Odds, Ends, A Few Moose, An Interview, And Superpowers

I just saw this on my Twitter feed, via @doctorow: on-board video of a quadcopter buzzing a Norwegian moose.  Let’s all reflect on that for a moment: there was a moose, in the woods, and it was buzzed by a remote-controlled quadcopter.  This is the modern world, people.  It’s like something out of a Charlie Stross novel.

This next thing doesn’t involve a moose, but I’ll mention it anyway.  My friend Emily Mah recently posted an audio recording of an interview we did for Black Gate this past summer.  Emily and I were in the same writing critique group for several years before she and her family moved to a foreign country.  It was a fun interview, even if she spilled the beans about the greatest writing project in the history of literature: Vlad Jetpack.

This next thing also doesn’t involve a moose, but it’s still pretty cool that Iceberg Ink enjoyed The Coldest War quite a bit.  And, following up on my previous post, Pat of Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist has released his list of Hottie Awards.  Hooray!

And finally (and also not moose-related), Richard from GiantSizeGeek brought this to my attention: a DIY transcranial direct current stimulation kit.  That makes the SECOND consumer tDCS rig I’ve seen in the past year.  (I’ve posted about tDCS a few times, and even mentioned this on the Orbit blog this summer.)

I realize I might have overhyped this blog post when I said it contained a few moose.  I don’t want to get bogged down in semantics, but that was, in a technical sense, a “lie.”