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September 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
*Scribbling furiously taking notes for the sequel to the novel that I should finish writing...*

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October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My portable writing kit. Actually got a bit more story down before Terror Tuesday.

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October 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Today's morning research before heading into the office: magnetohydrodynamic drives.

Now, I need to see if underwater ramjets are a thing or not.

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September 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Research for the third chapter of my novel, which I hope to wrap up this weekend. I stumbled onto a treasure cave of history to write my own "secret history" around.

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All and Nothing
After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to strike the United States with aircraft borne by giant submarines.
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September 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The 1st draft of the 1st chapter of the novel is done.

It had me doing a bit more research into Australian off-shore racing, what components one needs to build a radio transmitter, and where exactly the South Pacific Gyre starts heading south.

Next chapter: world building!

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August 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Made some good progress on the novel this weekend.

Parked at the Alamo a few hours before my film last night to finish the second chapter and get a start on the third. Finished the third this morning. Currently sketching out the fourth chapter - we're gonna need a montage!

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We're Gonna Need a Sports-Training Montage - SOUTH PARK
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September 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Didn't get the chapters finished over the weekend as planned. Had a chicken and egg problem in that I hadn't quite written the timeline of my "secret history" yet, so I spent hours fleshing that out from WWII through the modern day.

Read A LOT about radar, too.

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Cavity magnetron - Wikipedia
The cavity magnetron is a high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators. A cavity magnetron generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field, while moving past a series of cavity resonators, which are small, open cavities in a metal block. Electrons pass by the cavities and cause microwaves to oscillate within, similar to the functioning of a whistle producing a tone when excited by an air stream blown past its opening. The resonant frequency of the arrangement is determined by the cavities' physical dimensions. Unlike other vacuum tubes, such as a klystron or a traveling-wave tube (TWT), the magnetron cannot function as an amplifier for increasing the intensity of an applied microwave signal; the magnetron serves solely as an electronic oscillator generating a microwave signal from direct-current electricity supplied to the vacuum tube.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today's educational programming. I'm stealing a couple of things from it for my book.

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The Rise and Fall of the Cray Supercomputer
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October 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Done with meetings for the work week. Will be back in the office tomorrow to catch up on stuff.

However, now, I think it's time for some deep dish pizza while do some research on quantum computing, so that I have my novel's MacGuffin properly fleshed out.

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Where Did the Term "MacGuffin" Come From? - Pop Culture References
In the latest Pop Culture Questions Answered, discover the origins of the popular film term, "McGuffin."
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September 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Loving this audacious concept to use the Earth itself as a transmitting antenna for extremely low frequencies (ELF).

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September 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Today's book research: the Tizard mission and radar in WWII.

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September 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM