BVC's Running a New Twitter Contest!

We've got another twitter fic starting tomorrow. Please send out this announcement tomorrow:

C.F. Bentley Twitter Fic Contest at BookViewCafe.com

To celebrate the release of C.F. Bentley’s book Enigma, BookViewCafe.com (BVC) will be holding its fourth twitter fic contest August 11 through 13. BVC members Phyllis Irene Radford, Jennifer Stevenson, and Sarah Zettel will be judging the contest. First place will win a signed hardcover copy of Enigma. Second place winner will receive a paperback copy of Harmony, the first book in the series.

The theme of the contest is: "Spiders and Space Stations."

Rules are online at http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-Twitter-Fic-Contest-4-Enigma

The contest will be held at BVC's Twitter site: http://twitter.com/bookviewcafe/

BVC's wildly successful first three twitter fic contests were held earlier this year in celebration of member Pati Nagle's release of “The Betrayal,” P.R. Frost’s release of “Faery Moon,” and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhof’s release of “Laldasa: Beloved Slave.”

Enigma continues the story of Jake and Sissy seeking a peaceful way to bring Harmony back into galactic society.

C.F. Bentley is the pen name of BVC member Phyllis Irene Radford. Visit Radford’s bookshelf at: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Phyllis-Irene-Radford/

Robot Overlords, Aisle Five

Check out Tilted Twister, where they seem to have created a Lego NXT robot that not only solves the Rubik's Cube, it's polite and says thank you when you hand it to it. Interestingly, I have no impulse to anthopomorphize this gadget and call it him or her. It's just a little robotic thingy that's smarter than I am.

Spanish Is a Loving Tongue

...unless you are the two children playing in the yard next to my house. There are serious property ownership issues being worked out, regarding a truck, right of way, and some mysterious toy called "los ringos." Since I cannot see the kids, only hear them, it is left up to my imagination what exactly "lost ringos" are, and why deploying them has caused the other child to threaten to call Mom.