Creation Science
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Update #1: Great timing!
Posted on October 20, 2009
Hello everybody,
So, I kicked off the project this morning, sent out 1 tweet about Creation Science, then went down to the Baptist parish house out of which our food pantry operates to see what the food delivery fairies from the Boston Food Bank had dropped off. (We have a food distribution tomorrow; we get a resupply from the food bank once a month but never know what we're going to get until it shows up. Workers from my town's Department of Public Works go over to Hyannis in America on the first ferry off-island and return with the food around 9:30. I try to meet them there, but today I was late and the food was waiting for me.) Among lots of other things, they had dropped off about 120 frozen chickens.
Only problem is, our pantry's freezer only had room for about 90 frozen chickens. So I got creative & borrowed some space from the church's freezer, and gave away a bunch of chickens to some young mothers who were in an adjoining room, and then I stacked all the other food that had been dropped off so that my wife & other volunteers can fill grocery bags for a distribution tomorrow. That took about 1.5 hours. Then I took doggie to the doggie park so she could run around; dog must be exercised or she drives me nuts here & I cannot get work done.
So then I came home to check to see if anybody had backed me yet (Thanks, Christian!) only to find out that my website wetmachine had been maliciously hacked. So the site is now up and running, but I have no idea how I got hacked & will have to deal with my ISP to reset passwords and see what we can to to keep the jerks out.
So, as much as I would like to give a nicer kickoff notice to my kickstarter project, I think I had better attend to my site's security issues and so forth.
Talk to yz soon.
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MARTHA'S VINEYARD RETREAT. You and a friend can be my guest for a weekend next spring or summer at my house on Martha's Vineyard. Join me and my wife for three days and two nights at our tiny but friendly house in Vineyard Haven. You'll stay in our guest room; we'll provide breakfast, give you a guided tour of the island, lend you one of our cars for up to five hours, let you borrow our bikes, and you'll be the guest of honor at a dinner party for which Dear Wife Betty will prepare a meal of at least 5 courses. Includes one PATRON PACK.
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I'm the author of the novels Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices, and The Pains, all of which can be downloaded for free from wetmachine.com. I've also written a bunch of award-winning essays for Salon.
I've done famine relief & agricultural development work in west Africa (5 years), have spent 22 of the last 30 years in high tech (Silicon Valley & Boston areas), the other 8 years as truck driver, construction laborer, and novelist. I volunteer at a food pantry that my wife founded & runs, and I'm a volunteer firefighter.
