Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones V

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones V

Nov 11, 2024

On the surface “Your man, Weems,” Barrett growled at the wealthy would-be colonist. “He hacked my shuttle’s piloting computer.” “You belabor the obvious, Captain.” "You were prepared for this, you bastard.  You knew there was an emerging intelligence here." "You...

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones V

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones IV

Nov 4, 2024

The Shade Tree Jean Barrett and Darrell Weems, Amole's "executive assistant," were overseeing the loading of the three cargo containers containing two small pre-fab shelters and various and sundry supplies for Amole’s fledgling colony when the call came down from the...

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones V

Barrett’s Privateers – Throwing Stones III

Oct 28, 2024

The Shade Tree “Now this is more like it,” First Watch Scanning tech Ophelia Watts announced.  “This one is about 1.4 AU out from a large blue-white star, so it’s got a long day, looks like about twenty-nine hours, and a solar year of about four hundred and...

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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...