After much deliberation, I decided not to renew the Orbital Vector website I've had up for 13 years.
Most people reading this probably weren't even aware of it. I hadn't updated it in 6 years, but just couldn't bring myself to put it out of its misery until now.
Orbitalvector.com was dedicated to presenting speculative science ideas in a layman-friendly way. All in all, it eventually ended up with over 150 illustrated articles on everything from Dyson Spheres to Interstellar Drives to Plasma Guns and much more.
For most of its existence, the site's ads did cover most of its own operating costs. Unfortunately, I personally could never earn enough back to compensate for all the time spent researching, writing, coding, and uploading the articles for the website, so I eventually had to stop. And now I'm letting it go. I do think it's very unfortunate, as I considered the site very fun and educational, even if it did mostly have a niche audience.
For those of you who did peruse the site in any capacity, thanks, I appreciated having you as an audience and enjoyed creating it and its contents for you. The good news is that this will free up resources for me to put up an author's website. And who knows, some of Orbital vector's content may end up on there eventually.
Thanks again!
-- PL
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Thoughts About My Father
About ten days ago my father died. I wanted to hold off on writing any detailed thoughts until i was on a more even emotional keel and my family was through their initial mourning. Plus this account is mostly meant to be a fun space for fans, so I don't want to be too maudlin for too long.
The particulars are in the link below. He was 83, a husband, father, and grandfather. He and I butted heads a lot during my life. But as I myself grew older, I began seeing him less as a n avatar of stubborness and more as person and where e was coming from. He grew up during the depression, served overseas, and was very uncompromising about a lot of things, for good or ill.
He loved sports, and watching them on TV. He especially liked yelling at it whenever the Bills lost, which was a lot more often than he liked. he hunted and fished and played pinnochle with the neighbors and went to church every Sunday and loved his grandsons, my nephews, more than anything.
One thing followers of me here should know is that he was also a very big scifi and fantasy fan. He gave me my love of cartoons and animation. Well into adulthood, one thing he and I could always do together is sit and watch the classic Looney Tunes cartoons and others. when he wasn't watching sports, he watched scifi and science shows, and I guess I got that part of me from him too. So whenever you see me doing nerdy stuff on here and elsewhere, my books and artwork and games and other stuff, you probably have him at least partially to thank for it.
Okay, that will be it for now. Back to my regular stupidity with the next post.
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