read more books this year. I finished out the year weighing in at 216.8 pounds. My high had been ~230, my low about 206, I think. So I have kept more than 10 pounds off from my starting point, despite a rebound that began once things really started getting hairy around here with health, etc. So I will endeavor to do at least as well this year, beginning 2011 at 205 pounds or less. I have started a website -- with the help of a number of other people -- for Grand Central Arena and my other books. I will endeavor to increase the material on the website and to push forward with as many reasonable methods for gaining more publicity for my novels as I can. I will take this seriously as a second career. I will finish at least two more novels this year, preferably three. I will try to watch our finances more closely and improve our financial position. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
seawasp	8:54a	GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 27 Let's see how Dr. Sandrisson is viewing things these days...   ( Following that little dust-up... ) More interesting people... and maybe now a chance to think about them all. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
seawasp	7:18a	A silly thing ... ... I posted on Usenet, but I thought might amuse other people, from a discussion on sequels to other people's works like The Hobbit...  "Know, o Prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Numenor and its gleaming cities, and the rise of the civilizations of Men, there was an Age undreamed of, when kingdoms dark and light lay spread across the world like green grass across the hills -- Rhun and Haradwaith, storied Khand, Mirkwood with its green-shadowed elves and spider-haunted ever-shifting pathways, Rohan whose gold-haired riders rode like the wind over unending plains, Umbar of black sails and red-handed corsairs, Lothlorien, unchanging, where dwelt the Perilous Lady, Mordor of grey-black dust and fire, heart of uttermost darkness. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Gondor, reigning supreme from the seven-tiered fortress of Minas Tirith. Hither came Bilbo the Hobbit, brown-haired, mild-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a riddler, a Burglar, with gigantic appetite and diminuitive stature, to tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under his furry feet." -- the Bag-End Chronicles (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
seawasp	7:15a	GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 26 Now let's find out what hit Ariane...   ( In Arena, ground hits YOU! ) It seems that aliens aren't the only danger here, Marc. (19 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 28th, 2009
seawasp	7:48a	GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 25 Picking up where we left off...   ( That's a BIG window... )   ... and we'll have to wait until next time to find out what that "something" was... (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
seawasp	9:35a	GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 24 The second part of the Big Reveal.     ( This time from Ariane's point of view... )   And that last part has been often singled out as a favorite scene by my beta-readers; it's certainly one of mine, and I spent quite some time on it to make sure it said what I wanted it to -- much longer than I normally spend on individual scenes. (7 Comments |Comment on this)