Creation Science
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Update #2: Moving along & some mysteries
Posted on October 23, 2009
Firstly, a great big happy thank you to all my generous backers. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
A bit of a mystery -- when I got up this morning I found that I could not view videos on this site -- get the message that I need to have Javascript & Flash 9 enabled, which I do. And other sites seem to work. . . a mystery. . .
Another thing I'm wondering about is why there have been no $1 or $5 backers so far. I was kinda hoping, and still am hoping, that some kind of minor groundswell of donors of small amounts will appear on the scene. As I said in my little video (in which I channel Ben Stein as the world's most boring man), somewhere in the vicinity of 20k people have downloaded my books for free. And probably 100k people have read my Salon essays. If I could get a few hundred of them to chip in a few bucks, that take me a long way towards my goal. Or even if I could get Joe or Jane random person who's never heard of me at all but felt like chipping in a dollar to be a nice person. . . But I really have no idea how to get the word out to anybody who's downloaded my books or read the articles. . . other than to keep doing what I'm doing, and to ask you, my dear friends, to continue to spread the word. It would be super-duper awesome if you could put up a link to this project page on your facebook or blog, or send a long the link to your nearest & dearest.
Until the fund raising goal is safely within reach, I'm going to be concentrating on rounding up more support. Soon, I hope, I'll be able to start blogging on the more interesting topic of Creation Science itself.
Regards, & I'll talk to yz all soon.
jrs
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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.
