I spoke to Phil Zuckerman last week and he said that the problem with he websites has been that they have been under Denial of Service attacks. Why someone has...
If anyone is interested I have an extra copy of Hal Goodwin's The Real Book About Stars in DJ for $4.00 + postage. Book and DJ in about good condition, DJ has...
Just finished reading aloud another Rick Brant Science-Adventure here in UpState NY. My son's new (to him) school sent home a PARP (Parents As Reading...
If that is your mortgage payment, you must not live in California! $665 would not even get you a 1 bedroom apartment for a month in the Sunshine State. Paul...
Sorry, Alex, most parents don't read to their kids after they start school, at least from my experience. Even sadder, very few of my students read for...
Vern, that may have been "The Lost World"? One of the earlier versions? I wouldn't be too pessimistic about the state of adult reading just judging by the...
Good point , David. Many do come back to or even discover reading as an adult. Actually, it was one book her whole 4 years of high school, not just her senior...
... had a ... book ... Kids reading is very much dependent on the parents but still each kid is different. I grew up in a family where both my mom and dad read...
I have a son that is currently taking 2 AP (Advanced Placement) plus Honors Courses in High School. By the time he completes the required reading for the...
"I only hope that later in life, he will enjoy reading for pleasure not because he was forced to."-Steve Schaefer Amen. I teach AP Physics and Pre-Ap Physics....
Oh, of course, I should have known. Lon Chaney, Jr, was in that one too. ... Good point , David. Many do come back to or even discover reading as an adult. ...
Rear projection: I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure King Kong (1933) used it a lot. My $.02 on modern special effects is that I'm tired of 'em. Everything ...
... versions? ... judging by the number of kids in high school/college who read. I've found it's common in my own experience and friends' that we stop reading...
King Kong from 1933 did have some rear projection segments. The first mate hiding in the cave while Kong is trying to reach him from above uses rear projection...
Evan's more the movie historian than I am and he's not here right now so I can't ask him. I did a quick search on Google and found an interesting piece about...
Wow - What a fun group of topics....Let me take a break from work and add my contribution. 1. I read in this morning's paper that a volcano exploded on the...
... SNIP ... Alex, The movie could be the first One Million B.C. from the thirties staring Lon Chaney Jr. Some of that became stock footage for many other...
... The differences in real estate prices (to rent or buy) across the US is astounding. I had a young woman in my business yesterday who recently moved from ...
Sometimes price differences work to your advantage. I sold my 1500 square foot 2bed/2bath (with one parking spot) condo in San Francisco for %700,000, then...
Does anyone know if the "Big Chunk of Ice," the last of the Mad Scientists' Club books, will be published anytime soon? It's not on the Purple House Press list...
DARPA is running a competition that would be just the kind if thing the Spindrift Foundation would take part in. On Saturday the 13th of March, 19 vehicles...
... The following bit on info from the Mad Scientists Club Web Site says it will be published after the other three. Since the other three are out, it should...
How pleased I was to receive "Divers Down" today and to note that it was a Whitman edition. And the persona is Hal Gordon! So now my Hal Goodwin collection...
Subject: Big Chunk of Ice Does anyone know if the "Big Chunk of Ice," the last of the Mad Scientists' Club books, will be published anytime soon? It's not on ...
I was just searching for something else when I stumbled onto a most interesting web page: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/nye/juven.htm It seems that...
Can anyone verify if the artist "Tossey" who painted the cover art for #10 "Golden Skull" is the artist Verne Tossey (1920 - 2002)? I've tried to compare the...
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