Barrett’s Privateers – Quark Star VIII

Barrett’s Privateers – Quark Star VIII

Sep 30, 2024

Eight The K-1011, 2257 C.E. “Strain on the port drive pod building dangerously,” The Second Officer reported. “The strut may be cracking, and there is a potentially dangerous harmonic flutter developing.” “Stay on course,” Atta the Angry ordered.  “Maintain...

Barrett’s Privateers – Quark Star VIII

Barrett’s Privateers – Quark Star VI

Sep 16, 2024

Six The Shade Tree Jean watched for a few moments as her Bridge crew set up the trajectory through the nebula.  If we get through this, she told herself wryly, we will be the talk of the Confederacy – the ship that slingshotted around a Q-star.  Assuming we...

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Alaska Ramblings I – Seward

Aug 2, 2021 | , ,

The Place On Sunday, July 25th, Mrs. Animal and I took our two visiting daughters down the Kenai Peninsula to the small town of Seward, the first of many neat little places in Alaska that we intend to visit – and on which I will report to you here. Like many places in...

Ask Animal I

Jul 5, 2021 |

Ask Animal My colleagues ZARDOZ and STEVE SMITH have been offering advice and counsel to Glibs, lurkers, ladies and gentlemen and persons of irregular birth for some time now, so I thought I’d join the fun.  However, just to set myself apart, instead of lifting advice...