{"id":104,"date":"2007-05-08T07:04:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T07:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/novaatlantis\/2007\/05\/08\/this-week-in-solar-sail-news\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:56:12","slug":"this-week-in-solar-sail-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/novaatlantis\/2007\/05\/08\/this-week-in-solar-sail-news\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in solar sail news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/action_work.gif\" alt=\"Working \" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> Working &nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/>A new solar-sail concept: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/space\/news\/2007\/05\/solarsail\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">A spinning web of electrically-charged wires.<\/a> Coolness.<\/p>\n<p>Quick catchup: We just had Golden Week here in Japan, which means a whole bunch of national holidays in a row, giving me and most other people a week off work. Whee! However, that just meant I had more time to be doing my part-time job, which is good for paying off my astonishing mortgage, but not good for my perpetually-thwarted desire to be a lazy good-for-nothing. I&#8217;m actually glad to be back at Kyushu University, as it&#8217;s more relaxing in a way than being on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>The other problem with Golden Week is, it comes just 3 weeks into the new school year. We haven&#8217;t had time to feel like we need a vacation yet, and we know there&#8217;s not another national holiday until the semester is practically over in mid-July. Weeks and weeks with no variation loom before us. The Fall semester, with one or two national holidays every month to break up the monotony, is much better.<\/p>\n<p>A bit over a week ago, I finished writing a paper titled &quot;Searching for Utopia in Melville&#8217;s Novels of Polynesia&#8211;Part I: <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Typee<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Omoo<\/span>.&quot; I submitted it to the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Journal of the Kyushu American Literature Society<\/span>, which has a 10-page limit on articles, thus the &quot;Part I.&quot; Part II will be <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Mardi<\/span>, which is longer than the other two combined. As it is, I gave <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Omoo<\/span> pretty short shrift there, but it&#8217;s a pretty boring novel compared to <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Typee<\/span> anyway. I&#8217;ll be presenting that paper at the KALS Conference this Saturday, so I&#8217;m fiddling with it, tweaking it for speech-hood. I need to make a handout, too.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, I&#8217;m revising the paper I presented last year, &quot;Babbalanja&#8217;s Rhetorical Masks in Melville&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Mardi<\/span>.&quot; Part of it treats demonic possession as a rhetorical technique, which I think would&#8217;ve given Aristotle some pause. I got confused about the journal deadline and failed to submit it in time last year, so instead I&#8217;m planning to submit it to the national American Literature Society of Japan journal. If it gets accepted, that&#8217;ll be the highest-level journal I&#8217;ve been published in so far. Next goal: International! Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwellpublishing.com\/journal.asp?ref=1525-6995&amp;amp;site=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Leviathan<\/span><\/a>. I&#8217;ve always wanted to be published in a journal that makes me think of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Farscape<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Do we have a rimshot emoticon, to put after bad jokes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Currently: Working &nbsp;]A new solar-sail concept: A spinning web of electrically-charged wires. Coolness. 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