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Monday, June 29, 2009 |
An Earthquake Journal by Roy Trumbull
On this, the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in the San
Francisco Bay Area, I read from a journal I kept when I
worked at KRON-TV.
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The Short Attention Span Philosopher
#191 Thomas Edison
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Ch 27 The Social Side of Edison - concluding chapter
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch10 Big Bear Lake
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Monday, June 22, 2009 |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch09 Los Angeles
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26 The Black Flag
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch08 A Voice In The Night
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The Short Attention Span Philosopher
#190 Liar's Poker #2 from the book Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
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25 The Value of Edison's Work to the World
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch07 Time For A Drink
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Monday, June 08, 2009 |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch06 Another Day
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24 Edison In Commerce and Manufacture
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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#189 Liar's Poker 1 - from the 1989 book by Michael Lewis
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
In The Land of Souls
An American Indian story. A young chief is to marry but the night
before the wedding his intended becomes suddenly ill and dies. He is
heartbroken and seeks to find her in the Land of Souls. This is a variant on the classic Orpheus myth.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch05 The Party
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#188 Devil's Dictionary 14 by Ambrose Bierce
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The Laboratory at Orange and the Staff
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch04 - Notes
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Monday, May 25, 2009 |
#187 Devil's Dictionary 13 by Ambrose Bierce
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22 Edison's Method In Inventing
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Friday, May 22, 2009 |
Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch03 Big Olga
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Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch02 - Rancho Borracho
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Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Ch01 The Man on the Slab
Vampires and various flesh eaters have been paying the bills for
authors and film makers for decades. This story features a race of
aliens who can sculpt a human body by using their hands to draw ugly
fat through the skin and into their bodies. People invite them to
cocktail parties and leave the garlic wreaths in the pantry. Just don't
get them mad.
This story introduces detective Abe Howard and his
talking computer Maija. Maija fits entirely into Abe's eyeglass frames.
When she needs some heavy lifting done she links to the Big Olga
satellite network.
Chapters will be added as they are completed.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
The Defenders by Philip K. Dick - Part 2
The final war is underway. The remaining humans are below-surface
making war materials. On the surface the battle is in the hands of
robots. But these robots have a mind of their own. The text for this
story may be found at www.gutenberg.org .
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The Defenders by Philip K. Dick - Part 1
The final war is underway. The remaining humans are below-surface
making war materials. On the surface the battle is in the hands of
robots. But these robots have a mind of their own. The text for this
story may be found at www.gutenberg.org .
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
The Queen of Quok by L. Frank Baum
The king is dead. His 10 year old son is the new king. The treasury is
empty. The plan is to auction off the king's hand in marriage to a rich
woman who wants to be queen. All the candidates are old enough to be
his grandmother. As this is a fairy tale he is saved from his fate by a
magic purse.
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Monday, May 18, 2009 |
#186 Devil's Dictionary 12 by Ambrose Bierce
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21 Misc Inventions
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
Sci-Fi - Beyond Lies The Wub by Philip K. Dick
An alien pig may be tasty but therein lies a novel form of survival and
invasion. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org.
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Monday, May 11, 2009 |
Fantasy - Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick
In this fantasy, the classic threesome is augmented by a pouting
homicidal cuckoo clock. The text for this story may be found at
www.gutenberg.org.
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The Box of Robbers by L. Frank Baum
A little girl is curious about a mysterious trunk in the attic that
belongs to her Uncle Walter. She finds a key in the household
collection that fits the lock. But to her dismay the trunk contains
three Italian bandits, very much alive, who complicate her day.
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#185 Devil's Dictionary 11 by Ambrose Bierce
The Short Attention Span Philosopher
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20 The Edison Battery
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 |
Jack and the Bad Stock by Roy Trumbull copyright 2005
Four years ago I wrote this fable in the wake of Enron. I took up the subject of corporations that maintain off-shore incorporation as a tax dodge. The incorporation is usually on a Caribbean island where an office is said to exist while all business is actually conducted within the U.S.. This legal fiction is an abuse the current administration is trying to stop.
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Sci-Fi - This World Must Die by Horace Brown Fyfe
In the 22nd century violence has been all but bred out of humans. The
Luna penal colony is culled to find four people who might commit mass
murder to save mankind from a deadly plague.
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Sunday, May 03, 2009 |
The Short Attention Span Philosopher
#184 Devil's Dictionary 10 by Ambrose Bierce
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The Girl Who Owned A Bear by L. Frank Baum
Jane Gladys Brown has been given a book from which the drawings of the
characters leap off the pages and into her room. She is about to be
devoured by a grizzly bear when she realizes she can save herself.
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19 Motion Pictures
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Monday, April 27, 2009 |
The Capture of Father Time by L. Frank Baum
A young cowboy throws a lasso over Father Time and time stops.
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#183 Devil's Dictionary 9 by Ambroase Bierce
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18 Edison Portland Cement
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Monday, April 20, 2009 |
Sci Fi - The Stoker and the Stars by John A. Sentry
Earth has been defeated by more powerful forces. Of those who fought,
few returned. A man who did return seeks a job on a starship going to
Alpha Centaurus. The position open is that of stoker, the lowest
position there is. Nonetheless he will go on to become famous.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 |
The Tea Party by Roy Trumbull
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17 Magnetic Ore Milling Work
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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#182 Devil's Dictionary 8 by Ambrose Bierce
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 |
The Glass Mountain
A fairy tale from Poland. An enchanted princess lives in a castle atop
a glass mountain. She is surrounded by gold and fine jewels. Naturally
all the knights in the realm want to rescue her. They attempt this by
charging up the glass on their steads while wearing full armor. Tells
you all you need to know about the intelligence of knights. A mere
youth succeeds while they all fail.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 |
The Magic Ring
This story doesn't start out well. A young lad is sent to market to buy
food and instead gets a dog and a cat. His mom kicks him out. He labors
a year for a sack of sand. But then his fortunes turn for the better
when he acquires a magic ring. Not willing to be happy with his lot he
seeks the hand of a princess and then his troubles really begin.
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#181 Devil's Dictionary 7 by Ambrose Bierce
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16 The Electric Railway
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Monday, April 06, 2009 |
How Six Men Traveled Through The World
Long before there were comic books there were fairy tales. Some of them
had what would later be called Super Heroes. In this tale we start out
with a discharged soldier who has less than a cent in his pocket. But
by the end he has six super companions and all the gold in the kingdom.
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Sunday, April 05, 2009 |
#180 Devil's Dictionary 6 by Ambrose Bierce
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15 Other Early Stations & The Meter
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Saturday, April 04, 2009 |
Joey and the Portal by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
Joey visits an MRI machine and learns something about how it images
soft tissue. Joey's Uncle Walter has vanished and in his uncle's lab he
finds something like a home brew MRI machine but it's much different.
He figures out it's a portal but to where?
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Friday, April 03, 2009 |
Sci-Fi - Exile by Horace Brown Fyfe
Picture a planet surrounded by the debris of satellite collisions and a
100 mile deep meteor belt. A Terran has landed there but can never
leave. Then another Terran lands who is a criminal. The text for this
story may be found at www.gutenberg.org
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
To Market, To Market: The Branding of Billy Bailey by Cory DoctorowWhat if that kid at school, who is always the trend setter, were
actually a brand funded by the products he is seen using and wearing?
Copyright Cory Doctorow. Some rights reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.
This story appears in the collection A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE,
published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows press.
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Monday, March 30, 2009 |
14 The First Edison Central Station
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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#179 Devil's Dictionary 5 by Ambrose Bierce
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Friday, March 27, 2009 |
Sci-Fi The Measure of a Man by Randall Garrett
The lone survivor of an attack has vital information about an enemy
weapon that he must get to earth even if death is his only option.
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Monday, March 23, 2009 |
The Short Attention Span Philosopher
#178 Devil's Dictionary 4 by Ambrose Bierce
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13 Introduction of the Edison Electric Light
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
Science Fiction - In Case of Fire by Randall Garrett
An ambassador on a distant planet matches the psychological quirks of
his staff against a crack alien negotiation team at an armistice
conference.
The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org .
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Monday, March 16, 2009 |
Science Fiction - The Talkative Tree by Horace Brown Fyfe
A young man who is part of the crew of a space ship from a police state
confederation of planets considers melding with the life force on an
alien world where men are trees, plants, or animals.
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#177 Devil's Dictionary 3 by Ambrose Bierce
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12 Inventing a Complete System of Lighting
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
Science Fiction - Heist Job on Thizar by Randall Garrett
A beautiful girl, a thug, a narcotics kingpin, a priceless necklace,
and master jewel thief Anson Drake play out their cards on the planet
Thizar.
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Monday, March 09, 2009 |
11 A World-Hunt for Filament Material
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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#176 Devil's Dictionary 2
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Monday, March 02, 2009 |
The Short Attention Span Philosopher
#175 Devil's Dictionary 1 - by Ambrose Bierce
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10 Memories of Menlo Park
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
The Church of the Cell Phone Ministry
Brother Wooley expounds on the Ministry and the Sacred Text of the Church of the Cell Phone
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Monday, February 23, 2009 |
The Short Attention Span Philosopher
#174 Karl Marx
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09 The Invention of the Incandescent Lamp
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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08_The Phonograph
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Friday, February 13, 2009 |
Romeo and Juliet in Supposition by Roy Trumbull
This is a bit of humor I suspect is only funny to me and a few grad students. If I were you I'd skip it.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
Facebook - Roy Trumbull is on Facebook
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Pecos Bill Rides A Tornado
A classic tall tale from the Southwest
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 |
07_The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 |
06 Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Monday, January 26, 2009 |
05 The Stock Ticker
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Friday, January 23, 2009 |
Joey and Young Mr. Tom by Roy Trumbull copyright 2009
The first Joey story, Joey and the P-Ball, was quite popular. So I've brought him back and put him on a train in 1862 with a young Thomas Edison.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009 |
The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling
This is my favorite Just So story. A running joke in the story is that two words are mispronounced in the manner of a child who has just learned a word. Thus curiosity becomes curtiosity and insatiable becomes insatable.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 |
03 Edison On the Road
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Sunday, January 04, 2009 |
02 Edison the Young Telegrapher
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull.
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Monday, December 29, 2008 |
01 Edison the Early Years
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Roy Trumbull. Stories about the man who invented over 1000 things
including the dual well kitchen sink, wax paper, the quadraplex
telegraph, the phonograph, movies, and the light bulb.
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Monday, December 15, 2008 |
White Fang Part 1 Chapter 1 by Jack London
Two men and a dog sled are carrying a coffin with the corpse of an
Englishman who died in the north. It is very cold and bleak and they
sight no game as they travel. In lieu of game, a wolf pack is tracking
them and gets bolder and bolder.
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White Fang Part 1 Chapter 2 by Jack London
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White Fang Part 1 Chapter 3 by Jack London
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
The mining community of Poker Flat decides to expel 6 people. Two of
them make it as far as the nearest tree. The remaining four are
Oakhurst the gambler, Uncle Billy, town drunk and suspected sluice
robber, and two professional women.They head out for the nearest
settlement over the Sierras and are trapped by an early snow. The text
for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search authors for
Harte, Bret.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
Kind Little Edmund - This is the concluding story in the Book of Dragons
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Fiery Dragon
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Dragon Tamers
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Island of the Nine Whirlpools
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Ice Dragon
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
Deliverers of Their Country
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
Uncle James or the Purple Stranger
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Friday, October 10, 2008 |
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Book of Beasts
The playing time of this story is 30 minutes.
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 |
Certain Death Cola by Roy Trumbull copyright 2008
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Monday, September 29, 2008 |
George Shearing Interview 1960
The topic wasn't music but rather the sighted world's misconceptions about the blind. The interview was conducted in a backstage green room between sets at a concert.
At the time English paper money varied in size by denomination so it was easy to tell what you were dealing with. Here a blind person has to be told what the denomination of a bill is and then folds it a special way when putting it in his wallet. Most sighted people don't know that. It provided the setup for a gag George was fond of pulling.
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Question of Comfort by Les CollinsAn alien cop sets a trap for an escaped prisoner by building a new ride
at Disneyland. This story first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
magazine in 1959. Ticket prices of $2 are spoken of as high. They were.
At the time most people earned $1/hr. The name Bonestell is mentioned.
That would be Chesley Bonestell who illustrated the 1949 book "Conquest
of Space". Many teenage boys who read that book went on to be the
scientists in the space program. He designed realistic space settings
for Hollywood movies. His paintings are on display at the National Air
and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
This is a 25meg file. Reading time is 52 minutes.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
Miss Moose Meat by Roy Trumbull copyright 2008
A young lady is proud of the fact she
was named Miss Moose Meat at a beauty contest in Alaska. In fact she
never fails to mention the fact, much to the chagrin of her brother. It
acts as a boy friend screening process. If a guy is still interested
after he hears the tale, then maybe he's the one.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
Craphound by Cory Doctorow
How many extra-terrestrials do you get at your yard sales or see at the
Salvation Army Thrift shop looking for cowboy and Indian gear?
Copyright Cory Doctorow. Some rights reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.
This story appears in the collection A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE,
published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows press.
The story contains some swear words. The story text is posted at www.gutenberg.org .
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Monday, August 18, 2008 |
The Perfectionists by Arnold Castle - Classic Sci-FiAliens have prepared replicants to invade earth. But they need to go to
finishing school to pass as humans. Kidnapped earthmen are their
unwitting teachers.
The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org
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Friday, August 15, 2008 |
Vanishing Point by C.C. Beck - Classic Sci-Fi
Is reality just an illusion? An artist builds a machine to find out.
The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org .
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Monday, August 11, 2008 |
Droozle by Frank Banta - Classic Sci-Fi
You know the story of the man, the woman, and the snake? Well, it's not
that one. This snake serves as a ballpoint pen and has literary
ambitions.
The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 |
Accidental Death by Peter Baily - Classic Sci-Fi
The only survivor of the first starship journey was lucky. Well, maybe.
There
is a reference in this story to a program on paper tape. I dedicate
this reading to those of you who recall loading short programs via the
front panel with toggle switches, then running the bootstrap loader and
software tapes on the tape reader of a balky ASR-33 teletype.
The rest of you pay no attention, go back to your overpriced video gizmos.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
Scrimshaw by Murray Leinster - Classic Sci-Fi
A mining colony on the moon is home to a murderer and to his victim who
is slowly recovering memories lost when he was left for dead. A bold
attempt is made to hijack $5 million in diamonds from the mine.
The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org .
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 |
And All The Earth A Grave - Classic Sci-FiA piece of black humor by Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp). Through a
computer error the advertising manager for a casket company gets 100
times his normal budget and makes death the new cool thing.
The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org.
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Monday, July 28, 2008 |
The Super Man and the Bugout by Cory Doctorow - Contemporary Sci-Fi
Imagine the super infant's rocket landing in Ontario instead of the midwest. And that he is adopted by a Jewish couple thus giving us a super hero with a Jewish mother. The story contains some profanity.
The text for this story is at www.gutenberg.org .
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Monday, June 09, 2008 |
Atomic Mom
This is a link to an interview with M.T. Silvia about a film she is working on about her mother who was a scientist who worked at the Nevada Atomic Test Site in the 1950s. M.T., as she is known, is a very gifted young film maker. The film will probably be released in 2009.
I post this interview because you won't find the story in our history books. In 1953 I saw a test that was televised live. After the surface testing of atomic and hydrogen bombs all milk products contained radioactive strontium 90. The only uncontaminated milk on the planet was some dried milk we had in Antarctica.
Roy
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 |
Joey and the P-Ball by Roy Trumbull copyright 2008
A teenager invents a golf ball that can't be lost.
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Friday, April 18, 2008 |
Nixon the Country
It has been proposed that China be renamed Nixon
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
A Whale on Wall Street by Roy Trumbull
copyright 2007
The story of the kidsheimers epidemic, an orphan, a love story, subprime mortgages and an underseas earthquake that lands orcas on the streets of Manhattan.
All 10 chapters may be downloaded or played from the Internet Archive
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 |
Alex the Parrot-guin by Roy Trumbull copyright 2007
All chapters are available at this link
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Friday, June 15, 2007 |
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Friday, May 11, 2007 |
Storyspieler Library
A number of our previously posted stories are to be found at Internet Archive
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 |
Current Library
A Excel spreadsheet of the 189 stories presently available at www.storyspieler.com
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 |
How to receive these stories as podcasts. If you download and install
ipodder from www.ipodder.org and use the add function to add this
address http://radio.weblogs.com/0143840/rss.xml
, then each time something new is available on this site it will be
downloaded in the background while you are doing other things on your
computer.
Check the itunes site for free software for PCs and MACs that works with Podcasting.
If you wish to receive only children's stories, use this address:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0143840/categories/childrenSStories/rss.xml
Stories no longer on the podcast may be at www.storyspieler.com
Some pages require a user name and password. Click on comments to reguest a password and it will be emailed to you.
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